{"id":68700,"date":"2022-10-24T16:25:34","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T21:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=68700"},"modified":"2022-10-24T16:25:37","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T21:25:37","slug":"brandt-earns-miaa-honor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=68700","title":{"rendered":"Brandt earns MIAA honor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By FHSU SPORTS INFORMATION<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KANSAS CITY, Mo. &#8211; Fort Hays State defensive back\u00a0<dfn><a href=\"http:\/\/fhsuathletics.com\/services\/go.ashx\/e91b5784-0576-4402-b89b-e525336c6591?elinkdata=195926\">Sam Brandt<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0was named the MIAA Defensive Athlete of the Week on Monday (Oct. 24), presented by Mammoth Sports Construction. He was instrumental in Fort Hays State picking up a 27-14 win over Central Missouri this past Saturday in Hays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brandt produced nine tackles, an interception, and two pass breakups in the 13-point win for the Tigers. His interception in the second quarter led to Fort Hays State taking a 10-7 lead. He picked off the pass at the UCM 35-yardline, setting up a short field for the offense to pick up its first touchdown of the game. FHSU held the lead for the remainder of the game. The nine tackles were a new career high for Brandt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brant joined James Letcher, Jr. of Washburn (Offensive Athlete of the Week) and Kashan Griffin of Northwest Missouri State (Special Teams Athlete of the Week).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By FHSU SPORTS INFORMATION KANSAS CITY, Mo. &#8211; Fort Hays State defensive back\u00a0Sam Brandt\u00a0was named the MIAA Defensive Athlete of the Week on Monday (Oct.&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":[3387,7349],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football-sports","category-sports"],"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\/68700","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=68700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68701,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68700\/revisions\/68701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}