{"id":149241,"date":"2018-07-13T10:01:18","date_gmt":"2018-07-13T15:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=149241"},"modified":"2018-07-16T09:33:11","modified_gmt":"2018-07-16T14:33:11","slug":"vcsu-womens-basketball-adds-athletes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=149241","title":{"rendered":"VCSU Women&#8217;s Basketball adds athletes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-24632\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/vcsuSports-small-300x202.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/vcsuSports-small-300x202.png 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/vcsuSports-small-259x175.png 259w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/vcsuSports-small.png 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vcsuvikings.com\/index\">VCSUVikings<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; VCSU women\u2019s basketball coach\u00a0Vanessa Keeler Johnson\u00a0has announced the\u00a0addition of five student athletes for the 2018-19 season.<\/p>\n<p>The group includes two transfers, two incoming freshmen and one student-athlete already on campus. All have signed letters of intent to continue their education at VCSU and play basketball for the Vikings. They will join a group of 10 returning players from last year\u2019s squad that posted a 25-5 record and advanced to the NAIA National Tournament.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span class=\"s1\">We are very excited about this group\u2019s potential,\u201d said Keeler-Johnson. \u201cWe have a good mix of true freshmen and players with experience at the next level. This group has proven to be successful on and off the court, and Viking fans will enjoy watching them over the next few years.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Vikings are coming off a school-record 25 wins last season in Keeler-Johnson\u2019s first year as head coach. VCSU won the NSAA Tournament Championship for the first time and advanced to the NAIA National Tournament for the second straight season.<\/p>\n<p>Valley City State University is a member of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) and a conference member of the North Star Athletic Association.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VCSUVikings\u00a0&#8211; VCSU women\u2019s basketball coach\u00a0Vanessa Keeler Johnson\u00a0has announced the\u00a0addition of five student athletes for the 2018-19 season. The group includes two transfers, two incoming freshmen and one student-athlete already on campus. All have signed letters of intent to continue their education at VCSU and play basketball for the Vikings. They [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":24632,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149241","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\/149241","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=149241"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149392,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149241\/revisions\/149392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}