{"id":1729,"date":"2017-05-12T18:27:16","date_gmt":"2017-05-12T18:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/?p=1729"},"modified":"2019-06-12T10:23:56","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T15:23:56","slug":"new-sports-teams-are-shaping-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/2017\/05\/12\/new-sports-teams-are-shaping-up\/","title":{"rendered":"New Sports Teams are Shaping Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Missouri Western will see six new teams in the 2017-18 academic year with the addition of men\u2019s and women\u2019s cross country, men\u2019s and women\u2019s indoor track and field, and men\u2019s and women\u2019s outdoor track and field.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1616\" style=\"width: 123px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2017\/01\/Bierbaum-Mug.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1616\" src=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2017\/01\/Bierbaum-Mug-243x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"113\" height=\"140\" class=\" wp-image-1616\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1616\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Coach Marc Bierbaum<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Head coach Marc Bierbaum hired assistant coach Cody Ingold and the two signed close to 60 student athletes for the teams. The teams will feature a mixture of new students to the university and some current students. Additionally, some team members are current students who have not previously participated in athletics at Missouri Western.<\/p>\n<p>Competition begins this fall with the men\u2019s and women\u2019s cross country teams.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Missouri Western will see six new teams in the 2017-18 academic year with the addition of men\u2019s and women\u2019s cross country, men\u2019s and women\u2019s indoor track and field, and men\u2019s and women\u2019s outdoor track and field. Head coach Marc Bierbaum hired assistant coach Cody Ingold and the two signed close [&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\/1729"}],"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=1729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4361,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729\/revisions\/4361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}