{"id":106497,"date":"2017-03-17T13:38:07","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T17:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=106497"},"modified":"2017-03-17T13:50:59","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T17:50:59","slug":"video-sara-daher-17-has-earned-17-all-america-awards-all-with-a-smile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2017\/03\/17\/video-sara-daher-17-has-earned-17-all-america-awards-all-with-a-smile\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Sara Daher &#8217;17 has earned 17 All-America awards, all with a smile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An economics major and math minor from Marblehead, Mass., senior swimmer Sarah Daher is a numbers person. Here&#8217;s a number she never anticipated: 17.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s 17 All-America awards over three years, the most any Bates athlete has ever achieved in any sport. And she&#8217;s done it all with a smile.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the things I\u2019ve learned since freshman year is, you swim your best when you\u2019re having fun,&#8221; said Daher a few days before the team headed to <span class=\"st\">Shenandoah, Texa<\/span>s, for the NCAA Division III Swimming and Diving Championships, which are now underway.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I try to create a very light and fun environment for the people around me and just have them enjoy the atmosphere and the moment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bates College&#039;s Sara Daher swims fast one more time\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aOIgVkQVVfM?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>That spirit has elevated the entire team, says head coach Peter Casares.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe biggest impact she\u2019s made is her effect with all of her teammates. She is fantastic at leading lanes, at doing things right, at inspiring others, and supporting and encouraging others. There\u2019s not a meet that goes by where I don\u2019t just sit there and go, &#8216;Wow, are we lucky.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An economics major and math minor from Marblehead, Mass., swimmer Sarah Daher &#8217;17 is a numbers person. But here&#8217;s a number she never anticipated: 17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":758,"featured_media":106500,"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":[11314,8348],"class_list":["post-106497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","category-collaboration","category-student-life","tag-peter-casares","tag-swimming-and-diving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106497","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=106497"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106504,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106497\/revisions\/106504"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}