{"id":9573,"date":"2020-04-01T16:33:47","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T21:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/?p=9573"},"modified":"2020-04-15T16:39:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T21:39:00","slug":"news-press-now-international-student-athletes-leave-mwsu-return-home-amid-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/2020\/04\/01\/news-press-now-international-student-athletes-leave-mwsu-return-home-amid-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"News-Press NOW: International student-athletes leave MWSU, return home amid COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"author-popup-ba6dc75e-5b54-11e7-9152-5cb9017b3618-asset-e941aeb6-7464-11ea-84b4-bb09e1acc3b6\" class=\"tnt-byline asset-byline\" title=\"\" data-original-title=\"\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com\/newspressnow.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/9\/6f\/96fceefa-7468-11ea-9069-dba7297d489c\/5e8516ff33847.image.jpg?resize=1200%2C1145\" alt=\"missouri western women's golf\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1145\" \/>By Kristen Carver, News-Press NOW, <\/span>Apr 1, 2020<\/p>\n<p>The day freshman Farisha Radzi had been patiently waiting for quickly turned into a nightmare. Hours after she was eligible to compete with Missouri Western golf, the MIAA canceled its spring sports season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI found it on Twitter saying it was canceled and the funny story was that I was eligible that morning to play for tournaments. So I was basically eligible for like six hours,\u201d Radzi said.<\/p>\n<p>Following the sports cancellation due to the coronavirus pandemic, Western decided to close campus and move all classes online for the remainder of the semester.<\/p>\n<p>Radzi and her fellow international teammates were forced to make a quick decision on whether to stay or go home as borders neared shutdown.<\/p>\n<p>Read more and see the video version of the story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newspressnow.com\/coronavirus\/international-student-athletes-leave-western-return-home-amid-covid-19\/article_e941aeb6-7464-11ea-84b4-bb09e1acc3b6.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">at newspressnow.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Kristen Carver, News-Press NOW, Apr 1, 2020 The day freshman Farisha Radzi had been patiently waiting for quickly turned into a nightmare. Hours after she was eligible to compete with Missouri Western golf, the MIAA canceled its spring sports season. \u201cI found it on Twitter saying it was canceled and the funny story was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1076],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9573"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9574,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9573\/revisions\/9574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}