{"id":252186,"date":"2022-07-19T09:20:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T14:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=252186"},"modified":"2022-07-19T11:31:55","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T16:31:55","slug":"ujs-jackman-signs-with-swedish-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=252186","title":{"rendered":"UJ&#8217;s Jackman signs with Swedish pro club"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Floby, Sweden (<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/Jimmiepride.com\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"Jimmiepride.com\" target=\"_blank\">UJ<\/a>)  \u2013  Two time NAIA All American Samuel Jackman became the first UJ men\u2019s volleyball player to sign a professional contract, inking a deal with Swedish first division club Floby VK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Floby took third in the 2022 season, their highest placing since capturing the league title in 1997.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAfter the previous opposite left for another club, they looked to fill that point-scoring spot and I\u2019m glad they chose me,\u201d Jackman said.&nbsp;\u201cEver since I started my volleyball journey in my junior year of high school, I have worked as hard as possible to reach the professional stage.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2021-22 Swedish regular season consisted of 20 matches and went from September 25-March 6. The playoffs, played in a best out of five format, went from March 10-April 26. Floby lost 3-0 in the semifinals to eventual league champion Hylte\/Halmstad VBK, then defeated&nbsp;Vingakers VK 2-0 in the third place match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information on the club, visit&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flobyvk.se\/\"><strong>http:\/\/www.flobyvk.se\/<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Floby, Sweden (UJ) \u2013 Two time NAIA All American Samuel Jackman became the first UJ men\u2019s volleyball player to sign a professional contract, inking a deal with Swedish first division club Floby VK. Floby took third in the 2022 season, their highest placing since capturing the league title in 1997. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":252188,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252186","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\/252186","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=252186"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252197,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252186\/revisions\/252197"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/252188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=252186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=252186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=252186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}