{"id":4156,"date":"2019-01-25T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T13:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.pages.roanoke.edu\/?p=4156"},"modified":"2019-01-25T08:00:47","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T13:00:47","slug":"rooneys-senior-roundup-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=4156","title":{"rendered":"Rooney&#8217;s Senior Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Written by Kaelyn Spickler<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Mara Briggs<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Track and Field<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">High Jump<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Starting her senior season, Mara Briggs has set some big goals for herself. \u201cI hope to be All-American again, and the big dream would be to win a national championship. I\u2019m training for it, so I am hopeful,\u201d Briggs said. As for being OCAC Athlete of the Week for this week, \u201cit\u2019s nice to have recognition for the work I have put in,\u201d said Briggs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This past weekend, Briggs and her team competed at the Kaydet invitational in Lexington, Virginia where they faced mostly Division One teams. \u201cThere were 35 other high jumpers, and I placed fourth. I actually like competing in these big meets more because there\u2019s harder competition which forces me to do my best. I want to put a good name out there for Roanoke College and my team,\u201d Briggs said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In order to represent the school well and ensure success throughout the season, Briggs jumps twice a week, does drills twice a week, runs once a week, and lifts three times a week. As a senior she has taken on a leadership role. \u201cI try to get everybody going and be positive so that way as a team we can, hopefully, win ODACs,\u201d Briggs said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Kaelyn Spickler Mara Briggs Track and Field High Jump Starting her senior season, Mara Briggs has set some big goals for herself. \u201cI hope to be All-American again, and the big dream would be to win a national championship. I\u2019m training for it, so I am hopeful,\u201d Briggs said. As for being OCAC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":4154,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Screen-Shot-2019-01-24-at-4.24.51-PM.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}