{"id":252650,"date":"2022-07-23T19:40:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-24T00:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=252650"},"modified":"2022-07-23T19:49:53","modified_gmt":"2022-07-24T00:49:53","slug":"naia-uj-agree-to-host-womens-wrestling-tournament-thru-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=252650","title":{"rendered":"NAIA, UJ agree to host Women&#8217;s Wrestling  thru 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Kansas City Mo. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jimmiepride.com\/article\/6624\">(jimmiepride.com<\/a>) \u2013 <\/strong>The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) announced on Wednesday that it has come to terms with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jimmiepride.com\/\">Jamestown (N.D.)<\/a>&nbsp;to extend its contract for two years (through 2024) as the host the NAIA Women\u2019s Wrestling National Championship as the event transitions from Invitational status. The NAIA Women\u2019s Wrestling Invitational has been hosted by Jamestown since its inception in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe University of Jamestown is excited to continue to be the home of the NAIA Women\u2019s Wrestling postseason,\u201d said UJ Athletic Director Austin Hieb.&nbsp;\u201cThis year is extra special as it will be the first ever NAIA Women\u2019s Wrestling National Championships. We can\u2019t wait for March!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With three years under its belt as the host, Jamestown and Jimmies\u2019 Athletics displayed significant experience with the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe NAIA is happy to continue to call Jamestown, N.D. home to women\u2019s wrestling in the NAIA\u201d said Austin Bennett, NAIA Director of Championships. \u201cThe experience the institution brings with this event is critical as the inaugural championship will be held this winter. There is no one better suited to host that event and we are excited to crown our first Women\u2019s Wrestling National Champions there.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Harold Newman Arena will again be the site for the event.&nbsp; The $16 million building opened September 29, 2017. The 61,000 square foot facility features a private meeting room overlooking the floor, which combined with the lobby, can seat 350 people.&nbsp; There are 8 locker rooms, two concession stands, a game day athletic training room and conference room<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kansas City Mo. (jimmiepride.com) \u2013 The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) announced on Wednesday that it has come to terms with&nbsp;Jamestown (N.D.)&nbsp;to extend its contract for two years (through 2024) as the host the NAIA Women\u2019s Wrestling National Championship as the event transitions from Invitational status. The NAIA Women\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":252653,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252650","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\/252650","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=252650"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252655,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252650\/revisions\/252655"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/252653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=252650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=252650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=252650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}