{"id":6568,"date":"2020-02-27T13:46:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T18:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=6568"},"modified":"2020-02-27T13:46:17","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T18:46:17","slug":"legendary-coach-norm-benn-inducted-into-polk-county-sports-hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2020\/02\/27\/legendary-coach-norm-benn-inducted-into-polk-county-sports-hall-of-fame\/","title":{"rendered":"Legendary Coach Norm Benn Inducted into Polk County Sports Hall of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Legendary Florida Southern College women&#8217;s basketball coach&nbsp;<strong>Norm Benn<\/strong>&nbsp;has been named a member of the Class of 2020 in the Polk County Hall of Fame. The induction ceremony will be held at the RP Funding Center in Lakeland, on June 9, 2020. Ticket information will be forthcoming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/download-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6569\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Benn coached the Moccasin women&#8217;s basketball program from 1985-97, compiling a career record of 250-97, a .723 winning percentage. In his 12 seasons at the helm, his teams won 20 or more games eight different times. Southern claimed five Sunshine State Conference regular season titles, six SSC Tournament titles, and the program&#8217;s only NCAA South Region Championship and Elite Eight appearance in 1995. Benn was named SSC Coach of the Year four times and NCAA South Region Coach of the Year once.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Filling in when needed, Benn became an assistant women&#8217;s golf coach here at Southern, beginning in 1997, and concluding in 2010. He was a part of all four women&#8217;s golf National Championship teams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More than just a coach, Benn served the FSC athletic department in various roles, including as the Compliance Director and Chair of the Hall of Fame Committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A fixture even today in the Jenkins Field House during basketball games, this will be Benn&#8217;s third Hall of Fame induction. He entered the Florida Southern College Hall of Fame in 2004, and the Sunshine State Conference Hall of Fame in 2003.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legendary Florida Southern College women&#8217;s basketball coach&nbsp;Norm Benn&nbsp;has been named a member of the Class of 2020 in the Polk County Hall of Fame. The induction ceremony will be held&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6569,"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":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fsc-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6568","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=6568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}