{"id":7063,"date":"2015-03-19T13:44:07","date_gmt":"2015-03-19T18:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/?p=7063"},"modified":"2015-03-19T13:44:07","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T18:44:07","slug":"womens-basketball-bring-home-a-national-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/archives\/7063","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s Basketball Bring Home A National Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7060\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7060\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-7060\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2015\/03\/Banner-200x117.jpg\" alt=\"The Banner\" width=\"200\" height=\"117\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2015\/03\/Banner-200x117.jpg 200w, https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2015\/03\/Banner-400x234.jpg 400w, https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2015\/03\/Banner-800x469.jpg 800w, https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2015\/03\/Banner.jpg 1250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7060\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Banner<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>By Gabi French\u2014Morningside College\u2019s women\u2019s basketball team is the NAIA 2015 Division II National Champions. They finished their season with a 37-1 record. This is the fourth National Championship for women\u2019s basketball.<\/p>\n<p>In the last minute of the game, the score would either be tied or a one point difference. The Mustangs were able to pull ahead when a Concordia player fouled Lexi Ackerman with two seconds left on the clock. Ackerman was sent to the free throw line for two shots where she sunk both.<\/p>\n<p>The team had to play without first team All-GPAC forward, Ashlyn Muhl. Luckily, Jessica Tietz stepped up. Tietz was awarded the tournament\u2019s MVP.<\/p>\n<p>Lauren Lehmkul, a freshman for the Mustangs, still can\u2019t wrap her head around being a National Champion. \u201cThroughout high school, I never made it passed the first round of sub districts and that was always hard for me because I was always the only one on my team wanting to win,\u201d said Lehmkul. \u201cComing to Morningside and playing with these girls that all want to win is just amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lehmkul being a freshman for the team has her expectations set high for the Mustangs. She has no doubt that the Mustangs will be back at the National Tournament next year.<\/p>\n<p>Looking ahead for the Mustangs, Lauren feels that the freshman class is going to do great things in the future. With some freshman being on Varsity already (Madi, Brandan, Jenna, and Lehmkul.) She is sure the experience will help. Along with the incoming classes, Lauren has no doubt that they are going to come here with the mentality to win.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey (incoming classes) are going to come here not only because we are good, but because they want to win.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Gabi French\u2014Morningside College\u2019s women\u2019s basketball team is the NAIA 2015 Division II National Champions. They finished their season with a 37-1 record. This is the fourth National Championship for women\u2019s basketball. In the last minute of the game, the score would either be tied or a one point difference. The Mustangs were able to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[203],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7063","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=7063"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7249,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7063\/revisions\/7249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}