{"id":83671,"date":"2024-11-25T08:20:03","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T14:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=83671"},"modified":"2024-11-25T08:20:04","modified_gmt":"2024-11-25T14:20:04","slug":"diercks-71st-at-national-meet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=83671","title":{"rendered":"Diercks 71st at national meet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By FHSU SPORTS INFORMATION<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SACRAMENTO, Calif. &#8211; Junior long-distance runner\u00a0<dfn><a href=\"http:\/\/fhsuathletics.com\/services\/go.ashx\/e1e497b1-02cf-4f6c-91c8-794a21857134?elinkdata=242780\">Emily Diercks<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0represented the Fort Hays State women&#8217;s cross country team at the 2024 NCAA Division II Championships on Saturday (Nov. 23), placing 71st in the field of 261 runners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Diercks completed the six-kilometer track at the Haggin Oaks Golf Complex in 21:49.5, second-fastest amongst runners from MIAA schools and seventh-best amongst Central Region competitors. The Hoxie, Kan. native ran her fastest split over the first kilometer of the race, passing the 1K pole in 3:23.4 to sit in 48th at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Hoxie, Kan. native turned in a strong season, winning twice and finishing in the top seven at each of her first five races. She was the MIAA individual champion and was an All-Region selection after placing seventh at the regional championships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Diercks&#8217; appearance at the national meet gave FHSU at least one runner in the race for the ninth time out of the last 12 national championships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By FHSU SPORTS INFORMATION SACRAMENTO, Calif. &#8211; Junior long-distance runner\u00a0Emily Diercks\u00a0represented the Fort Hays State women&#8217;s cross country team at the 2024 NCAA Division II&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[319,7349],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cross-country","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83672,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83671\/revisions\/83672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}