{"id":1085,"date":"2013-12-10T15:16:40","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T15:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/?p=1085"},"modified":"2013-12-10T15:17:29","modified_gmt":"2013-12-10T15:17:29","slug":"athletes-of-the-week-december-2nd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/2013\/12\/10\/athletes-of-the-week-december-2nd\/","title":{"rendered":"Athletes of the Week &#8211; December 2nd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/files\/2013\/12\/BARRA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1088\" alt=\"BARRA\" src=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/files\/2013\/12\/BARRA-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Alicia Barry \u201814<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alicia had an assist on the game tying goal in the team\u2019s season opener against Millbrook School.\u00a0 Alicia showed great composure defensively and definitely got the offense started by skating the puck into the offensive zone.\u00a0 Her strength, confidence and talent was apparent every time she was on the ice against Millbrook.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/files\/2013\/12\/LIZ.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1090\" alt=\"LIZ\" src=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/files\/2013\/12\/LIZ-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Kevin Li \u201816<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kevin sealed the victory for boys varsity squash in the deciding match against St. Mark\u2019s on Wednesday in the team\u2019s season opener. After winning game one, then losing games two and three he had to win games four and five to give Williston the win. At the Hopkins Tournament on Saturday Kevin competed again at number five against three other schools and won two of the matches, helping Williston place 4th place out of eight teams.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/files\/2013\/12\/ANE.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1087\" alt=\"ANE\" src=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/files\/2013\/12\/ANE-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Erin An \u201815<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Erin competed in her first wrestling match and had one of the most thrilling and inspirational matches of the day as she came from behind to beat her Hopkins opponent 12-6. Everyone in attendance was riveted as she scored time and again and sealed her victory. To be able to step into the varsity lineup and win such a big match is awesome. She used a winning smile along with a lot of physical and mental toughness to go 3-0 on her very first day of wrestling matches!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/files\/2013\/12\/GRIFJ.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1089\" alt=\"GRIFJ\" src=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/files\/2013\/12\/GRIFJ-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>James Griffin &#8217;16<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>James has worked extremely hard all season to catch up to some of his more experienced teammates. He won a thrilling victory over a seasoned opponent from Suffield by pin, and was a perfect 3-0 on his very first day of competition. James showed perseverance and a positive attitude. Those attributes define his work all season!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alicia Barry \u201814 Alicia had an assist on the game tying goal in the team\u2019s season opener against Millbrook School.\u00a0 Alicia showed great composure defensively and definitely got the offense started by skating the puck into the offensive zone.\u00a0 Her strength, confidence and talent was apparent every time she was on the ice against Millbrook. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/2013\/12\/10\/athletes-of-the-week-december-2nd\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Athletes of the Week &#8211; December 2nd<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-athletics-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1085"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1093,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085\/revisions\/1093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}