{"id":24224,"date":"2020-10-30T00:13:34","date_gmt":"2020-10-30T07:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/?p=24224"},"modified":"2020-10-30T06:34:32","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T13:34:32","slug":"happy-birthday-courtney-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/2020\/10\/happy-birthday-courtney-west\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy birthday, Courtney West!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_24225\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/15F_2878-RAW-courtney-west-sou-womens-basketball-topaz-denoise-ai-clear.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24225\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/15F_2878-RAW-courtney-west-sou-womens-basketball-topaz-denoise-ai-clear.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24225\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtney West<\/p><\/div>\n<p>@SOURaiders @souwbb <\/p>\n<p>Courtney transferred (with <a href=https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/2014\/02\/think-pink\/>her coach<\/a>) to PSU after her freshman year. She went on to average over 10 points a game in her college career, with over 2.5 blocks per game, and was named the 2018-19 Big Sky Defensive Player of the Year. One can&#8217;t help but wonder if, had she stayed at SOU, the Raiders could have won a national championship or two with her. PSU went 4-26 the year before she arrived, improved dramatically every year, and won the conference with a 25-8 record during her senior season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>@SOURaiders @souwbb Courtney transferred (with her coach) to PSU after her freshman year. She went on to average over 10 points a game in her college career, with over 2.5 blocks per game, and was named the 2018-19 Big Sky Defensive Player of the Year. One can&#8217;t help but wonder if, had she stayed at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,11],"tags":[127,931,245],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24224"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24224"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24409,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24224\/revisions\/24409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}