{"id":5233,"date":"2013-04-12T12:01:03","date_gmt":"2013-04-12T17:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/?p=5233"},"modified":"2013-04-14T20:00:24","modified_gmt":"2013-04-15T01:00:24","slug":"we-meet-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/archives\/5233","title":{"rendered":"We &#8220;MEET&#8221; Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2013\/04\/Shepherd.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-5285\" style=\"margin-left: 7px;margin-right: 7px\" alt=\"Shepherd\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2013\/04\/Shepherd-200x172.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2013\/04\/Shepherd-200x172.jpg 200w, https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2013\/04\/Shepherd-400x344.jpg 400w, https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2013\/04\/Shepherd-800x688.jpg 800w, https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2013\/04\/Shepherd.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>By Cassie Burnside&#8211;<\/strong>Senior Tabitha Shepherd will be competing in the 3000 meter steeple chase this weekend at the Sioux City Relays.\u00a0 The last time she ran this race was two years ago at this exact meet.<\/p>\n<p>A competitor fell in the water pit and Shepherd tried to adjust her footing and landed wrong, breaking her foot. The recovery from this break has been two years in the making.\u00a0 Her entire junior year was a struggle.\u00a0 Her foot wasn\u2019t healing correctly, and there was still pain.\u00a0 Through all of this, she kept a positive attitude and has inspired others.<\/p>\n<p>Teammate, Mckenzie Reece said, \u201cTabitha is one of the most positive people on the team.\u00a0 When she was injured she always came to practice and always made it a point to encourage others.\u00a0 You can always hear her cheering, no matter where you are on the track.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After two years of recovery, Shepherd is finally back to where she was before the break. At practice on Thursday, she worked on her water pit jumps.\u00a0 She approached the barrier, stopped, turned around, and tried again. This happened about ten times.\u00a0 Shepherd said, \u201cI was letting the fear of the pit get to me.\u00a0 Then I thought, I have to do this. If I don\u2019t do it, I\u2019ll always wonder.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She then turned around, and made one more attempt and cleared the barrier with almost perfect form.<\/p>\n<p>The women\u2019s 3000 meter steeplechase will compete at 11:55 a.m. Saturday morning at Elwood Olsen Stadium on Morningside\u2019s campus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Cassie Burnside&#8211;Senior Tabitha Shepherd will be competing in the 3000 meter steeple chase this weekend at the Sioux City Relays.\u00a0 The last time she ran this race was two years ago at this exact meet. A competitor fell in the water pit and Shepherd tried to adjust her footing and landed wrong, breaking her&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":5285,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[170],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5233"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5286,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5233\/revisions\/5286"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}