{"id":818,"date":"2019-03-11T17:13:36","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T22:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kentuckysports.net\/?p=818"},"modified":"2020-11-03T09:01:28","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T14:01:28","slug":"three-from-morningside-earn-scholar-athlete-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kentuckysports.net\/?p=818","title":{"rendered":"Three from Morningside earn scholar-athlete honors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"13c398acb195b4bd84e993cb56669758\" data-index=\"6\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Above Post Ad 2 -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:inline-block;width:638px;height:70px\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4024319323781499\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"8631827568\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>Morningside Athletics<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Mark Adkins, Sports Information Director<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv1521490283MsoNormal\"><b class=\"yiv1521490283\"><span class=\"yiv1521490283\">SIOUX CITY, Iowa \u2013\u00a0<\/span><\/b><span class=\"yiv1521490283\">A combined three Morningside College cheer and dance student-athletes earned National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics\u2019 Scholar-Athlete accolades with the announcement made Friday, March 8.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv1521490283MsoNormal\"><span class=\"yiv1521490283\">Junior\u00a0<b class=\"yiv1521490283\">Abby Sitzmann (Kingsley, Iowa)<\/b>was the cheer honoree, and the duo of senior <b class=\"yiv1521490283\">Kayla Inlay (Sioux City, Iowa<\/b>) and junior <b class=\"yiv1521490283\">Alison Wright (Rock Rapids, Iowa)\u00a0<\/b>gained dance recognition for head coach Alisha Steckler\u2019s teams. It\u2019s the fourth straight year in which the Mustangs have had at least one person recognized.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv1521490283MsoNormal\"><span class=\"yiv1521490283\">I<\/span><span class=\"yiv1521490283\">n order to be nominated by an institution<\/span><s class=\"yiv1521490283\"><span class=\"yiv1521490283\">, <\/span><\/s><span class=\"yiv1521490283\">a student-athlete must maintain a minimum grade point average of 3.5 on a 4.0 scale and must have achieved a junior academic status to qualify for this honor.<\/span><\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morningside Athletics Mark Adkins, Sports Information Director SIOUX CITY, Iowa \u2013\u00a0A combined three Morningside College cheer and dance student-athletes earned National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics\u2019 Scholar-Athlete<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213,214,5,23],"tags":[215,216,98],"class_list":["post-818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cheer","category-dance","category-naia","category-top-news","tag-cheer","tag-dance","tag-morningside"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kentuckysports.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kentuckysports.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kentuckysports.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kentuckysports.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kentuckysports.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=818"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kentuckysports.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":821,"href":"https:\/\/kentuckysports.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions\/821"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kentuckysports.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kentuckysports.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kentuckysports.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kentuckysports.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}