{"id":69945,"date":"2021-11-16T03:30:35","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T07:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/?p=69945"},"modified":"2021-11-17T09:07:23","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T13:07:23","slug":"cross-country-freshman-punches-ticket-to-ncaa-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/11_16_2021\/cross-country-freshman-punches-ticket-to-ncaa-championships","title":{"rendered":"Cross Country Freshman Punches Ticket to NCAA Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_69957\" style=\"width: 247px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Joy-Chirchir.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-69957\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-69957\" src=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Joy-Chirchir-237x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"237\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Joy-Chirchir-237x300.jpg 237w, https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Joy-Chirchir.jpg 473w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 237px) 100vw, 237px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-69957\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chirchir<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Freshman\u00a0Joy Chirchir\u00a0will represent the Toledo women&#8217;s cross country program in the NCAA Championships on Saturday, Nov. 20, in Tallahassee, Fla.<\/p>\n<p>At Friday&#8217;s NCAA Regional, Chirchir finished in 21st place with a time of 20:22.5 to help the Rockets take seventh in the team standings.<\/p>\n<p>In the Mid-American Conference Championships, Chirchir crossed the finish line first and helped Toledo capture the 2021 MAC Women&#8217;s Cross Country Championship title. Chirchir finished the 6K with a time of 20:23.2 and was named MAC Freshman of the Year as well as being a First-Team All-MAC selection.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/11_16_2021\/cross-country-freshman-punches-ticket-to-ncaa-championships\"><img width=\"120\" height=\"120\" src=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Joy_Chirchir-SIDE-and-STORY-150x150.jpg\" class=\"alignright tfe wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a><p>Joy Chirchir placed 21st at the NCAA Regionals on Friday to land a spot in the NCAA Championships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":886,"featured_media":69946,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,56,1,7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69945"}],"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\/886"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69945"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69958,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69945\/revisions\/69958"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}