{"id":72379,"date":"2015-05-12T14:50:43","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T19:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=72379"},"modified":"2015-05-12T14:50:43","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T19:50:43","slug":"emmel-to-play-jimmie-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=72379","title":{"rendered":"Emmel to play Jimmie football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jamestown\u00a0 (CSi)\u00a0 University of Jamestown head men&#8217;s football coach Shawn Frank has announced the signing of Blake Emmel of Shiloh Christian High School who will join the Jimmies in the 2015-2016 season.<\/p>\n<p>Emmel (Bismarck, ND) was offensively twice named 1<sup>st<\/sup> Team All-State, four times All Region and four times All-Western Roughrider Conference. In addition, he was named defensively All Region and All Conference. His team was 2014 nine-man state runner-up, 2 time semi-finalist, and won 2 region championships. They also had 4 playoff appearances in a row. Emmel has 4,666 Career Rushing yards and 63 Rushing Touchdowns. He has 555 receiving yards in his career and 11 receiving touchdowns in his career. Emmel is 5\u201911&#8243; and 190 pounds. He runs the 40 yard dash in 4.8 seconds and is part of the National Honor Society.<\/p>\n<p>Coach Frank says of Emmel, &#8220;Blake exemplifies what our program and institute stands for; he is a great person, student and athlete. We are delighted that Blake has chosen the University of Jamestown as his new home. He<a name=\"_GoBack\"><\/a> is a multi-sport athletes who embraces competition and also loves to compete. The results, stats and records speak for themselves. Blake was an integral part of Shiloh\u2019s athletic success in the last 4 years. He brings many things to the table, outside of the playing field, which we value very highly. I cannot say enough good things about this young man. He was a delight to get to know during the recruiting process. We look forward to watching Blake continue his playing career at the University of Jamestown. Blake joins his sister, Paige, who plays on the women\u2019s basketball team.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Emmel, son of Mike and Camey Emmel, plans to major in Mathematics.<\/p>\n<p>The University of Jamestown was established in 1883 and is ranked as a top regional school in both US News and World Report and The Princeton Review. The school features development of the whole person through its distinctive Journey to Success experience<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamestown\u00a0 (CSi)\u00a0 University of Jamestown head men&#8217;s football coach Shawn Frank has announced the signing of Blake Emmel of Shiloh Christian High School who will join the Jimmies in the 2015-2016 season. Emmel (Bismarck, ND) was offensively twice named 1st Team All-State, four times All Region and four times All-Western [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":72380,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72379","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\/72379","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=72379"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72382,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72379\/revisions\/72382"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/72380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}