{"id":2149,"date":"2018-09-12T14:42:06","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T14:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/?p=2149"},"modified":"2019-06-12T10:24:53","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T15:24:53","slug":"new-coach-named","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/2018\/09\/12\/new-coach-named\/","title":{"rendered":"New Coach Named"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2150\" style=\"width: 172px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2018\/09\/Litvinski.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2018\/09\/Litvinski-300x294.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"162\" height=\"159\" class=\" wp-image-2150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2018\/09\/Litvinski-50x50.jpg 50w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2018\/09\/Litvinski-66x66.jpg 66w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2018\/09\/Litvinski-200x196.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2018\/09\/Litvinski-300x294.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2018\/09\/Litvinski.jpg 337w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 162px) 100vw, 162px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2150\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yuriy Litvinski<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Yuriy Litvinski was named the new head coach of men\u2019s and women\u2019s cross country and track &amp; field teams in July 2018. He had been the assistant at Idaho State University, an NCAA Division I school since 2016 and women\u2019s assistant coach at Angelo State University in Texas.<br \/>\nLitvinski directed meet management in addition to coaching sprints and horizontal jumps, and assisting pole vaulters. In 2017, nine of the athletes he coached turned in Big Sky All-conference performances.<\/p>\n<p>He was a three-time national qualifier in the triple jump at University of Northern Iowa (Div. I) and took fourth at the national event in 2006. He was also a six-time national champion in his native Bulgaria. Litvinski earned a bachelor\u2019s degree from UNI and a master\u2019s from University of Central Missouri.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yuriy Litvinski was named the new head coach of men\u2019s and women\u2019s cross country and track &amp; field teams in July 2018. He had been the assistant at Idaho State University, an NCAA Division I school since 2016 and women\u2019s assistant coach at Angelo State University in Texas. Litvinski directed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2149"}],"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=2149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4494,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2149\/revisions\/4494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}