{"id":186396,"date":"2019-12-05T16:19:12","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T22:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=186396"},"modified":"2019-12-05T16:19:12","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T22:19:12","slug":"quinones-naia-all-american-honorable-mention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=186396","title":{"rendered":"Quinones, NAIA All-American, Honorable Mention"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"article-body\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-186399\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/QuinonesLouis.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/QuinonesLouis.jpg 169w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/QuinonesLouis-132x175.jpg 132w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/>Valley City\u00a0 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vcsuvikings.com\/article\/3614\">VCSU<\/a>) Valley City State University running back <a id=\"rosterLink0\" class=\"rosterProfileLink \" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vcsuvikings.com\/roster\/47\/5\/2804\" data-url=\"\/SIDHelp\/briefBio\/47\/5\/2804\" data-original-title=\"\">Louis Quinones<\/a> has been named Honorable Mention NAIA All-American, the national office announced Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>A senior from Colorado Springs, Colo., Quinones led the nation in both rushing yards per game (150) and all-purpose yards per game (210) this season. Despite missing two games to injury, Quinones racked up 1198 rushing yards, 12 touchdowns and 1678 all-purpose yards during the 2019 campaign \u2013\u00a0helping VCSU to a 7-3 overall record.<\/p>\n<p>The AFCA NAIA Coaches&#8217; All-America Teams feature two running backs on the First Team and two more on the Second Team. Quinones was one of five running backs named Honorable Mention All-American. The AFCA NAIA All-America Teams are chosen exclusively by coaches.<\/p>\n<p>Honorable Mention All-American is just the latest accolade for Quinones, who was also named First Team All-Conference as a running back and Second Team All-Conference as a returner. He achieved All-Conference as both a running back and returner in his sophomore, junior and senior seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Quinones also broke the VCSU career rushing record this season and tied the school record for rushing touchdowns, finishing his Viking career with 3530 rushing yards and 36 rushing touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.naia.org\/sports\/fball\/2019-20\/releases\/2019-All-Americans\">Complete AFCA NAIA Coaches&#8217; All-America Teams<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valley City\u00a0 (VCSU) Valley City State University running back Louis Quinones has been named Honorable Mention NAIA All-American, the national office announced Thursday. A senior from Colorado Springs, Colo., Quinones led the nation in both rushing yards per game (150) and all-purpose yards per game (210) this season. Despite missing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7185,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186396","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\/186396","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=186396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186400,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186396\/revisions\/186400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=186396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=186396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=186396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}