{"id":209068,"date":"2020-09-30T07:17:36","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T12:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=209068"},"modified":"2020-09-30T07:17:36","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T12:17:36","slug":"vcsu-x-country-athletes-nsaa-runners-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=209068","title":{"rendered":"VCSU X-Country Athletes, NSAA Runners of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-209069\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/VCSU-Runners-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/VCSU-Runners-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/VCSU-Runners-431x243.jpg 431w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/VCSU-Runners-862x485.jpg 862w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/VCSU-Runners-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/VCSU-Runners-1024x577.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/VCSU-Runners-311x175.jpg 311w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/VCSU-Runners.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>MADISON, S.D.\u00a0\u2013\u00a0 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.playnorthstar.com\/article\/6026\">NSAA<\/a>)\u00a0 The North Star Athletic Association (NSAA) announced its third installment of the women\u2019s and men\u2019s cross-country runners-of-the-week Tuesday.\u00a0 Valley City State (N.D.) \u00a0swept the weekly honors.\u00a0 Jasmine Barnes was named as the Women\u2019s Runner-of-the-Week.\u00a0 Mason Wendt was selected as the Men\u2019s Runner-of-the-Week.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>NSAA Women\u2019s Cross-Country Runner-of-the-Week<\/u><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Jasmine Barnes \u2013 Valley City State (N.D.) \u2013 Freshman \u2013 Redwood Falls, Minn.\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 Barnes notched her first career victory as she won the Dickinson State (N.D.) Invitational for Valley City State (N.D.).\u00a0 She ran her career-best time of 19 minutes, 11 seconds in the 5K race, which was the fifth fastest time in school history.\u00a0 It was more than 17 seconds better than the second-place runner.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>NSAA Men\u2019s Cross-Country Runner-of-the-Week<\/u><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Mason Wendt \u2013 Valley City State (N.D.) \u2013 Freshman \u2013 Willmar, Minn.<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Wendt was the top collegiate runner and led Valley City State (N.D.) to a team victory in the Dickinson State (N.D.) Invitational.\u00a0 He clocked a time of 26 minutes, 54 seconds to earn a second-place finish in the 8K race, which featured a total of 26 runners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MADISON, S.D.\u00a0\u2013\u00a0 (NSAA)\u00a0 The North Star Athletic Association (NSAA) announced its third installment of the women\u2019s and men\u2019s cross-country runners-of-the-week Tuesday.\u00a0 Valley City State (N.D.) \u00a0swept the weekly honors.\u00a0 Jasmine Barnes was named as the Women\u2019s Runner-of-the-Week.\u00a0 Mason Wendt was selected as the Men\u2019s Runner-of-the-Week. NSAA Women\u2019s Cross-Country Runner-of-the-Week Jasmine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":209069,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209068","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\/209068","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=209068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209070,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209068\/revisions\/209070"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/209069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=209068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=209068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=209068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}