{"id":3325,"date":"2017-04-12T17:33:35","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T17:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/?p=3325"},"modified":"2017-04-12T18:57:49","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T18:57:49","slug":"athletes-of-the-week-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/2017\/04\/12\/athletes-of-the-week-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Athletes of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">Mason Balch &#8217;18- Boys Varsity Lacrosse<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/files\/2017\/04\/mason.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3326\" src=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/files\/2017\/04\/mason.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"177\" height=\"188\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center\"><span class=\"s1\">Mason had a fantastic week for the Wildcats varsity lacrosse team. On Wednesday, he contributed 4 goals and 3 assists in a narrow loss to Albany Academy. His great play continued on Saturday as he finished the day with 3 goals and 5 assists in a league-opening win against Gunnery. His 7 goals and 8 assists lead the team in both categories. Mason&#8217;s team first mentality and tireless effort to perfect his craft provides a great example for everyone on the team!<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">Fiona Bundy &#8217;18 \u2013 Girls Varsity Lacrosse<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/files\/2017\/04\/fiona.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3327\" src=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/files\/2017\/04\/fiona.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"177\" height=\"188\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\" style=\"text-align: center\"><span class=\"s1\">Fiona has had a great start to the season for the Wildcats. She has played strong in all 3 games and has been a big part of the team&#8217;s 3-0 start to the season.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>In an exciting 12-11 win over Hotchkiss on Wednesday, she scored with 12 seconds to go to secure the win for the Wildcats. Fiona has scored 11 goals in the teams first 3 games this season and has played hard on both ends of the field. Fiona works tremendously hard, on and off the field, to better herself and her teammates.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Toyo Sato &#8217;20- Boys JV Tennis.<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/files\/2017\/04\/toyo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3328\" src=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/files\/2017\/04\/toyo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"177\" height=\"188\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center\"><span class=\"s1\">Toyo teamed with Ethan Huang as the number 2 doubles team against Eaglebrook and together were able to notch the first victory of the season for the team 6-4. His strong effort and positive attitude have been part of a promising start for our young squad.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>He has been a terrific leader by example!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">Lydia Pollard &#8217;18 -Girls JV Lacrosse<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/files\/2017\/04\/lydia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3329\" src=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/files\/2017\/04\/lydia.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"167\" height=\"177\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\" style=\"text-align: center\"><span class=\"s1\"> Lydia has emerged as a leader for the Wildcats early this spring. On Saturday, against Loomis Chaffee, she took it upon herself to turn the momentum in the second half.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>With a combination of skill, athletic maturity, and drive, Lydia helped the team settle into the attack strategy and quickly took advantage of every opportunity to score.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>She scored an impressive four goals in addition to recording two assists. Lydia will be looked to as a team leader throughout the season for the Wildcats.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mason Balch &#8217;18- Boys Varsity Lacrosse Mason had a fantastic week for the Wildcats varsity lacrosse team. On Wednesday, he contributed 4 goals and 3 assists in a narrow loss to Albany Academy. His great play continued on Saturday as he finished the day with 3 goals and 5 assists in a league-opening win against &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/2017\/04\/12\/athletes-of-the-week-14\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Athletes of the Week<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":113,"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":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-athletes-of-the-week"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3325"}],"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\/113"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3325"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3336,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3325\/revisions\/3336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}