{"id":45684,"date":"2016-11-16T10:47:21","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T17:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=45684"},"modified":"2016-11-16T10:48:32","modified_gmt":"2016-11-16T17:48:32","slug":"nau-mens-cross-country-seeks-ncaa-championship-title-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/nau-mens-cross-country-seeks-ncaa-championship-title-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"NAU men\u2019s cross country seeks NCAA championship title this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ranked No. 1 \u00a0in the nation, the Lumberjack\u00a0men\u2019s cross country team is <a href=\"http:\/\/nauathletics.com\/sports\/xc\/2016-17\/releases\/20161114nrhos3\">headed to the NCAA Championship<\/a>\u00a0this Saturday, Nov. 19, in Terre Haute, Ind., in hopes\u00a0of earning\u00a0NAU\u2019s first\u00a0national championship win.<\/p>\n<p>NAU\u00a0secured their spot in finals\u00a0by winning the NCAA Mountain Region on Nov. 11.\u00a0It was the\u00a0third regional championship victory in the last five seasons for the NAU men, as three top-10 and five top-25 performances guided the Lumberjacks to their sixth team victory of the 2016 season. In fact, it was only the sixth time in the history of the program the Lumberjacks had three top-10 finishers at regionals.<\/p>\n<p>This week, Coach<strong> Eric Heins<\/strong> was <a href=\"http:\/\/nauathletics.com\/sports\/xc\/2016-17\/releases\/20161115oi7u44\">honored as\u00a0the Regional Coach of the Year in the Mountain Region<\/a> by the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association. NAU Senior <strong>Futsum Zienasellassie<\/strong> received the Regional Athlete of the Year for winning the Mountain Region Individual title with a time of 30:54.1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/nau-mens-cross-country-seeks-ncaa-championship-title-weekend\/\">Ranked No. 1 \u00a0in the nation, the Lumberjack\u00a0men\u2019s cross country team is headed to the NCAA Championship\u00a0this Saturday, Nov. 19, in Terre Haute, Ind., in hopes\u00a0of earning\u00a0NAU\u2019s first\u00a0national championship win. NAU\u00a0secured their spot in finals\u00a0by winning the NCAA Mountain Region on Nov. 11.\u00a0It was the\u00a0third regional championship victory in the last five seasons for the&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":45685,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[35,51,1607,459],"class_list":["post-45684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-happenings","tag-athletics-2","tag-cross-country","tag-mens-cross-country","tag-nau-athletics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45684","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\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}