{"id":8137,"date":"2016-11-11T16:22:49","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T21:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/?p=8137"},"modified":"2016-11-11T16:36:36","modified_gmt":"2016-11-11T21:36:36","slug":"8137","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/archives\/8137","title":{"rendered":"Swimmers open with big weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2015\/11\/Swimming-700x375.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-7442\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2015\/11\/Swimming-700x375-200x107.jpg\" alt=\"Swimming-700x375\" width=\"200\" height=\"107\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2015\/11\/Swimming-700x375-200x107.jpg 200w, https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2015\/11\/Swimming-700x375-400x214.jpg 400w, https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2015\/11\/Swimming-700x375.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>By Alyssa Nehring&#8211;<\/strong>Morningside swim team continues its\u00a0season with a weekend full of swimming here at Morningside.<\/p>\n<p>Friday night sees\u00a0a dual meet against the Iowa Central Tritons and the Kearney Lopers at 7 pm. Coach Bryan Farris said the\u00a0men\u2019s and women\u2019s teams are\u00a0looking forward to this weekends competitions.<\/p>\n<p>The Morningside Invitational starts Saturday at 12. There will be a total of eight teams including Iowa Central, Iowa Lakes, Augustana, College of St. Mary\u2019s, Kearny, Gustavus Adolphus, Nebraska Wesleyan, and Morningside. Tracy Gates, team captain says, \u201cWe are excited for the competition from the teams.\u201d Saturday will be a fast meet with a lot of opportunity for good races. Farris says, \u201cSaturday will be a good day for everyone to race.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Farris always likes the team to swim a dual meet before the Morningside Invitation. \u201cThe boys are going to have a tough meet,\u201d says Farris. ICCC has a good men&#8217;s\u00a0team with talent spread throughout all of the events.<\/p>\n<p>The women will also have a tough meet. However, Farris believes that the team has a good opportunity to bring home the win. \u201cI believe our depth will help us overcome.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kearney is a D2 school. The Morningside women\u2019s swim team hasn\u2019t defeated a D2 since \u00a0Farris has been coaching here. \u201cThe chance to beat a D2 school is a great opportunity for these swimmers,\u201d says Farris.<\/p>\n<p>Come support the Mustangs Friday night at 7 and Saturday at 12 at the Morningside Pool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Alyssa Nehring&#8211;Morningside swim team continues its\u00a0season with a weekend full of swimming here at Morningside. Friday night sees\u00a0a dual meet against the Iowa Central Tritons and the Kearney Lopers at 7 pm. Coach Bryan Farris said the\u00a0men\u2019s and women\u2019s teams are\u00a0looking forward to this weekends competitions. The Morningside Invitational starts Saturday at 12. There&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":8140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[170],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8137","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\/8137","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\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8137"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8147,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8137\/revisions\/8147"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}