{"id":104948,"date":"2016-12-16T10:57:46","date_gmt":"2016-12-16T15:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=104948"},"modified":"2017-02-23T13:18:35","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T18:18:35","slug":"squash-teammates-winners-after-hard-rookie-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2016\/12\/16\/squash-teammates-winners-after-hard-rookie-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Two squash teammates become winners after hard rookie season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Roommates and best friends, squash players Katie Bull &#8217;19 of Sudbury, Mass., and Molly Brooks &#8217;19 of Charlottesville, Va., shared some growing pains last year.<\/p>\n<p>Playing high up the ladder, Bull posted a record of 3-16. Brooks went 6-12.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Bull says, &#8220;I learned a lot.&#8221; Facing top-of-the-ladder players last year &#8220;raised my game,&#8221; she says. Now, &#8220;I just feel really confident going out there&#8230;.I&#8217;m ready to go out there and win.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And she has won, and so has Brooks. Heading into winter break, Bull is 6-1 and Brooks 7-0, a big reason that 16th-ranked Bates has a 6-1 record, the program&#8217;s best start since 2012.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Dynamic Duo | Bates College Women&#039;s Squash\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tqvmOOc1vBE?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>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katie Bull &#8217;19 and Molly Brooks &#8217;19 are best friends. And their success on the squash court is about sticking together and never giving up. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":758,"featured_media":104951,"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":[24,130,11012],"tags":[3694,6365,11115],"class_list":["post-104948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","category-collaboration","category-student-life","tag-friends-of-bates-athletics","tag-nescac","tag-pat-cosquer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104948","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=104948"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105067,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104948\/revisions\/105067"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}