{"id":145902,"date":"2018-05-27T12:00:55","date_gmt":"2018-05-27T17:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=145902"},"modified":"2018-05-29T08:07:34","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T13:07:34","slug":"mckrill-huber-place-in-naia-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=145902","title":{"rendered":"McKrill, Huber, place in NAIA Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/McKrillHuber.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-145960\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/McKrillHuber-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/McKrillHuber-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/McKrillHuber-431x291.jpg 431w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/McKrillHuber-260x175.jpg 260w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/McKrillHuber.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Gulf Shores, Ala. from VCSU Vikings.com \u2013 VCSU throwers\u00a0Sayge McKrill\u00a0and\u00a0Mackenzie Huber\u00a0battled lightning delays and heavy rain Saturday afternoon as they competed in the women\u2019s discus at the NAIA Outdoor Track &amp; Field National Championships.<\/p>\n<p>McKrill improved her seed by six spots as she placed 11th in the competition on Saturday with a throw of 41.45 meters (136 feet). McKrill\u2019s top mark came on her first throw of the day after the event was twice delayed by heavy rain. She was seeded 17th entering the event but battled through the less-than-ideal conditions to put up a strong finish<\/p>\n<p>Teammate\u00a0Mackenzie Huber\u00a0improved her seed by two spots Saturday as she placed 19th at nationals with a throw of 36.56 meters (119 feet, 11 inches). She had entered the meet seeded 21st.<\/p>\n<p>Huber and McKrill\u2019s performances wrapped up a busy weekend for the VCSU track and field program, which had five athletes compete in six events and earn two All-American honors. Viking athletes placed in the Top 20 in all six events.<\/p>\n<p>VCSU had five total athletes compete at the national championships.\u00a0Megan Johnson\u00a0placed 7th in women\u2019s triple jump and 19th in long jump;\u00a0Kyle Odegard\u00a0took 7th in men\u2019s javelin; and\u00a0Garret Roemmich\u00a0placed 16th in men\u2019s javelin. Both Johnson and Odegard earned All-American honors for their seventh-place finishes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gulf Shores, Ala. from VCSU Vikings.com \u2013 VCSU throwers\u00a0Sayge McKrill\u00a0and\u00a0Mackenzie Huber\u00a0battled lightning delays and heavy rain Saturday afternoon as they competed in the women\u2019s discus at the NAIA Outdoor Track &amp; Field National Championships. McKrill improved her seed by six spots as she placed 11th in the competition on Saturday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":145960,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145902","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\/145902","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=145902"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145961,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145902\/revisions\/145961"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/145960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}