{"id":2560,"date":"2008-05-16T16:07:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-16T21:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inside.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=2560"},"modified":"2008-05-16T16:07:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-16T21:07:00","slug":"eight-days-in-rio-for-auggie-volleyball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2008\/05\/16\/eight-days-in-rio-for-auggie-volleyball\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight days in Rio for Auggie volleyball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2558\" alt=\"brazil\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2013\/04\/brazil.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" \/>For the last eight days, Augsburg&#8217;s women&#8217;s volleyball team has been in Brazil for training, competition, and exploration of South America&#8217;s most populous country. The Auggies trained with and played four matches against local club competition in Rio De Janeiro. The team also took part in a beach volleyball session with a Brazilian professional coach and participated in a community service project for underprivileged children while visiting the city of 6 million.<\/p>\n<p>By Wednesday, the team had overcome its jet lag enough to face off against Brazil&#8217;s best national club team. &#8220;They were very good, and they were state champions,&#8221; recalls junior Dani Boner. &#8220;It was a great experience and made us realize that we should be thankful for our nice balls and facilities [back home].&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For more pictures and accounts from the women&#8217;s volleyball players, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/athletics\/\">visit the Augsburg Athletics web pages devoted to their Brazil trip<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the last eight days, Augsburg&#8217;s women&#8217;s volleyball team has been in Brazil for training, competition, and exploration of South America&#8217;s most populous country. The Auggies trained with and played four matches against local club competition in Rio De Janeiro. The team also took part in a beach volleyball session with a Brazilian professional coach &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[429,763,2459,3066],"class_list":["post-2560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-brazil","tag-dani-boner","tag-rio-de-janeiro","tag-volleyball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}