{"id":51567,"date":"2018-06-07T08:39:28","date_gmt":"2018-06-07T15:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=51567"},"modified":"2018-06-07T08:40:29","modified_gmt":"2018-06-07T15:40:29","slug":"tyler-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/tyler-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Running &#8216;Jack: All-American runner Tyler Day talks about running success (VIDEO)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <strong>Erik Sather<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>NAU-TV<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Running was the fourth sport a teenage <strong>Tyler Day<\/strong> tried at his Gilbert high school. It turned out to be the right fit for the Lumberjack cross country standout, who has been a part of two national championships and on Wednesday competed in the NCAA championship in Eugene, Oregon, in which he came in fourth with a time of 28:39.03. Was it thanks to his hair? Hear Day talk about his hairdo.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YDCE0mhaRKw\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>He qualified for the 10,000-meter national championship run last week at the NCAA West preliminary, where he came in sixth with a time of 29:15.25, a second behind the first-place qualifier and .03 seconds behind teammate <strong>Matt Baxter<\/strong>. Baxter finished in 28:39.35, earning a fifth-place finish.<\/p>\n<p>Day and Baxter, both All-Americans, were joined by freshman <strong>Luis Grijalva<\/strong>, who earned an All-American honorable mention in his 15th-place finish in the 1,500-meter semifinal. <a href=\"https:\/\/nauathletics.com\/news\/2018\/6\/7\/track-field-day-and-baxter-end-season-as-all-americans-grijalva-earns-all-american-honorable-mention-on-the-first-day-of-the-ncaa-championships.aspx\">Read more about the meet and the other Lumberjacks competing.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/tyler-day\/\">By Erik Sather NAU-TV Running was the fourth sport a teenage Tyler Day tried at his Gilbert high school. It turned out to be the right fit for the Lumberjack cross country standout, who has been a part of two national championships and on Wednesday competed in the NCAA championship in Eugene, Oregon, in which&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":51595,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-community"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51567","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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}