{"id":8769,"date":"2018-12-13T18:57:22","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T18:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=8769"},"modified":"2019-01-14T18:38:02","modified_gmt":"2019-01-14T18:38:02","slug":"report-record-five-african-american-female-players-start-nov-19-basketball-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2018\/12\/13\/report-record-five-african-american-female-players-start-nov-19-basketball-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Story: Record five African-American female players start basketball game"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8771\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8771\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/12\/rsz_viewaugsburg_womens_basketball-2-683x569.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8771\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/12\/rsz_viewaugsburg_womens_basketball-2-683x569-300x250.jpg\" alt=\"Photo by Dr. Mitchell Palmer McDonald\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/12\/rsz_viewaugsburg_womens_basketball-2-683x569-300x250.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/12\/rsz_viewaugsburg_womens_basketball-2-683x569.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8771\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Dr. Mitchell Palmer McDonald<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder highlighted Augsburg University students Arianna Jones, Camille McCoy,\u00a0Tamara McLenore, Camryn Speese, and Kaezha Wubben, who at their Nov. 19 game against\u00a0University of Wisconsin-Superior made history after becoming the first five African-American starters at a\u00a0college basketball game in Minnesota, the story said. The writer described the twelve women of color on the team of 19 as the &#8220;diverse dozen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the MIAC there\u2019s not many of us out there playing. A lot of them are sitting on the bench.\u201d said starter Speese, in the article. \u201cI\u2019ve been here since the beginning\u2026making it a point of getting people of color at our school, which is the most diverse school in the MIAC.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spokesman-recorder.com\/2018\/11\/30\/finally-five-black-starters-at-a-minnesota-university-game\/?utm_source=cerkl&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=newsletter-12112018&amp;cerkl_id=3854838&amp;cerkl_ue=gVHYcffM%2FP5urGRGeIZyw6eq%2FmqwMz8ULjV8z7x7rO4%3D\">See the full story at MSR&#8217;s website.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder highlighted Augsburg University students Arianna Jones, Camille McCoy,\u00a0Tamara McLenore, Camryn Speese, and Kaezha Wubben, who at their Nov. 19 game against\u00a0University of Wisconsin-Superior made history after becoming the first five African-American starters at a\u00a0college basketball game in Minnesota, the story said. The writer described the twelve women of color on the team &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8769","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8769"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8886,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8769\/revisions\/8886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}