{"id":35097,"date":"2018-10-02T10:32:17","date_gmt":"2018-10-02T16:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=35097"},"modified":"2024-05-21T12:35:53","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T18:35:53","slug":"wooten-earns-second-ustfccca-national-athlete-of-the-week-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=35097","title":{"rendered":"Wooten earns second USTFCCCA National Athlete of the Week award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the second time this season, UCCS junior Kayla Wooten earned the United States Track &amp; Field Cross Country Coaches Association Division II National Athlete of the Week award. She won the award after her victory in the six-kilometer race at the Roy Griak Invitational Sept. 29.<\/p>\n<p>Wooten crossed the finish line in 21 minutes, 55.8 seconds ahead of the other 192 runners at the University of Minnesota&#8217;s Les Bolstad Golf Course. She finished nearly five seconds ahead of the runner up and helped the Mountain Lions finish third among the 22 teams in the standings.<\/p>\n<p>It was her second victory of the season and her first since the Rust Buster Invitational Sept. 1. That win led to her first national athlete of the week award Sept. 4 from the USTFCCCA. She is the only student-athlete in program history to earn the national weekly award.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211;by Sarah Meier, Athletics<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Kayla Wooten&#8217;s win at the Roy Griak Invitational earned her the second United States Track &#038; Field Cross Country Coaches Association Division II National Athlete of the Week award. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=35097\" title=\"Wooten earns second USTFCCCA National Athlete of the Week award\">(More)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,49],"tags":[53,93,86,130,60],"class_list":["post-35097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-campus-announcements","tag-academic-affairs","tag-athletics","tag-college-of-letters-arts-and-sciences","tag-department-of-psychology","tag-student-success"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/UCCS-Mountain-Lion-Logo.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mBpJ-985","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35097"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156470,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35097\/revisions\/156470"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}