{"id":2739,"date":"2017-12-09T09:33:18","date_gmt":"2017-12-09T15:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rctc.edu\/echo\/?p=2739"},"modified":"2025-02-13T11:19:57","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T17:19:57","slug":"rager-nominated-for-coach-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/rager-nominated-for-coach-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Rager nominated for coach of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><b>Echo staff report<\/b><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11770\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11770\" class=\"wp-image-11770 \" src=\"\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Randy-Rager-1024x1280.jpg\" alt=\"Randy Rager\" width=\"200\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Randy-Rager-1024x1280.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Randy-Rager-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Randy-Rager-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Randy-Rager-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Randy-Rager-1638x2048.jpg 1638w, https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Randy-Rager.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11770\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Randy Rager<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"p2\">RCTC Head Wrestling Coach Randy Rager is finalist for Area Coach of the Year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Rager was nominated by Rochester Sports, formerly known as the Rochester Amateur Sports Commission.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">\u201cCoaching is often a thankless job,\u201d Rager said, \u201cand I\u2019ve always worked hard to do the best for our athletes. It feels good to be recognized for these efforts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Rager has twice been named NJCAA Division III National Coach of the year and Minnesota College Athletic Conference Wrestling Coach of the Year five times. Rager has also held the position of vice president of the NJCAA Coaches Association since 2014.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">\u201cWe are thrilled that the Rochester Amateur Sports Commission has named Coach Rager as a finalist for Coach of the Year,\u201d said RCTC Athletic Director Mike Lester. \u201cHis commitment to the students and student-athletes at RCTC is second to none. The Athletic Department, Department of Student Affairs and all of RCTC\u2019s faculty, staff and students are very proud of Randy and his young men.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">The winner of the Coach of the Year Award will be announced at the 13th annual Rochester Sports Banquet on Jan. at the Rochester Event Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RCTC Head Wrestling Coach Randy Rager is finalist for Area Coach of the Year. &#8220;We are thrilled that the Rochester Amateur Sports Commission has named Coach Rager as a finalist for Coach of the Year,&#8221; said RCTC Athletic Director Mike Lester. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":11770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}