{"id":42182,"date":"2016-03-04T09:28:35","date_gmt":"2016-03-04T16:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=42182"},"modified":"2016-03-28T12:24:35","modified_gmt":"2016-03-28T19:24:35","slug":"historic-victories-in-the-books-for-lumberjack-athletics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/historic-victories-in-the-books-for-lumberjack-athletics\/","title":{"rendered":"Historic victories for Lumberjack athletics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_20160228_112403-e1457025853614.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-42184\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-42184 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_20160228_112403-e1457025853614-300x175.jpg\" alt=\"Swim and Dive WAC Conference Champions\" width=\"300\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2016\/03\/IMG_20160228_112403-e1457025853614-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2016\/03\/IMG_20160228_112403-e1457025853614-768x447.jpg 768w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2016\/03\/IMG_20160228_112403-e1457025853614.jpg 842w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>NAU Athletics teams blew past the competition on their way to record-setting conference championship finishes.<\/p>\n<p>With the fifth largest margin of victory in conference history, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nauathletics.com\/sports\/wswimdive\/index\">NAU swimming and diving<\/a>\u00a0dominated the field and clinched their third-straight Western Athletic Conference championship in Houston. Junior\u00a0<strong>Alexa Geiger<\/strong>\u00a0became\u00a0the first Lumberjack diver since 2008 to receive the Diver of the Year award.<\/p>\n<p>For the third year in a row, head coach <strong>Andy Johns <\/strong>was named the WAC Swim Coach of the Year. Diving coach <strong>Nikki Huffman<\/strong>\u00a0also was named the WAC Diving Coach of the Year. Additional <a href=\"http:\/\/nauathletics.com\/sports\/wswimdive\/2015-16\/releases\/201602280u8scn\">swim and dive victory highlights<\/a> can be viewed online.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_20160228_112433-e1457025732440.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-42187\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-42187 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_20160228_112433-e1457025732440-300x175.jpg\" alt=\"Men's Track and Field Big Sky Conference Champions\" width=\"300\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2016\/03\/IMG_20160228_112433-e1457025732440-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2016\/03\/IMG_20160228_112433-e1457025732440-768x449.jpg 768w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2016\/03\/IMG_20160228_112433-e1457025732440.jpg 925w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Continuing the momentum, the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nauathletics.com\/sports\/track\/index\">NAU men\u2019s track and field team<\/a> secured its\u00a0fifth consecutive\u00a0indoor Big Sky Conference title in Bozeman, Mont., bringing the team&#8217;s total to 19 indoor team titles.\u00a0The meet produced seven individual winners including Junior\u00a0<strong>Futsum Zienasellassie<\/strong>, who earned, the Big Sky\u2019s Most Valuable Athlete for the second year in a row. Lumberjack weight throws and shot put\u00a0also swept the men&#8217;s competition\u00a0for the sixth time in program history.<\/p>\n<p>Director of track and field and cross country, <strong>Eric Heins,\u00a0<\/strong>was\u00a0named the 2016 Big Sky Men&#8217;s Indoor Coach of the Year for the fifth consecutive year.\u00a0Read more about the <a href=\"http:\/\/nauathletics.com\/sports\/track\/2015-16\/releases\/20160227wyuu0g\">track and field successes<\/a> online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/historic-victories-in-the-books-for-lumberjack-athletics\/\">NAU Athletics teams blew past the competition on their way to record-setting conference championship finishes. With the fifth largest margin of victory in conference history, NAU swimming and diving\u00a0dominated the field and clinched their third-straight Western Athletic Conference championship in Houston. Junior\u00a0Alexa Geiger\u00a0became\u00a0the first Lumberjack diver since 2008 to receive the Diver of the Year&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":42267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[54,1241,38,459,1240,1242,1243],"class_list":["post-42182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-community","tag-big-sky-conference","tag-big-sky-conference-championships","tag-nau","tag-nau-athletics","tag-northern-arizona-unviersity","tag-swimming-and-diving","tag-track-and-field"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}