{"id":104558,"date":"2016-11-18T11:26:34","date_gmt":"2016-11-18T16:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=104558"},"modified":"2018-06-04T09:20:50","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T13:20:50","slug":"video-bates-and-bowdoin-team-up-to-honor-the-late-marsha-graef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2016\/11\/18\/video-bates-and-bowdoin-team-up-to-honor-the-late-marsha-graef\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Bates and Bowdoin team up to honor the late Marsha Graef"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"js_32\" class=\"_5pbx userContent\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}\">\n<p>In their first weekend of play, the Bates and Bowdoin women&#8217;s basketball teams will find common ground on their home courts of Alumni Gym and Morrell Gym.<\/p>\n<p>The two programs are co-hosting the first <a href=\"http:\/\/athletics.bates.edu\/sports\/wbkb\/2016-17\/releases\/20161117kkhmqe\">Graef Memorial Classic<\/a>, a tip-off tourney with games at each college that honors the memory of Marsha Graef, the revered Bates volleyball and women&#8217;s basketball head coach who died in November 2015.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Graef Memorial Classic | Bates College Women&#039;s Basketball\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5qFYnPbVm_w?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<\/div>\n<p>The Bates and Bowdoin head coaches are on the same page when it comes to Graef&#8217;s legacy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Adrienne and I have had a lot of conversations about her love for Bates and what an amazing community it is, and I think Marsha instilled a lot of that,&#8221; says Bates head coach Alison Montgomery, a 2005 Bowdoin graduate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The most important ways that Marsha influenced me had very little to do with X&#8217;s and O&#8217;s and more to do with empowering young women,&#8221; said Bowdoin head coach Adrienne Shibles &#8217;91, a 1,000-point scorer who played for Graef. &#8220;I keep Marsha in my heart as I step on that court each and every day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"js_32\" class=\"_5pbx userContent\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In their first weekend of play, the Bates and Bowdoin women&#8217;s basketball teams will find common ground on their home courts of Alumni Gym and Morrell Gym.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":758,"featured_media":104561,"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":[7,24,130],"tags":[608,10742,11251,10834,9311],"class_list":["post-104558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-athletics","category-collaboration","tag-adrienne-shibles","tag-alison-montgomery","tag-marsha-graef","tag-video","tag-womens-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104558","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=104558"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104570,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104558\/revisions\/104570"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}