{"id":1985,"date":"2015-08-20T20:34:24","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T20:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/?p=1985"},"modified":"2015-08-20T21:36:01","modified_gmt":"2015-08-20T21:36:01","slug":"true-competitor-morgan-fisher-16-takes-on-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/2015\/08\/20\/true-competitor-morgan-fisher-16-takes-on-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;True Competitor&#8217; Morgan Fisher &#8217;16 Takes on Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1984\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1984\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/files\/2015\/08\/16567649079_e62692bc72_z.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1984\" src=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/files\/2015\/08\/16567649079_e62692bc72_z-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Morgan Fisher pictured in net in a girls varsity hockey game vs. St. Paul's. Photo by Jay Grant\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/files\/2015\/08\/16567649079_e62692bc72_z-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/files\/2015\/08\/16567649079_e62692bc72_z-250x166.jpg 250w, https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/files\/2015\/08\/16567649079_e62692bc72_z.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1984\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Morgan Fisher pictured in net in a girls varsity hockey game vs. St. Paul&#8217;s. Photo by Jay Grant<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A true competitor who her coach says has established herself as one of the top goalies in the New England prep school circuit will be taking to the ice against Canada this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Morgan Fisher \u201916 was chosen as one of 23 players on the U-18 National Team after distinguishing herself at the 2015 USA Hockey Women&#8217;s National Festival, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usawomenshockey.com\/news_article\/show\/544614?referrer_id=2025643\">USA Hockey website.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ms. Fisher, a goaltender, will represent the United States in a series against Canada from August 19-23 in Lake Placid, New York.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am extremely proud of this accomplishment to earn a spot and compete at this level,\u201d her coach, Christa Talbot, noted in an email after hearing the news. \u201cShe is a fierce competitor and has become much more confident in the net over the last year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Fisher earned eight shutouts and allowed 18 goals in 25 games at Williston Northampton last season. She attended the inaugural US Women\u2019s Team Goaltending Development Camp in Blaine, MN.<\/p>\n<p>Coach Talbot said she was proud of \u201cthe person and player that Morgan has become over the past year,\u201d and noted that Ms. Fisher\u2019s focus on off-ice training had made her an even better goaltender.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe took everything that she learned and all the feedback that she received and has implemented it into her game,\u201d Ms. Talbot said. \u201cShe\u2019s not taking anything for granted.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A true competitor who her coach says has established herself as one of the top goalies in the New England prep school circuit will be taking to the ice against Canada this weekend. Morgan Fisher \u201916 was chosen as one of 23 players on the U-18 National Team after distinguishing herself at the 2015 USA &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/2015\/08\/20\/true-competitor-morgan-fisher-16-takes-on-canada\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8216;True Competitor&#8217; Morgan Fisher &#8217;16 Takes on Canada<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"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-1985","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\/1985"}],"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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1985"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1989,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985\/revisions\/1989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}