{"id":5024,"date":"2020-09-18T14:46:11","date_gmt":"2020-09-18T19:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/?p=5024"},"modified":"2021-08-18T11:26:31","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T16:26:31","slug":"lacrosse-begins-spring-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/2020\/09\/18\/lacrosse-begins-spring-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Lacrosse begins spring 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Griffon fans will be introduced to a new sport in 2021 as women\u2019s lacrosse begins its first season of competition. The addition of women\u2019s lacrosse as the 17th NCAA DII sport at Missouri Western was announced last November. Rachel Benzing was announced as the program\u2019s first-ever head coach in January and has been working tirelessly to assemble a roster through challenging times.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Benzing\u2019s Griffons will not compete in the MIAA, but in the Great Lakes Valley Conference. Missouri Western was the first MIAA member and first state institution in Missouri to add the sport, forcing the Griffons to look outside their home conference. In the team\u2019s first season, they will host three home conference games with additional non-conference competition in the spring. The Griffons will open the GLVC season on April 3 at Rockhurst before hosting Indianapolis in their GLVC home opener on April 9.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Griffon fans will be introduced to a new sport in 2021 as women\u2019s lacrosse begins its first season of competition. The addition of women\u2019s lacrosse as the 17th NCAA DII sport at Missouri Western was announced last November. Rachel Benzing was announced as the program\u2019s first-ever head coach in January [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":5366,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[33,21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5024"}],"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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5024"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5078,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5024\/revisions\/5078"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}