{"id":1514,"date":"2016-09-08T13:07:08","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T13:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/?p=1514"},"modified":"2019-06-12T10:24:01","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T15:24:01","slug":"jordan-and-thorup-honored-at-banquet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/2016\/09\/08\/jordan-and-thorup-honored-at-banquet\/","title":{"rendered":"Jordan and Thorup Honored at Banquet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Griffon football\u2019s Michael Jordan was named Male Student-Athlete of the Year and volleyball\u2019s Jessie Thorup Female Student-Athlete of the Year at the 17<sup>th<\/sup> Annual MWSU\/St. Joseph News-Press Student-Athlete Honors Banquet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2016\/09\/Honors_Banquet_2016__04_25_16_7627.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2016\/09\/Honors_Banquet_2016__04_25_16_7627-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"honors_banquet_2016__04_25_16_7627\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1515\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2016\/09\/Honors_Banquet_2016__04_25_16_7627-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2016\/09\/Honors_Banquet_2016__04_25_16_7627-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2016\/09\/Honors_Banquet_2016__04_25_16_7627-400x266.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2016\/09\/Honors_Banquet_2016__04_25_16_7627-600x399.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2016\/09\/Honors_Banquet_2016__04_25_16_7627-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2016\/09\/Honors_Banquet_2016__04_25_16_7627-800x532.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2016\/09\/Honors_Banquet_2016__04_25_16_7627-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2016\/09\/Honors_Banquet_2016__04_25_16_7627-1200x798.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The two were selected from 11 nominees who were named for each sport: Yasmine El Ghazi (women\u2019s tennis), Ryan Hand (men\u2019s golf), Shi Qing Ong (women\u2019s golf), Leslie Grier (cheer squad), Janie Smith (softball), Cosimo Cannella (baseball), Sydney Andrews (soccer), Kevin Thomas (men\u2019s basketball) and Sarafina Handy (women\u2019s basketball).<\/p>\n<p>The Tom Smith Career Achievement Award went to Jordan and Yomi Alli (football), Raphael Spencer (football), Jordan Chohon and Thorup (volleyball) and LaQuinta Jefferson (women\u2019s basketball).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Griffon football\u2019s Michael Jordan was named Male Student-Athlete of the Year and volleyball\u2019s Jessie Thorup Female Student-Athlete of the Year at the 17th Annual MWSU\/St. Joseph News-Press Student-Athlete Honors Banquet. The two were selected from 11 nominees who were named for each sport: Yasmine El Ghazi (women\u2019s tennis), Ryan Hand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4414,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514\/revisions\/4414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}