{"id":145452,"date":"2018-05-21T11:11:51","date_gmt":"2018-05-21T16:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=145452"},"modified":"2018-05-21T11:11:51","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T16:11:51","slug":"vikings-compete-in-naia-nationals-track-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=145452","title":{"rendered":"Vikings compete in NAIA nationals, track &#038; Field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-72329\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/JHS-track-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/JHS-track-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/JHS-track-431x324.jpg 431w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/JHS-track-233x175.jpg 233w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/JHS-track.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Valley City\u00a0 (VCSU) Five VCSU student-athletes will compete at the NAIA Outdoor Track &amp; Field National Championships May 24\u201326 in Gulf Shores, Ala.<\/p>\n<p>Senior Megan Johnson is competing in women\u2019s long jump and triple jump; juniors Sayge McKrill and Mackenzie Huber will throw in the women\u2019s discus competition; and freshman Kyle Odegard and sophomore Garret Roemmich are both competing in men\u2019s javelin.<\/p>\n<p>VCSU distance runners Grace Miller and Dennis Gonzalez also qualified for the marathon at the national meet but are unable to compete.<\/p>\n<p>Opening ceremonies for the national meet will be on Thursday, May 24, at 2 p.m. Live video coverage of the national championships is available on a pay-per-view basis at <a href=\"https:\/\/portal.stretchinternet.com\/naia\/\">portal.stretchinternet.com\/naia\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the schedule for the Viking student-athletes:<\/p>\n<p><em>Thursday, May 24<\/em><br \/>\n2 p.m. Opening Ceremonies<br \/>\n5:30 p.m. Women\u2019s long jump (Megan Johnson)<br \/>\n6:30 p.m. Men\u2019s javelin (Kyle Odegard, Garret Roemmich)<\/p>\n<p><em>Friday, May 25<\/em><br \/>\n5:30 p.m. Women\u2019s triple jump (Megan Johnson)<\/p>\n<p><em>Saturday, May 26<\/em><br \/>\n2 p.m. Women\u2019s discus (Sayge McKrill, Mackenzie Huber)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valley City\u00a0 (VCSU) Five VCSU student-athletes will compete at the NAIA Outdoor Track &amp; Field National Championships May 24\u201326 in Gulf Shores, Ala. Senior Megan Johnson is competing in women\u2019s long jump and triple jump; juniors Sayge McKrill and Mackenzie Huber will throw in the women\u2019s discus competition; and freshman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":120681,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145452","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\/145452","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=145452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145453,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145452\/revisions\/145453"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/120681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}