{"id":295292,"date":"2025-08-26T09:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T14:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=295292"},"modified":"2025-08-27T08:38:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T13:38:22","slug":"und-keeler-captures-gold-at-jr-pan-american-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=295292","title":{"rendered":"UND Keeler Captures Gold at Jr. Pan American Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/und-track82225.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/und-track82225.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-295293\" width=\"311\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/und-track82225.jpg 500w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/und-track82225-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/und-track82225-311x175.jpg 311w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 311px) 100vw, 311px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Grand Forks &#8211; UND women&#8217;s track &amp; field cross country standout\u00a0<dfn><a href=\"https:\/\/fightinghawks.com\/sports\/womens-track-and-field\/roster\/jadyn-keeler\/12797\">Jadyn Keeler<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0can now add two-time medalist in front of her name, as the incoming senior captured a pair of medals for her home nation of Canada at the 2025 Jr. Pan American Games in\u00a0Asunci\u00f3n,\u00a0Paraguay this week.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In her international debut on Monday evening, Keeler announced her presence with a bang in the 10,000-meters by shattering the games record (34:43.80) by over 27 seconds to capture the gold medal with a time of 34:16.61 to earn an automatic qualifier to the 2027 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru. The time was the second-best in the career for Keeler and would have ranked third in program history.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just a few days later, Keeler found her way back to the podium once again &#8212; this time in the 5,000-meters. The Barrie, Ontario, native was one of only two competitors to finish under the 16-minute mark and claim the silver medal with a time of 15:56.77. The time was also the second-best in the Keeler&#8217;s career and would sit in second on the program&#8217;s all-time top-10 list.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>North Dakota will open the 2025 cross country season a week from today by hosting the annual Ron Pynn Classic from&nbsp;<dfn><a href=\"https:\/\/fightinghawks.com\/staff-directory\/ray-richards-golf-course\/552\">Ray Richards Golf Course<\/a><\/dfn>&nbsp;in Grand Forks, N.D.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grand Forks &#8211; UND women&#8217;s track &amp; field cross country standout\u00a0Jadyn Keeler\u00a0can now add two-time medalist in front of her name, as the incoming senior captured a pair of medals for her home nation of Canada at the 2025 Jr. Pan American Games in\u00a0Asunci\u00f3n,\u00a0Paraguay this week.\u00a0 In her international debut [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":295293,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295292","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=295292"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":295329,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295292\/revisions\/295329"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/295293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=295292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=295292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=295292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}