{"id":6310,"date":"2010-05-11T05:53:41","date_gmt":"2010-05-11T10:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utnews.utoledo.edu\/?p=6310"},"modified":"2010-05-10T08:58:04","modified_gmt":"2010-05-10T13:58:04","slug":"two-rockets-qualify-for-usa-junior-track-and-field-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/05_11_2010\/two-rockets-qualify-for-usa-junior-track-and-field-championships","title":{"rendered":"Two Rockets qualify for USA Junior Track and Field Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_6311\" style=\"width: 470px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/myut-track-stars.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6311\" src=\"http:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/myut-track-stars.jpg\" alt=\"Douglas, left, and Ramsay\" title=\"myut-track-stars\" width=\"460\" height=\"250\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/myut-track-stars.jpg 460w, https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/myut-track-stars-300x163.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6311\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Douglas, left, and Ramsay<\/p><\/div>Freshmen Kiah Douglas and Devyn Ramsay have qualified for the 2010 USA Junior Track and Field Championships. <\/p>\n<p>The championships for athletes younger than 20 will take place Wednesday through Sunday, June 23-27, at Drake Stadium in Des Moines, Iowa.<\/p>\n<p>Douglas qualified in the long jump at 19-08.00 and is ranked second in the Mid-American Conference (MAC) in that event. Ramsay qualified in the 5000-meter run with her time of 17:39 and is ranked ninth in the MAC in that event.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is a great sign for our program&#8217;s future when we are signing athletes that are ranked as some of the top freshmen in the country,&#8221; Kevin Hadsell, UT head coach of track and field, said.<\/p>\n<p>The duo, along with the rest of the Rockets, will first challenge for the MAC Championships, which will take place Thursday through Saturday, May 13-15, at the University at Buffalo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freshmen Kiah Douglas and Devyn Ramsay will compete in the long jump and 5000-meter run, respectively, at the 2010 USA Junior Track and Field Championships. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6310"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}