{"id":106747,"date":"2018-09-07T06:38:26","date_gmt":"2018-09-07T11:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=106747"},"modified":"2018-09-07T06:39:07","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T11:39:07","slug":"saylor-is-the-student-athlete-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2018\/09\/07\/saylor-is-the-student-athlete-of-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Saylor is the Student Athlete of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-106749\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Riley-Saylor-9-7-18.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"624\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Riley-Saylor-9-7-18.jpg 550w, https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Riley-Saylor-9-7-18-529x600.jpg 529w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Crestview High School senior Riley Saylor is this week\u2019s VW independent\/Northwest Ohio Welch Trophy Student Athlete of the Week. Saylor, who was nominated by Athletic Administrator Trent Kreischer, plays football and baseball for the Knights and maintains a 3.3 GPA. \u201cRiley is a wide receiver and defensive back on the football team,\u201d Kreischer said. \u201cHe is also an excellent leader off the field, working hard to maintain excellent grades, as well as supporting other sports and organizations at Crestview.\u201d \u201cRiley was elected captain of the team by his peers, which is one of the greatest honors anyone can receive as a football player,\u201d Owens said. \u201cHe is an unselfish young man and tries to build relationships with all of his teammates regardless of which class they are in.\u201d Coaches and athletic directors may nominate student athletes for the weekly award by emailing <a href=\"mailto:sports@thevwindependent.com\">sports@thevwindependent.com<\/a>.<\/strong> <em>Scott Truxell\/Van Wert independent<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crestview High School senior Riley Saylor is this week\u2019s VW independent\/Northwest Ohio Welch Trophy Student Athlete of the Week. Saylor, who was nominated by Athletic Administrator Trent Kreischer, plays football and baseball for the Knights and maintains a 3.3 GPA. \u201cRiley is a wide receiver and defensive back on the football team,\u201d Kreischer said. \u201cHe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-24 22:00:23","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}