{"id":895,"date":"2013-05-08T14:20:50","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T14:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/?p=895"},"modified":"2013-05-08T14:20:50","modified_gmt":"2013-05-08T14:20:50","slug":"athletes-of-the-week-may-6th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/2013\/05\/08\/athletes-of-the-week-may-6th\/","title":{"rendered":"Athletes of the Week &#8211; May 6th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/files\/2013\/05\/thomas8711548862_cc7dfe09d0_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-896\" src=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/files\/2013\/05\/thomas8711548862_cc7dfe09d0_o.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/files\/2013\/05\/thomas8711548862_cc7dfe09d0_o.jpg 300w, https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/files\/2013\/05\/thomas8711548862_cc7dfe09d0_o-212x300.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a>Gabby Thomas \u201815<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speedster Gabby Thomas, has been impressing teammates and coaches with her remarkable speed and determination through the track season. In the team\u2019s most recent meets against Kingswood-Oxford, Westminster, and Hopkins Gabby set a new school record in the long jump with a leap of 17\u2019 7.5\u201d. This jump broke the previous mark set by Annie Huyler \u201908 in 2007.\u00a0 In the same week, Gabby also recorded a new record in the triple jump with a leap of 35\u2019 11.75\u201d, which eclipsed her own record set last year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/files\/2013\/05\/waltersDSC_0030.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-897\" src=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/files\/2013\/05\/waltersDSC_0030.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/files\/2013\/05\/waltersDSC_0030.jpg 300w, https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/files\/2013\/05\/waltersDSC_0030-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/files\/2013\/05\/waltersDSC_0030-297x300.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a>Michael Walters \u201814<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Last week junior Michael broke the school record for the 200 meter dash. Michael\u2019s time of 22.3 seconds eclipsed the previous record of 22.7 sec. set by Sydney Baptista in 2005. As a first year student at Williston, Michael has been an outstanding addition to this year\u2019s track team, always arriving with a smile on his face and willingness to work to work hard to reach his and the team\u2019s goals.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mika Sovjani \u201818<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>First year lacrosse player, Mika Sovjani has picked up the game quickly. Mika\u00a0scored a goal in last week\u2019s match up against Rectory and is quickly becoming a skilled, fast, and versatile player! She is always arriving to practice and games with a positive attitude and an eagerness to learn.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gabby Thomas \u201815 Speedster Gabby Thomas, has been impressing teammates and coaches with her remarkable speed and determination through the track season. In the team\u2019s most recent meets against Kingswood-Oxford, Westminster, and Hopkins Gabby set a new school record in the long jump with a leap of 17\u2019 7.5\u201d. This jump broke the previous mark &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/2013\/05\/08\/athletes-of-the-week-may-6th\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Athletes of the Week &#8211; May 6th<\/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-895","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\/895"}],"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=895"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":900,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895\/revisions\/900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}