{"id":93617,"date":"2017-09-29T05:28:11","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T10:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=93617"},"modified":"2017-09-29T05:28:11","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T10:28:11","slug":"place-is-named-student-athlete-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2017\/09\/29\/place-is-named-student-athlete-of-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Place is named Student-Athlete of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-93616\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/NatePlace.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"535\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Van Wert High School junior Nate Place is the Van Wert independent\/Northwest Ohio Welch Trophy Student-Athlete of the Week. Miller is the starting quarterback and plays defensive back for the Cougars. He has passed for 975 yards and eight touchdowns, and is the team&#8217;s leading rusher with 367 yards and five scores. Place, who was nominated by head coach Keith Recker, is also\u00a0 a starter on the varsity basketball team. Coaches and athletic directors may nominate student-athletes for the weekly award by e-mailing\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:sports@thevwindependent.com\">sports@thevwindependent.com<\/a>. Winners will receive a T-shirt, courtesy of Northwest Ohio Welch Trophy, 1034 Westwood Drive, Van Wert.<\/strong>\u00a0<em>Scott Truxell\/Van Wert independent<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert High School junior Nate Place is the Van Wert independent\/Northwest Ohio Welch Trophy Student-Athlete of the Week. Miller is the starting quarterback and plays defensive back for the Cougars. He has passed for 975 yards and eight touchdowns, and is the team&#8217;s leading rusher with 367 yards and five scores. Place, who was [&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-93617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-21 19:47:36","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\/93617","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=93617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}