{"id":2098,"date":"2017-03-03T20:32:38","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T20:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.obumagazine.com\/?p=2098"},"modified":"2017-05-04T19:46:06","modified_gmt":"2017-05-04T19:46:06","slug":"cross-country-finishes-top-ten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.okbu.edu\/obumagazine\/cross-country-finishes-top-ten\/","title":{"rendered":"Cross Country Finishes Top Ten"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">The cross country team finished the season ranked seventh nationally and placed sixth in the NAIA Cross Country National Championships in Lawrence, Kansas. OBU improved on last year\u2019s seventh-place finish and bettered its team time from the NAIA preview on the same course earlier this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Hannah Fields earned a second consecutive national runner-up finish, covering the five kilometer course in 17:34.40. She earned a third All-America honor, becoming the second Lady Bison to do so, joining four-time All-American Brandy Bratton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">\u201cIn this sport, everyone judges you on one race,\u201d said OBU assistant track and field coach Matt Kennedy. \u201cI had the privilege of being with this team all season. I know their heart and how hard they worked. I\u2019m proud of the effort they put into this.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cross country team finished the season ranked seventh nationally and placed sixth in the NAIA Cross Country National Championships in Lawrence, Kansas. OBU improved on last year\u2019s seventh-place finish and bettered its team time from the NAIA preview on the same course earlier this season. Hannah Fields earned a second consecutive national runner-up finish, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2588,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":""},"categories":[139,88],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.okbu.edu\/obumagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/xc-for-mag.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7BMz3-xQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okbu.edu\/obumagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okbu.edu\/obumagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okbu.edu\/obumagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okbu.edu\/obumagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okbu.edu\/obumagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.okbu.edu\/obumagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2099,"href":"https:\/\/www.okbu.edu\/obumagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098\/revisions\/2099"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okbu.edu\/obumagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okbu.edu\/obumagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okbu.edu\/obumagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okbu.edu\/obumagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}