{"id":149111,"date":"2018-07-12T07:41:53","date_gmt":"2018-07-12T12:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=149111"},"modified":"2018-07-12T09:03:06","modified_gmt":"2018-07-12T14:03:06","slug":"johnson-accepts-position-at-tulane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=149111","title":{"rendered":"Johnson accepts position at Tulane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-149112\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Johnson.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"161\" height=\"161\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Johnson.jpg 161w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Johnson-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 161px) 100vw, 161px\" \/>Valley City, ND.\u00a0 (VCSUVikings.com)- VCSU athletic director Jill DeVries announced Wednesday that cross country and track and field\u00a0coach\u00a0<strong>Chris Johnson<\/strong>\u00a0has resigned to take a position at Tulane University.<\/p>\n<p>DeVries said a search for his replacement at VCSU will begin immediately.<\/p>\n<p>DeVries says, \u00a0\u201cWe want to thank Chris for the job he did as the head coach of Viking cross country and track and field, and we wish him the very best at Tulane.\u00a0 The program is in great shape and the future is bright for VCSU\u00a0track and cross country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Johnson had been head coach of VCSU\u2019s cross country and track and field programs for the past three seasons. Under his direction, the rosters for both programs have grown significantly and the teams have become competitive at the conference and national levels.\u00a0The VCSU women\u2019s program had its first ever national champion during Johnson\u2019s tenure as he coached Seri Geisler to national titles in the women\u2019s javelin in both 2016 and 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valley City, ND.\u00a0 (VCSUVikings.com)- VCSU athletic director Jill DeVries announced Wednesday that cross country and track and field\u00a0coach\u00a0Chris Johnson\u00a0has resigned to take a position at Tulane University. DeVries said a search for his replacement at VCSU will begin immediately. DeVries says, \u00a0\u201cWe want to thank Chris for the job he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":149112,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149111","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=149111"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149121,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149111\/revisions\/149121"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/149112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}