{"id":11107,"date":"2018-06-18T12:05:40","date_gmt":"2018-06-18T16:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/campus-corner-athletics-department\/"},"modified":"2018-06-18T12:05:40","modified_gmt":"2018-06-18T16:05:40","slug":"campus-corner-athletics-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/campus-corner-athletics-department\/","title":{"rendered":"Campus Corner: Athletics Department"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The mission of the Hudson Valley Community College Athletics Department is to offer student-athletes the opportunity to participate in a competitive environment that fosters the highest levels of individual growth, self-discipline, respect, integrity and academic excellence.<\/p>\n<p>Many colleagues might be surprised to learn:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Athletics Department provides 18 varsity sports, which ranks Hudson Valley inside the top-10 nationally in terms of total number of sports offered to students.<\/li>\n<li>The men\u2019s outdoor track and field team won the 2018 NJCAA Region 3 championship in its first year back as an official varsity sport in more than 20 years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Fun facts&#8221; about Athletics:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mike Muehling, Vikings head football coach, coached for the Green Bay Blizzard of the Arena Football League, which is the same league as the Albany Empire.<\/li>\n<li>Justin Hoyt, Director of Athletics, worked for the Batavia Muckdogs of the New York-Penn League, the same league of the Tri City Valley Cats.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/CampusCorner_Athletics.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-85375 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/CampusCorner_Athletics-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"354\" height=\"236\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Tim Wilson, program assistant, Athletics &amp; Recreation; Chris Kelly, supervisor; Athletics &amp; Recreation; Keith Thomas, athletic trainer; Adam Sopris, assistant athletic director; Mike Muehling, Vikings head football coach, and Justin Hoyt, director of athletics; not pictured: Stephanie Clark, program assistant academics III.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published:<\/strong>\u00a0Mon, 18 Jun 2018 12:05:40 +0000 by\u00a0k.paquette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The mission of the Hudson Valley Community College Athletics Department is to offer student-athletes the opportunity to participate in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accolades"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}