{"id":109529,"date":"2016-10-21T07:30:14","date_gmt":"2016-10-21T12:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=109529"},"modified":"2016-10-21T11:04:47","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T16:04:47","slug":"former-uj-mens-basketball-player-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=109529","title":{"rendered":"Former UJ men&#8217;s basketball player, passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jamestown\u00a0\u00a0 (CSi)\u00a0 The University of Jamestown reports that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jimmieathletics.com\/SIDHelp\/splashPage\/2.php\">Cedric D. Smith<\/a>, a recent member of the Jimmie men&#8217;s basketball team, passed away Thursday at Jamestown Regional Medical Center, according to a press release issued by the university.<\/p>\n<p>The UJ news release states that his cause of death was not known.<\/p>\n<p>Jimmies Head Basketball Coach Danny Neville says, &#8220;Obviously, everyone is shocked, he was part of our family.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The university held a prayer service Thursday night on campus at Voorhees Chapel that was attended by many students, athletes and coaches.<\/p>\n<p>Smith attended the University of Jamestown from fall 2014 through spring 2016, playing for the Jimmies during the 2014-2015 season. The 6-foot-7 forward, whose hometown was Gary, Ind., helped the Jimmies to a 20-9 record and the North Star Athletic Association regular season championship as a senior that season.<\/p>\n<p>A transfer from Benedictine-Springfield (Ill.), Smith earned All-NSAA honors averaging 9.5 points and 5.3 rebounds per game for the Jimmies under former University of Jamestown head coach Alan Magnani.<\/p>\n<p>Smith continued his association with the team as a student assistant during the 2015-16 season under current coach Neville.<\/p>\n<p>The Jimmies canceled practice Thursday, as coach Neville added, &#8220;We canceled practice.<\/p>\n<p>We just have to stay together. He was a basketball guy. It&#8217;s just really tough.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamestown\u00a0\u00a0 (CSi)\u00a0 The University of Jamestown reports that Cedric D. Smith, a recent member of the Jimmie men&#8217;s basketball team, passed away Thursday at Jamestown Regional Medical Center, according to a press release issued by the university. The UJ news release states that his cause of death was not known. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":69081,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jamestown","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109529"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109551,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109529\/revisions\/109551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/69081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}