{"id":219282,"date":"2021-02-15T17:00:32","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T23:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=219282"},"modified":"2021-02-15T22:55:32","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T04:55:32","slug":"vcsus-nelson-nsaa-player-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=219282","title":{"rendered":"VCSU&#8217;s Nelson, NSAA Player of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-219283\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Nelson-Maara.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"276\" height=\"277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Nelson-Maara.jpg 276w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Nelson-Maara-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Nelson-Maara-174x175.jpg 174w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 276px) 100vw, 276px\" \/>MADISON, S.D. ( playnorthstar.com) \u2013 Valley City State senior <a id=\"rosterLink0\" class=\"rosterProfileLink   \" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vcsuvikings.com\/roster\/48\/2\/3310\" data-url=\"\/SIDHelp\/briefBio\/48\/2\/3310\" data-original-title=\"\">Maara Nelson<\/a>\u00a0was selected as the North Star Athletic Association (NSAA) Women\u2019s Basketball Player of the Week&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>North Star Athletic Association Women\u2019s Basketball Player-of-the-Week<\/u><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><a id=\"rosterLink1\" class=\"rosterProfileLink   \" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vcsuvikings.com\/roster\/48\/2\/3310\" data-url=\"\/SIDHelp\/briefBio\/48\/2\/3310\" data-original-title=\"\">Maara Nelson<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 Valley City State (N.D.) \u2013 5\u20199\u2033 \u2013 Senior \u2013 guard \u2013 Carrington, N.D.<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Nelson matched her career-high, scoring 20 points to leading Valley City State (N.D.) to a 54-50 home defeat to Bellevue (Neb.).\u00a0 She then topped her career-high with 24 points in an 87-80 high-scoring affair defeat to No. 17-ranked Dakota State (S.D.).\u00a0 Nelson averaged 22.0 points (44 total points), 6.0 rebounds (12 rebounds), 2.0 steals (4 steals), 1.5 assists (3 assists) for the week.\u00a0 She was 16-of-33 from the field (48.5 percent) and converted 10-of-13 from the free-throw line (76.9 percent).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MADISON, S.D. ( playnorthstar.com) \u2013 Valley City State senior Maara Nelson\u00a0was selected as the North Star Athletic Association (NSAA) Women\u2019s Basketball Player of the Week&#8230;. North Star Athletic Association Women\u2019s Basketball Player-of-the-Week Maara Nelson\u00a0\u2013 Valley City State (N.D.) \u2013 5\u20199\u2033 \u2013 Senior \u2013 guard \u2013 Carrington, N.D.\u00a0\u2013 Nelson matched her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":219283,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219282","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\/219282","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=219282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219284,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219282\/revisions\/219284"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/219283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=219282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=219282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=219282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}