{"id":944,"date":"2017-12-24T19:22:23","date_gmt":"2017-12-24T19:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/?p=944"},"modified":"2018-07-24T19:27:41","modified_gmt":"2018-07-24T19:27:41","slug":"wrestling-mid-season-update-2017-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/2017\/12\/24\/wrestling-mid-season-update-2017-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrestling Mid-Season Update 2017\/18"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>By Jessica Yatvitskiy &#8217;21<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Pingry wrestling season began on November 20th. The team consists of 28 members and has \u201cmore kids on the team than ever,\u201d said captain Aidan Dillon (VI). \u201cWe\u2019ll have almost all the\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">weight-classes filled, which helps immensely with our dual-meet schedule,\u201d said Head Coach<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">George Sullivan, who has coached Pingry wrestling since 2014. He is aided by Coaches Joseph\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Forte, Reid Prichett, and William Lagarde. Mr. Sullivan said he chose to coach Pingry wrestling\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">because \u201c[he has] a unique opportunity to build a great program.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The wrestling team\u2019s first scrimmage was on December 6 against the Peddie School, and its first true meet is on December 16. \u201cThe team\u2019s goal for this season is to win 15 matches and send at least one wrestler to states,\u201d Mr. George Sullivan said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This year\u2019s captain is Aidan Dillon, who has had 13 years of wrestling experience. Aidan said,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI\u2019m super optimistic about this season. We should have the best team that Pingry has had in my time here. We\u2019ll have the best chance we\u2019ve ever had to win a conference championship.\u201d The wrestling team had a great season last winter. \u201cThe team sent our first wrestler in a decade to the New Jersey state wrestling tournament, Frankie Dillon \u201817. We had four regional qualifiers: Aidan Dillon, Frankie Dillon, Tommy Tarantino \u201817, and Brandon Spellman (V),\u201d Coach Sullivan said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mr. Sullivan expresses high hopes for this season: \u201cWith new freshmen joining the strong team,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">the future is bright. We have a talented and hard-working team that has been improving for\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">several years, and I can\u2019t wait to see them perform.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jessica Yatvitskiy &#8217;21 The Pingry wrestling season began on November 20th. The team consists of 28 members and has \u201cmore kids on the team than ever,\u201d said captain Aidan Dillon (VI). \u201cWe\u2019ll have almost all the\u00a0weight-classes filled, which helps immensely with our dual-meet schedule,\u201d said Head Coach George Sullivan, who has coached Pingry wrestling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[51,81],"class_list":["post-944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-wrestling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=944"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":946,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944\/revisions\/946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}