{"id":57532,"date":"2019-10-23T17:08:09","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T00:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=57532"},"modified":"2019-10-23T17:08:11","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T00:08:11","slug":"in-the-student-spotlight-oct-25-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/in-the-student-spotlight-oct-25-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Student Spotlight: Oct. 25, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kudos to these students<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Do you have a spotlight item to share with the NAU community?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Email your announcements to&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:Inside@nau.edu\">Inside@nau.edu<\/a>, or use&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/news-tip\/#.XVwzh5NKhsY\">our online submission form<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The <strong>men&#8217;s cross country team<\/strong> was ranked first in the Mountain Region in the latest\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ustfccca.org\/2019\/10\/featured\/2019-ncaa-di-mens-cross-country-regional-rankings-week-5\">U.S. Track &amp; Field and Cross Country Association&#8217;s Regional Rankings<\/a>. Week five&#8217;s slate saw the Lumberjack men continue their reign atop the Mountain Region for the\u00a027th\u00a0consecutive week, tying the modern era records for weeks atop this poll.<\/li><li>The <strong>women&#8217;s cross country team<\/strong> was ranked in the top three in the Mountain Region in the latest\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ustfccca.org\/2019\/10\/featured\/2019-ncaa-di-womens-cross-country-regional-rankings-week-5\">U.S. Track &amp; Field and Cross Country Association&#8217;s Regional Rankings<\/a>. The NAU women moved from the No. 6 spot to the No. 3 spot after a sixth-place team finish at the\u00a0Nuttycombe\u00a0Wisconsin Invitational.<\/li><li>Runner <strong>Luis Grijalva<\/strong> was named the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bigskyconf.com\/news\/2019\/10\/21\/cross-country-grijalva-eastwood-earn-bigskyxc-athlete-of-the-week-accolades.aspx\">Big Sky Conference Men\u2019s Cross Country Athlete of the Week<\/a>. Grijalva earned his second award of the season for his fifth-place performance at the Nuttycombe Wisconsin Invitational. He completed the 8K course in a time of 23:43.2.<\/li><li>School of Communication students\u00a0<strong>Sarah Booth\u00a0<\/strong>and <strong>Tinia Witherspoon<\/strong> had their films featured at the Arizona Women\u2019s Film Festival. Booth entered her film \u201cAlways Powerful,\u201d and Witherspoon entered \u201cMedicine and Obligation.\u201d These students had to compete with professional filmmakers to gain acceptance into the festival.\u00a0<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/in-the-student-spotlight-oct-25-2019\/\">Kudos to these students Do you have a spotlight item to share with the NAU community? Email your announcements to&nbsp;Inside@nau.edu, or use&nbsp;our online submission form. The men&#8217;s cross country team was ranked first in the Mountain Region in the latest\u00a0U.S. Track &amp; Field and Cross Country Association&#8217;s Regional Rankings. Week five&#8217;s slate saw the Lumberjack&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57532","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\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}