{"id":119806,"date":"2017-04-17T11:18:46","date_gmt":"2017-04-17T16:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=119806"},"modified":"2017-04-18T10:43:20","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T15:43:20","slug":"johnson-set-a-new-tf-school-record-on-way-to-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=119806","title":{"rendered":"Johnson sets T&#038;F school record on way to nationals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/JohnsonMegan-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-119887\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/JohnsonMegan-1-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/JohnsonMegan-1-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/JohnsonMegan-1-431x291.jpg 431w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/JohnsonMegan-1-260x175.jpg 260w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/JohnsonMegan-1.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Dickinson (VCSU Mark Potts) \u2013 Valley City State junior\u00a0Megan Johnson\u00a0set a new school record and punched her ticket to nationals on Friday as the Valley City State track &amp; field team competed at the Dickinson State Blue Hawk Games.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson recorded a leap of 5.57 meters (18 feet, 3.25 inches) in the women\u2019s long jump, breaking the old VCSU record set by Danielle Olson (5.47 meters\/17 feet, 11.5 inches) in 1998. Johnson\u2019s mark also meets the NAIA National Qualifying \u2018B\u2019 Standard, earning her a spot at the NAIA National Championships in May.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson is the third Viking to qualify for nationals, joining\u00a0Seri Geisler\u00a0(women\u2019s shot put, javelin) and\u00a0Mackenzie Huber\u00a0(women\u2019s shot put).<\/p>\n<p>Johnson placed third in both the long jump and triple jump on Friday, finishing behind only a pair of jumpers from the University of Mary. Those were two of 13 Top 5 finishes the Vikings had on the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dickinson (VCSU Mark Potts) \u2013 Valley City State junior\u00a0Megan Johnson\u00a0set a new school record and punched her ticket to nationals on Friday as the Valley City State track &amp; field team competed at the Dickinson State Blue Hawk Games. Johnson recorded a leap of 5.57 meters (18 feet, 3.25 inches) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":119887,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119806"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119888,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119806\/revisions\/119888"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/119887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}