{"id":1592,"date":"2015-01-16T15:37:12","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T15:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/?p=1592"},"modified":"2015-01-16T15:37:12","modified_gmt":"2015-01-16T15:37:12","slug":"athletes-of-the-week-january-12th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/2015\/01\/16\/athletes-of-the-week-january-12th\/","title":{"rendered":"Athletes of the Week &#8211; January 12th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/files\/2015\/01\/atkins.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1593\" src=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/files\/2015\/01\/atkins.jpg\" alt=\"atkins\" width=\"250\" height=\"154\" \/><\/a><strong>Sam Atkins \u201815<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sam had a great weekend for the varsity wrestling team this past weekend as the Wildcats traveled to Pomfret to compete in their first tri-match since the winter break. Sam had perfect 3-0 record on the day. In the Pomfret match Sam\u2019s leadership, competitiveness, and team first mentality was evident as he chose to wrestle up a weight class, eventually pinning his opponent and winning the dual meet for Williston.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hannah King \u201815<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hannah\u2019s play on Saturday for the girls\u2019 varsity squash team made the crucial difference in the team\u2019s 4-3 win over Ethel Walker School.\u00a0 Hannah and her opponent played 95 points.\u00a0 Hannah won in exciting fashion winning the last two points to take the fifth game 11-9, insuring a Wildcat team victory.\u00a0Hannah\u2019s success is due to her tremendous work ethic. Hannah cares about learning and responds well to coaching, her attitude sets a great example for the younger girls on the team.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Oscar DeFrancis \u201820<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Oscar has had a spectacular year for the jv wrestling team. As a 7th grader he has compiled an 8-0 record with some of those wins coming with the varsity team. Oscar has 5 pins and 3 wins by points. As the season has progressed Oscar has developed into a natural leader on the team, helping his fellow teammates learn new moves and motivating and cheering them on during their own matches. Oscar\u2019s future as a Wildcat wrestler is very bright.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Atkins \u201815 Sam had a great weekend for the varsity wrestling team this past weekend as the Wildcats traveled to Pomfret to compete in their first tri-match since the winter break. Sam had perfect 3-0 record on the day. In the Pomfret match Sam\u2019s leadership, competitiveness, and team first mentality was evident as he &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/2015\/01\/16\/athletes-of-the-week-january-12th\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Athletes of the Week &#8211; January 12th<\/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-1592","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\/1592"}],"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=1592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1594,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592\/revisions\/1594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}