{"id":104090,"date":"2016-11-04T12:09:59","date_gmt":"2016-11-04T16:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=104090"},"modified":"2017-02-23T13:18:39","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T18:18:39","slug":"jacqueline-forney-18-sets-up-bates-volleyball-team-for-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2016\/11\/04\/jacqueline-forney-18-sets-up-bates-volleyball-team-for-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Jacqueline Forney &#8217;18 sets up Bates volleyball for success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the volleyball team&#8217;s setter, Jacqueline Forney &#8217;18 of Bloomington, Ind., controls the flow of the offense, like a point guard in basketball.<\/p>\n<p>A team captain since sophomore year, Forney can&#8217;t be rattled, says head coach Melissa DeRan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She understands that a volleyball match is a lot of points and that short-term memory loss is your best asset,&#8221; DeRan says. &#8220;She doesn\u2019t get wrapped up in what happened two seconds ago, she\u2019s always looking ahead, always looking forward and ready for the next play.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jacqueline Forney sets up volleyball team for success | Bates Sports\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J6ulgAKMq-Y?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<p>An ability to focus on the here and now combined with a vision for the program&#8217;s future makes Forney a special athlete.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Five, 10 years down the road, when we\u2019re at the top of the NESCAC \u2014 that\u2019s what I\u2019m looking forward to,&#8221; says Forney. &#8220;And being able to come back and know that you were a part of creating this program.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bates takes on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nsnsports.net\/conferences\/nescac\/\">Middlebury tonight at 5 p.m.<\/a> in a quarterfinal game in the NESCAC Championships. And Forney has them set up for success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forney &#8220;doesn\u2019t get wrapped up in what happened two seconds ago,&#8221; says head coach Melissa DeRan. &#8220;She\u2019s always looking ahead, ready for the next play.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":758,"featured_media":104110,"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":[24,11012],"tags":[6322,6365,9103,9325],"class_list":["post-104090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","category-student-life","tag-ncaa","tag-nescac","tag-volleyball","tag-womens-volleyball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104090","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=104090"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104107,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104090\/revisions\/104107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}