{"id":186953,"date":"2019-12-11T15:19:09","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T21:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=186953"},"modified":"2019-12-11T15:19:55","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T21:19:55","slug":"knudson-wedell-receive-additional-naia-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=186953","title":{"rendered":"Knudson, Wedell receive additional NAIA Honors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KANSAS CITY, Mo.\u00a0 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jimmieathletics.com\/article\/5222.php\">uj.edu<\/a>)<strong> &#8212;\u00a0<\/strong>A day after earning AVCA NAIA All-American honors, <a id=\"rosterLink0\" class=\"rosterProfileLink \" href=\"http:\/\/www.JimmieAthletics.com\/roster\/20\/18\/8495.php\">Britta Knudson<\/a> (SR\/Bismarck, N.D.) and <a id=\"rosterLink1\" class=\"rosterProfileLink \" href=\"http:\/\/www.JimmieAthletics.com\/roster\/20\/18\/8494.php\">Isabel Wedell<\/a> (SR\/Ellendale, N.D.) were recognized by the NAIA.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-186954\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/knudsonbritta.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/knudsonbritta.jpg 169w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/knudsonbritta-132x175.jpg 132w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/>Knudson was named to the NAIA All-American second team. She led the Jimmies with 345 kills, a .345 hitting percentage, and 184 blocks. Knudson&#8217;s 184 blocks led the NAIA this season and are the second-most by a UJ player. Knudson was a first-team Great Plains Athletic Conference selection, earned a spot on the AVCA West Central Region first team, and was a second team AVCA NAIA All-American.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-186955\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Wedell.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Wedell.jpg 169w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Wedell-132x175.jpg 132w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/>Wedell earned honorable mention All-American honors.\u00a0She was second on the team with 333 kills and posted a serving percentage of .954. Wedell was named to the GPAC first team, AVCA West Central Region first team, and an honorable mention AVCA NAIA All-American.<\/p>\n<p>Jamestown finished the season with a 33-6 record, setting a new mark for wins in a season while advancing to the semifinals of the NAIA National Championship.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/naia.prestosports.com\/sports\/wvball\/2019-20\/releases\/All-Americans?preview=true\">2019 NAIA Women&#8217;s Volleyball All-Americans<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KANSAS CITY, Mo.\u00a0 (uj.edu) &#8212;\u00a0A day after earning AVCA NAIA All-American honors, Britta Knudson (SR\/Bismarck, N.D.) and Isabel Wedell (SR\/Ellendale, N.D.) were recognized by the NAIA. Knudson was named to the NAIA All-American second team. She led the Jimmies with 345 kills, a .345 hitting percentage, and 184 blocks. Knudson&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":29178,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186953","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\/186953","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=186953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186956,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186953\/revisions\/186956"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=186953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=186953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=186953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}