{"id":57903,"date":"2021-01-13T08:06:53","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T14:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=57903"},"modified":"2021-01-13T08:06:55","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T14:06:55","slug":"cooper-named-miaa-athlete-of-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=57903","title":{"rendered":"Cooper named MIAA Athlete of Week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By FHSU SPORTS INFORMATION<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KANSAS CITY, Mo. &#8211; Fort Hays State senior wrestler <a href=\"https:\/\/linkprotect.cudasvc.com\/url?a=http%3a%2f%2ffhsuathletics.com%2fservices%2fgo.ashx%2fbc43fa78-9d1c-4f18-b5ce-08cfedc61ce7%3felinkdata%3d153522&amp;c=E,1,hORgMVngUHchk9Wk4uXLM74v2iXTWO9YZQsbF2ExLoLqR5XmvuBYtEym3IyfLbTfFv2SqdXwrjYmpjLg-eMgSfZbZhu4Mw_F54YoFjte2aS0zI7LRw,,&amp;typo=1\">A.J. Cooper<\/a> has been named the inaugural MIAA Wrestling Athlete of the Week for the 2020-21 season, announced Tuesday (Jan. 12) by the league office.<br><br> Cooper, the 10th-ranked wrestler at 285 pounds, opened his senior season with a pair of first period pins in Saturday&#8217;s FHSU Dual Jamboree (Jan. 9). The heavyweight opened his day with a win via fall in just 1:33 against Nathan Ellis of Adams State. Cooper added another first period pin in the second dual of the day against Colorado Mesa, sticking Gabriel Carranza to the mat in just 2:08<br><br> Cooper recorded 12 of FHSU&#8217;s 42 team points on the day. He is one of just 10 Division II wrestlers with multiple wins via pin so far this season.<br><br> This is Cooper&#8217;s second-career MIAA Athlete of the Week honor, previously earning the distinction as a junior (11\/26\/19).<br><br> The 12th-ranked Tigers are scheduled to continue their season Thursday when they travel west to take on No. 16 Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colo. beginning at 6 p.m. CT (5 p.m. MT). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By FHSU SPORTS INFORMATION KANSAS CITY, Mo. &#8211; Fort Hays State senior wrestler A.J. Cooper has been named the inaugural MIAA Wrestling Athlete of the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57904,"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-57903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-wrestling"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tigermedianet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/AJCooper.jpg?fit=300%2C169&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57903","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=57903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57905,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57903\/revisions\/57905"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/57904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}