{"id":18613,"date":"2021-12-27T13:11:54","date_gmt":"2021-12-27T18:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=18613"},"modified":"2021-12-27T13:12:05","modified_gmt":"2021-12-27T18:12:05","slug":"lakeland-royals-made-history-on-december-18th-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2021\/12\/27\/lakeland-royals-made-history-on-december-18th-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakeland Royals made history on December 18th 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With Southeastern University as the backdrop, one by one, the first players and coaches for the new Lakeland Royals Basketball FBA (Florida Basketball Association) team signed their contracts forming the very first team for the New Lakeland Royals. It is history in the making because the Lakeland Royals owner, Amy Rhodes, is the first female and youngest ever owner of an FBA team.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow aligncenter\" data-autoplay=\"true\" data-delay=\"3\" data-effect=\"fade\"><div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_container swiper-container\"><ul class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_swiper-wrapper swiper-wrapper\"><li class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_slide swiper-slide\"><figure><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_image wp-image-18614\" data-id=\"18614\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/IMG_20211205_164639_511.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&#038;ssl=1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/IMG_20211205_164639_511.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, 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team.\u201d\u00a0 Owner Amy Rhodes added \u201cI anticipate great success with this team and coaching staff.\u00a0 I am very proud of them and I am excited to see what this season will bring.\u201d\u00a0 I spoke with Mr Mark A King, FBA Chief Executive Officer who shares the teams enthusiasm.\u00a0 He stated that he was excited to have Amy on board and believes that, with her drive and commitment, she will have great success.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Royals already seen success! They played in their first tournament a few weeks ago put on the the IBCK National Team and the Royals went undefeated and won the tournament!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is great expectations placed on this young team and ownership and they are determined to live up to it! Get ready, ticket sales start soon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Southeastern University as the backdrop, one by one, the first players and coaches for the new Lakeland Royals Basketball FBA (Florida Basketball Association) team signed their contracts forming the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"0","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","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":[1598],"tags":[2047],"class_list":["post-18613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lakeland-royals","tag-lakeland-royals-made-history-on-december-18th-2021"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18613","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=18613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}