{"id":13178,"date":"2019-05-15T13:37:51","date_gmt":"2019-05-15T18:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/?p=13178"},"modified":"2019-05-16T13:02:53","modified_gmt":"2019-05-16T18:02:53","slug":"undefeated-panthers-win-imac-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/2019\/05\/15\/undefeated-panthers-win-imac-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Undefeated Panthers Win IMAC Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive alignright wp-image-13179 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/nclhx5yj.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/softball-in-story-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"Girls Softball Team\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/>Congratulations to the MPA Girls Softball Team for winning the 2019 IMAC Conference Championship! This is the first championship title to be won by MPA&#8217;s softball team in school history. This year&#8217;s team composition has been tremendously successful, as it features a variety of grades and even a few players from Gentry Academy, who MPA has a co-operative partnership with this year. There are two seniors, four juniors, six eighth graders, and three students from Gentry Academy. All the players showed a commitment to the team from the beginning, such as eighth grader Siri S., who chose to play on MPA&#8217;s team along with her traveling softball team.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The wide range of ages, along with the partnering of two schools, make logistics (practice times, game times, early dismissal and transportation departure times) somewhat challenging,&#8221; says Dan Haase, one of the coaches and director of athletics at MPA, &#8220;This group, however, has responded well to these challenges. Team competition and expectations have skyrocketed with our early success. The girls respect each other and support each other, which creates a fun team atmosphere and makes coaching even more enjoyable. I&#8217;m so proud of their success thus far and look forward to the continuing competition and athletic growth, both this year and in the years to come.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Congrats on this incredible success, Panthers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to the MPA Girls Softball Team for winning the 2019 IMAC Conference Championship! This is the first championship title to be won by MPA&#8217;s softball team in school history. This year&#8217;s team composition has been tremendously successful, as it features a variety of grades and even a few players from Gentry Academy, who MPA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":13180,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,8,15,28,24,29,12,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-admission","category-all-school","category-athletics","category-current-families","category-featured-posts","category-homepage","category-middle-school","category-upper-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13178"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13220,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13178\/revisions\/13220"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}