{"id":4338,"date":"2018-10-16T10:12:48","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T14:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/?p=4338"},"modified":"2023-08-04T09:29:33","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T13:29:33","slug":"sports-shorts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/sports-shorts\/","title":{"rendered":"Sports Shorts"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The Battle for the Garden State<\/h2>\n<p>Though separated by just 34 miles, Monmouth and Rutgers have never met on the football field. That will change on Sept. 5, 2020, when the Hawks travel to High Point Solutions Stadium for the program\u2019s first game against a Big Ten opponent. Don\u2019t say we didn\u2019t give you enough time to clear your calendar.<\/p>\n<h2>Reid on<\/h2>\n<p>Men\u2019s Basketball Head Coach King Rice added former NBA first-round pick J.R. Reid to his coaching staff for the upcoming season. Reid played professionally for 14 seasons, and was a consensus first team All-American at the University of North Carolina as well as a member of the 1988 USA Men\u2019s Basketball Olympic Team. He and Rice were teammates for two seasons at UNC.<\/p>\n<h2>New and improved<\/h2>\n<p>So Sweet A Cat Field and E. Todd Murray track inside Kessler Stadium received upgrades this past summer. So Sweet A Cat\u2019s new water-based turf system features a uniquely engineered polyethylene filament that gives it exceptional durability. And the new full pour polyurethane track and field system is Monmouth blue with grey exchange zones.<\/p>\n<p><em>Compiled from Office of Athletics Communication and New Media reports.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Karlee Sell\/Monmouth University Athletics.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News and notes on several Hawks teams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":4341,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"image_focus":"","hide_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[94,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","category-play"],"thumbnail":"<img width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/10\/reid-300x169.jpg\" class=\"lazyload wp-image-4341 wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" role=\"presentation\" style=\"object-position:50% 50%;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/10\/reid-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/10\/reid-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/10\/reid.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/10\/reid-560x315.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/10\/reid-280x158.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/10\/reid-320x180.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/10\/reid-640x360.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/10\/reid-828x466.jpg 828w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/10\/reid-360x203.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/10\/reid-9x5.jpg 9w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>","catString":"Athletics, Play","issue":"Fall 2018","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4344,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4338\/revisions\/4344"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}