{"id":45757,"date":"2019-05-17T11:13:39","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T16:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=45757"},"modified":"2019-05-17T11:13:44","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T16:13:44","slug":"ball-named-to-cosida-academic-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=45757","title":{"rendered":"Ball named to CoSIDA academic team"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By FHSU SPORTS INFORMATION<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/linkprotect.cudasvc.com\/url?a=http%3a%2f%2ffhsuathletics.com%2fservices%2fgo.ashx%2f4f4c81b0-85a8-42e2-aef3-74612135436d%3felinkdata%3d132530&amp;c=E,1,V5TMRGqRaVK7ASAnSl0vyeyCbIyzRnVzwOy2jHCYgFk3ncZe7EI2q_AmuE5mMCFj0hL2OfVUIJHTwIUTMG2nstBAl57MDVasVKHmRZkEKBtM5A,,&amp;typo=1\">Brandon Ball<\/a> of Fort Hays State Wrestling was named to the CoSIDA Academic All-District Team for At-Large Sports on Thursday (May 16). Ball is one of just 11 student-athletes on the District 7 Team chosen from several sports that are part of the at-large category. Men&#8217;s sports included in the at-large category include wrestling, fencing, golf, gymnastics, ice hockey, lacrosse, rifle, skiing, swimming, tennis, volleyball, and water polo.<br><br> Ball is a Technology Studies major at Fort Hays State. He carries a 3.77 cumulative GPA. The CoSIDA Academic All-District and All-America programs are voted on based off both a student-athlete&#8217;s academic and athletic accomplishments.<br><br> Ball is one of the top wrestlers in NCAA Division II. He held the No. 1 ranking at 141 pounds from February 4 all the way through to the NCAA Championships at the end of the 2018-19 season. Ball entered the NCAA Championships undefeated at 24-0 and won his first three matches before dropping an overtime decision in the semifinals. He went on to earn All-America honors with a fourth-place finish, completing the year at 28-2 overall. In the process, Ball ran his career record at FHSU to 114-21.<br><br> Ball is a three-time member of the NWCA Division II All-Academic Team and a two-time All-America performer on the mat. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By FHSU SPORTS INFORMATION Brandon Ball of Fort Hays State Wrestling was named to the CoSIDA Academic All-District Team for At-Large Sports on Thursday (May&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[7349,784],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","category-wrestling"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45758,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45757\/revisions\/45758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}