{"id":133491,"date":"2017-11-22T09:52:53","date_gmt":"2017-11-22T15:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=133491"},"modified":"2017-11-22T12:45:10","modified_gmt":"2017-11-22T18:45:10","slug":"uj-athletic-directors-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=133491","title":{"rendered":"Univ Jamestown Athletic Director’s Report"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"From the Desk of Sean Johnson- University of Jamestown Director of Athletics<\/span><\/p>\n

Happy Thanksgiving Jimmie fans!<\/span><\/p>\n

Hope you are planning for a great holiday weekend.<\/span><\/p>\n

While some teams have wrapped up their seasons, others will be competing this weekend while others are enjoying a break.<\/span><\/p>\n

Your nationally ranked women\u2019s basketball team kicked off the holiday week by picking up a big road win againist NCAA Division 2 foe Minot State 80-77.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Jimmies hit the road and travel to Florida where they will face Florida Memorial and Keiser of the Sun Conference Friday and Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n

After Tuesday\u2019s home game the Jimmies will travel to Arizona to take on Arizona Christian and Benedictine University at Mesa Friday and Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Jimmie volleyball team received great news last week as they received an automatic berth to the NAIA national tournament in Sioux City for the second consecutive year.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now that the opening round has been played, the Jimmies received their pool play assignments and will face Cornerstone (Mich.), Lindsey Wilson (Ky.) and Texas Wesleyan next week.<\/span><\/p>\n

The #19 ranked Jimmies face #16 Cornerstone, Monday at 11:00 a.m., #1 ranked and undefeated Lindsey Wilson, Tuesday at 10:00 a.m. and Texas Wesleyan Wednesday at 10:00 a.m.<\/span><\/p>\n

The top two teams in each pool advance to the round of 16 next Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n

Last year the Jimmies won their first ever NAIA national tournament match and just missed out on a trip to the round of 16, falling in a one-set tiebreaker.<\/span><\/p>\n

Jon Hegerle was named the NSAA Coach of the Year while Haley Glasoe, Morgan Hensch and Elise Peterson earned first team All-NSAA honors.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Jimmie women\u2019s soccer team just missed out on a chance to go to nationals, falling 3-1 in the title match of the Associated of Independent Institutions Tournament.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Jimmies set a school record for most wins in a season (14), won the NSAA regular season title with a perfect 4-0 record while Connie Contreras was named the Offensive Player of the Year and Kristin Breaux was named Newcomer of the Year. Nick Becker earned NSAA Coach of the Year honors.<\/span><\/p>\n

On the men\u2019s side, Henrique Lucena-Pires, Charlie Foster and Ben Matthews were named first team All-NSAA.<\/span><\/p>\n

The cross country season concluded with Matt Young and Amber Posner advancing to the NAIA national championships in Vancouver, Washington.<\/span><\/p>\n

Young, the three-time defending NSAA champion, had his best finish ever at the NAIA national meet, taking 43rd<\/sup> out of 328 competitors. Young was the top finisher amongst all NSAA and GPAC competitors. Posner finished 260th<\/sup> out of 328 contestants.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Jimmie men\u2019s hockey team will take a break after handing #2 ranked Minot State their first home loss since 2014 and their first loss ever in the Pepsi Arena in Minot. The Jimmies defeated the Beavers 3-2 in Minot Friday and lost a hotly contested 2-1 decision in Jamestown Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Jimmies, ranked #18 in the last ACHA poll, return to action December 8th<\/sup> at home against the Beavers.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Jimmie men\u2019s wrestling team has the weekend off before returning to the mat December 2nd<\/sup> at MSU Moorhead while the women will head to the University of Regina the same weekend.<\/span><\/p>\n

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From the Desk of Sean Johnson- University of Jamestown Director of Athletics Happy Thanksgiving Jimmie fans! Hope you are planning for a great holiday weekend. While some teams have wrapped up their seasons, others will be competing this weekend while others are enjoying a break. Your nationally ranked women\u2019s basketball […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":73738,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133491","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\/133491","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=133491"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133502,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133491\/revisions\/133502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/73738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}