{"id":8700,"date":"2020-02-24T17:01:21","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T22:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/?p=8700"},"modified":"2023-08-04T09:28:03","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T13:28:03","slug":"making-the-most-of-a-first-impression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/making-the-most-of-a-first-impression\/","title":{"rendered":"Making the Most of a First Impression"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In its debut season in the America East Conference, the field\nhockey team captured the East Division Regular Season Championship outright,\nposting a perfect 5-0 record in league play. Five Hawks were named to\nall-conference teams, and the coaching staff, led by Carli Figlio, was\nrecognized as the conference staff of the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Monmouth, which hosted the conference tournament, entered as\nthe No. 1 seed. The Blue and White defeated the California Golden Bears, 4-3,\nin the semifinals before falling in the final minutes of the champion- ship to\nStanford, 2\u20131.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Hawks, who finished 14-5 on the season, were ranked in the Penn Monto\/National Field Hockey Coaches Association National Coaches Poll for seven consecutive weeks\u2014the last two at No. 20, the program\u2019s highest-ever ranking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Field hockey wins regular season championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":8703,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"image_focus":"","hide_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[94,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","category-play"],"thumbnail":"<img width=\"300\" height=\"291\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/02\/21-Field-Hockey-vs-Stanfor-2-by-KARLEE-SELL-300x291.jpg\" class=\"lazyload wp-image-8703 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\/2020\/02\/21-Field-Hockey-vs-Stanfor-2-by-KARLEE-SELL-300x291.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/02\/21-Field-Hockey-vs-Stanfor-2-by-KARLEE-SELL-768x744.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/02\/21-Field-Hockey-vs-Stanfor-2-by-KARLEE-SELL-560x543.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/02\/21-Field-Hockey-vs-Stanfor-2-by-KARLEE-SELL-280x271.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/02\/21-Field-Hockey-vs-Stanfor-2-by-KARLEE-SELL-320x310.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/02\/21-Field-Hockey-vs-Stanfor-2-by-KARLEE-SELL-640x620.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/02\/21-Field-Hockey-vs-Stanfor-2-by-KARLEE-SELL-828x802.jpg 828w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/02\/21-Field-Hockey-vs-Stanfor-2-by-KARLEE-SELL-360x349.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/02\/21-Field-Hockey-vs-Stanfor-2-by-KARLEE-SELL-9x9.jpg 9w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/02\/21-Field-Hockey-vs-Stanfor-2-by-KARLEE-SELL.jpg 929w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>","catString":"Athletics, Play","issue":"Spring 2020","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8700","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=8700"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8708,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8700\/revisions\/8708"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}