{"id":1586,"date":"2019-08-22T15:16:20","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T19:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=1586"},"modified":"2019-08-22T15:16:31","modified_gmt":"2019-08-22T19:16:31","slug":"seu-womens-cross-country-atop-sun-conference-preseason-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2019\/08\/22\/seu-womens-cross-country-atop-sun-conference-preseason-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"SEU Women\u2019s Cross Country atop Sun Conference Preseason Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"900\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/image_handler-1-2.jpg?fit=1024%2C461&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1587\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/image_handler-1-2.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/image_handler-1-2-300x135.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/image_handler-1-2-768x346.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/image_handler-1-2-1024x461.jpg 1024w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n\nThe Southeastern University women&#8217;s cross country team will enter the 2019 season with high expectations.<br><br>The Fire finished first in The Sun Conference Preseason Women&#8217;s Cross Country Coaches&#8217; Poll, released this afternoon by the conference office.<br><br>SEU received four first-place votes to edge out St. Thomas for the top spot by five points. Defending champion SCAD finished third.<br><br>&#8220;It&#8217;s an honor to have our conference coaches recognize our team with the top spot going into the 2019 season,&#8221; said coach&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/fire.seu.edu\/staff.aspx?staff=31\">Paul Kurtz<\/a>. &#8220;With such a close championship last year, I know we will have to step up our game to be at the top come season end. The ladies are already working very hard to make this a reality and I am excited to see how the season rolls.&#8221;&nbsp;<br><br>The Fire return all seven starters from last year&#8217;s team, which finished 29<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;at the NAIA National Championship, and add an exciting incoming class with four runner that have 5K personal bests near or under the 19:00 mark.<br><br>The season begins on September 7<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;at Holloway Park in Lakeland.\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Southeastern University women&#8217;s cross country team will enter the 2019 season with high expectations. The Fire finished first in The Sun Conference Preseason Women&#8217;s Cross Country Coaches&#8217; Poll, released&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-seu-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}