{"id":160658,"date":"2022-12-01T04:47:58","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T09:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=160658"},"modified":"2022-12-02T04:44:28","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T09:44:28","slug":"lincolnview-elementary-boys-excel-on-the-ice-in-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2022\/12\/01\/lincolnview-elementary-boys-excel-on-the-ice-in-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Lincolnview boys excel on the ice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent staff\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ask any Lincolnview Lancer fan about their favorite sport and you\u2019re likely to hear baseball, basketball, volleyball, cross country, softball, and so on, but that\u2019s not the case for Lincolnview Elementary School students Dylan Rank and Wyatt Slusher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The two recently competed in the CCM Nations Cup, which is a USA vs. Canada hockey tournament, held November 25-27 in Detroit, Michigan. Both boys represented Team USA and each won their respective age divisions over Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"350\" height=\"323\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Dylan-Rank-Wyatt-Slusher-11-2022-e1669974239246.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-160660\"\/><figcaption>Wyatt Slusher and Dylan Rank are top notch hockey players and students. <em>Photo submitted<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Slusher, a fifth grader, loves the Tampa Bay Lightning and has been playing hockey for three years. His favorite part is spending time with his teammates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI became interested in hockey after I went to a Fort Wayne Komets game,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He has traveled far and wide to pursue his favorite sport and dreams of playing in the NHL someday. Wyatt is right wing on his team and looks forward to his three hour practice sessions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rank, a fourth grader at Lincolnview Elementary, is his team\u2019s goalie and has played for five years. He began playing hockey because he thought it would be fun. He cheers on the Columbus Blue Jackets. He especially enjoys skating outside at his house and the friends he\u2019s made through the sport. Though he routinely quotes hockey stats for the entire NHL, his favorite player is Blue Jackets goaltender Elvis Merzilkins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe moves quickly in the crease and is a really competitive player,\u201d Rank shared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In their spare time, the two boys are straight-A students and devoted to their friends and siblings, and it was noted they bring the teamwork they\u2019ve learned on the ice to Lincolnview Elementary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent staff\/submitted information Ask any Lincolnview Lancer fan about their favorite sport and you\u2019re likely to hear baseball, basketball, volleyball, cross country, softball, and so on, but that\u2019s not the case for Lincolnview Elementary School students Dylan Rank and Wyatt Slusher. The two recently competed in the CCM Nations Cup, which is a USA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-23 11:59:12","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\/160658","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=160658"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160733,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160658\/revisions\/160733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}