{"id":706,"date":"2013-02-28T15:27:12","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T15:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/?p=706"},"modified":"2013-02-28T15:27:12","modified_gmt":"2013-02-28T15:27:12","slug":"athletes-of-the-week-feb-25th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/2013\/02\/28\/athletes-of-the-week-feb-25th\/","title":{"rendered":"Athletes of the Week &#8211; Feb. 25th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/files\/2013\/02\/wongDSC_0582.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-707\" src=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/files\/2013\/02\/wongDSC_0582.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"182\" \/><\/a>Alysha Wong \u201814<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Last Saturday, Alysha won the Fifth Flight at the New England Class C Squash Championships. After winning the first match easily, Alysha won tough semi-finals (11-8, 7-11, 12-10 and 11-5) and then rallied to win the finals (5-11, 11-6, 11-8 and 11-9).\u00a0 Having never played two matches in a day, Alysha showed great resilience and concentration to prevail three times in little more than four hours.\u00a0 Throughout the season Alysha has worked hard to improve her squash game and her determined attitude and great energy helped her to finish the season in fine form.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/files\/2013\/02\/kioussisDSC_0352.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-708\" src=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/files\/2013\/02\/kioussisDSC_0352.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"165\" \/><\/a>Nick Kioussis \u201813<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Last week Nick Kioussis arrived at The National Prep Wrestling Tournament as an unseeded wrestler. Nick finished 2-2 in the tournament including a pinning an opponent in 38 seconds. That record enabled Nick to finish in the top 16 nationally in his weight class and helped Williston place 70<sup>th<\/sup> out of 121 teams.\u00a0 His perseverance and determination speaks volumes to Nick\u2019s toughness and competitive nature. Nick has shown outstanding senior leadership throughout the entire winter season through his passion for the sport and exemplary teamwork.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Caroline Borden \u201816<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Caroline approaches the game of squash with persistence and a real desire to improve her game. Playing at the number one spot, Caroline\u2019s quickness on the court and smart and consistent ball placement gave her the win against Deerfield in her last match of the season. Her can-do positive attitude has been a valuable asset both on and off the court.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alysha Wong \u201814 Last Saturday, Alysha won the Fifth Flight at the New England Class C Squash Championships. After winning the first match easily, Alysha won tough semi-finals (11-8, 7-11, 12-10 and 11-5) and then rallied to win the finals (5-11, 11-6, 11-8 and 11-9).\u00a0 Having never played two matches in a day, Alysha showed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/2013\/02\/28\/athletes-of-the-week-feb-25th\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Athletes of the Week &#8211; Feb. 25th<\/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-706","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\/706"}],"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=706"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":710,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions\/710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}