{"id":7666,"date":"2019-03-16T11:46:51","date_gmt":"2019-03-16T17:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rctc.edu\/echo\/?p=7666"},"modified":"2025-09-24T10:11:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T16:11:28","slug":"wrestlers-head-to-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wrestlers-head-to-nationals\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrestlers head to nationals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Zakiya Abu<br>\nSports Editor<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7668\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7668\" class=\"wp-image-7668 size-medium\" src=\"\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/wrestling-I-adjusted-copy-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"RCTC wrestler at a match\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/wrestling-I-adjusted-copy-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/wrestling-I-adjusted-copy.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7668\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cJeremy Colon competes in the Yellowjacket Open earlier this season.\u201d(Photo courtesy of RCTC Athletics)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In the world of RCTC wrestling, August marks the beginning of their reunion where captains practice is started. Then, in October, official practice begins, and November is when all the competitions begin.<br>\nThe NJCAA national tournament, running March 1-2 in Council Bluffs, Iowa, brings the season to an end.<br>\nDillon McGee, Tyler Zeman, Isaac Haman, Shane Siewert, Alex LaPierre and Morgen Moreno all qualified for nationals.<br>\nThe team is currently in a maintenance phase of training and will be ready for the tournament in the beginning of March, said Head Coach Randy Rager.<br>\nThe Yellowjackets won the MCAC State Tournament for the seventh consecutive year. They also won the North District Region XIII Tournament.<br>\nShane Siewart won MCAC Wrestler of the year and Rager earned MCAC and Region XIII Coach of the Year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Zakiya Abu Sports Editor In the world of RCTC wrestling, August marks the beginning of their reunion where captains practice is started. Then, in October, official practice begins, and November is when all the competitions begin. The NJCAA national tournament, running March 1-2 in Council Bluffs, Iowa, brings the season to an end. Dillon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7666","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=7666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}