{"id":951,"date":"2017-02-09T16:09:58","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T22:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rctc.edu\/echo\/?p=951"},"modified":"2025-09-24T12:39:56","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T18:39:56","slug":"rctc-wrestling-team-ranked-no-1-in-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/rctc-wrestling-team-ranked-no-1-in-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"RCTC wrestling team ranked No. 1 in nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>By Zachary Deppa<\/b><br>\nSports Editor<br>\nZachary.deppa<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_952\" style=\"width: 438px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-952\" class=\"wp-image-952\" src=\"\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_0742-300x200.gif\" alt=\"Wrestling match participants grappling\" width=\"428\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_0742-300x200.gif 300w, https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_0742-768x512.gif 768w, https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_0742-1024x683.gif 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 428px) 100vw, 428px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-952\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">RCTC freshman Alfred Daniel is seen in action against Noah Landrus of Itasca Community College during a home meet on Jan. 18. Daniel is ranked eighth in the nation at 165 pounds. (Echo Photo by Pennijo Brenke)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>RCTC\u2019s wrestling team is ranked No. 1 among all National Junior College Athletic Association non-scholarship schools and No. 10 among all schools.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are many hard-working student athletes on this team,\u201d RCTC Head Coach, Randy Rager, said. \u201cTo be successful it takes hard work and sacrifice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There are three RCTC wrestlers who are nationally ranked. Coltan Laganiere is ranked No. 4 at 149 pounds, Brett Bradford is ranked No. 2 at 157 pounds, and Alfred Daniel is ranked No. 8 at 165 pounds.<\/p>\n<p>The Yellowjackets\u2019 next dual meet will be Friday, Feb. 10, at St. John\u2019s University in Collegeville, Minn. Two days later, the Yellowjackets will compete in the NJCAA qualifying meet at Ridgewater College in Thief River Falls, Minn.<\/p>\n<p>The NJCAA national tournament will be held Feb. 24-25 in Council Bluffs, Iowa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Zachary Deppa Sports Editor Zachary.deppa RCTC\u2019s wrestling team is ranked No. 1 among all National Junior College Athletic Association non-scholarship schools and No. 10 among all schools. \u201cThere are many hard-working student athletes on this team,\u201d RCTC Head Coach, Randy Rager, said. \u201cTo be successful it takes hard work and sacrifice.\u201d There are three [&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":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951","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=951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}