{"id":32769,"date":"2016-04-03T10:00:12","date_gmt":"2016-04-03T16:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=32769"},"modified":"2018-03-07T16:39:36","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T22:39:36","slug":"track-field-posts-strong-showing-at-arkansas-spring-invitational","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/track-field-posts-strong-showing-at-arkansas-spring-invitational\/","title":{"rendered":"Track &#038; Field Posts Strong Showing At Arkansas Spring Invitational"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Ole Miss<\/strong> won six events as they continued their strong start to the 2016 outdoor season at the <strong>Arkansas Spring Invitational<\/strong> in <strong>Fayetteville<\/strong> last weekend. Sophomore <strong>Raven Saunders<\/strong> won the title in shot put, discus, and hammer throws, despite first-year coach <strong>Connie Price-Smith<\/strong>\u2019s claim that she didn\u2019t have her best day. \u201cRaven didn\u2019t throw great by any means,\u201d said Price-Smith, \u201cbut she\u2019s throwing at such a level that she was able to win all three of them.\u201d Saunders can currently claim the #1 spot in the entire <strong>NCAA<\/strong> in the shot put, and #3 in the discus on the young season. Other highlights included sophomore <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.olemisssports.com\/sports\/c-track\/mtt\/dempsey_mcguigan_882878.html\">Dempsey McGuigan<\/a><\/strong> winning the hammer throw, the Rebel men\u2019s only event victory at the meet. Additionally, Senior <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.olemisssports.com\/sports\/c-track\/mtt\/khadijah_suleman_878858.html\">Khadijah Suleman<\/a><\/strong> won the 100 meters while coming in second in the 200. Her 11.39 finish in the 100 is the third-fastest time in Ole Miss history.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14544\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-14544\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"The Local Voice Ligature\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ole Miss won six events as they continued their strong start to the 2016 outdoor season at the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":251,"featured_media":32335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2369,754,642,7067,4,700,2978,2311,753,8241],"class_list":["post-32769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-athletics","tag-arkansas","tag-local-voice","tag-ms","tag-ole-miss","tag-oxford","tag-rebels","tag-records-2","tag-sec","tag-tlv","tag-track-field"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/2016-03-16-LSStrackfield.jpg?fit=620%2C349&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/251"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}