{"id":23297,"date":"2024-12-16T12:32:28","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T17:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/troy-record-local-freshman-faraj-brings-international-expertise-to-surging-hvcc\/"},"modified":"2024-12-16T12:32:28","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T17:32:28","slug":"troy-record-local-freshman-faraj-brings-international-expertise-to-surging-hvcc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/troy-record-local-freshman-faraj-brings-international-expertise-to-surging-hvcc\/","title":{"rendered":"Troy Record: Local freshman, Faraj, brings international expertise to surging HVCC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>A feature on the HVCC women&#8217;s basketball team and freshman Myanna Faraj by Drew Wemple, Troy Record Sports.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>TROY, N.Y. \u2014 Hudson Valley Community College freshman Myanna Faraj had a much different offseason regimen than most. This past summer, much of her training and play didn\u2019t even happen on U.S. soil.<\/p>\n<p>Faraj, 18, is of Lebanese descent, and annually visits her father\u2019s side of the family, in their home country, each summer. This summer, the nature of her visit was much different. It was a business trip, as she played on the U18 Lebanese women\u2019s national team, in FIBA\u2019s (International Basketball Federation) 2024 Asia Cup.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt all started when I was playing with my high school team. They scouted me, found out that I\u2019m Lebanese, and they liked the way I played,\u201d Faraj, a Tamarac High School graduate said in a recent interview. \u201cSo they flew me over to try out and I made the team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I got over there, (family) was all still coming to support me. It\u2019s like my second home,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Read full article at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.troyrecord.com\/2024\/12\/14\/njcaa-womens-basketball-local-freshman-faraj-brings-international-expertise-to-surging-hvcc\/\">TroyRecord.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"newSsLks20\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.troyrecord.com\/2024\/12\/14\/njcaa-womens-basketball-local-freshman-faraj-brings-international-expertise-to-surging-hvcc\/\">NJCAA WOMEN\u2019S BASKETBALL: Local freshman, Faraj, brings international expertise to surging HVCC<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;NJCAA WOMEN\u2019S BASKETBALL: Local freshman, Faraj, brings international expertise to surging HVCC&#8221; &#8212; Troy Record\" src=\"https:\/\/www.troyrecord.com\/2024\/12\/14\/njcaa-womens-basketball-local-freshman-faraj-brings-international-expertise-to-surging-hvcc\/embed\/#?secret=ojdlyCfl50#?secret=newSsLks20\" data-secret=\"newSsLks20\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published:<\/strong>\u00a0Mon, 16 Dec 2024 12:32:28 +0000 by\u00a0a.sopris<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A feature on the HVCC women&#8217;s basketball team and freshman Myanna Faraj by Drew Wemple, Troy Record Sports. TROY,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23297","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=23297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}