{"id":103551,"date":"2016-10-07T12:35:14","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T16:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=103551"},"modified":"2024-07-08T14:33:01","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T18:33:01","slug":"video-footballs-mark-upton-tackles-everything-on-and-off-the-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2016\/10\/07\/video-footballs-mark-upton-tackles-everything-on-and-off-the-field\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: For football&#8217;s Mark Upton &#8217;17, commitment to Bates comes first"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the football team takes to Garcelon Field on Saturday vs. Williams, keep an eye on No. 48 when the Bobcats are on defense.<\/p>\n<p>His name is Mark Upton &#8217;17 of Winthrop, Mass., and he&#8217;s the reigning NESCAC Defensive Player of the Week after making a career-high 17 tackles vs. Tufts last week.<\/p>\n<p>An All-New England selection in 2015, Upton is also a semifinalist for the\u00a0National Football Foundation&#8217;s William V. Campbell Trophy for scholar-athletes.<\/p>\n<p>But as we learned, Upton&#8217;s value to his team goes beyond statistics. &#8220;The essence of Mark is someone who honors his word and honors his commitment,&#8221; says teammate and friend Andrew Segal &#8217;17 of Glencoe, Ill.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"For star linebacker Mark Upton, commitment to Bates College comes first\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HmgNAQ8qwOc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An All-New England linebacker, Upton &#8220;honors his word and honors his commitment,&#8221; says a teammate. And that includes how he came to Bates in the first place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":758,"featured_media":103555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[24,11011],"tags":[1208,10875,10834],"class_list":["post-103551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","category-awards","tag-back-to-bates","tag-football","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103551"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103568,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103551\/revisions\/103568"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}