{"id":10904,"date":"2009-07-01T10:15:36","date_gmt":"2009-07-01T15:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=10904"},"modified":"2018-06-04T09:30:10","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T13:30:10","slug":"throwing-a-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2009\/07\/01\/throwing-a-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Throwing a Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2009\/07\/woodhead-throwing-dedication-6024-c.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2009\/07\/woodhead-throwing-dedication-6024-c.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full\" alt=\"Longtime Bates throwing coach Joe Woodhead was honored prior to the annual Maine Men&#039;s Intercollegiate Track and Field Championships Feb. 7, with the naming of the throwing circle inside Merrill to be officially renamed the Joseph Woodhead All-American Throwing Area. Some of his former athletes made inaugural throws inside the area, including  Joe Welch &#039;94, Bill McEvila &#039;99, Lucas Adams &#039;00, Jaime Sawler &#039;02, Scott Cooper &#039;05, Dustin Gauthier &#039;05, Noah Gauthier &#039;08 and Rich McNeil &#039;10, and from the women&#039;s team, Keelin Godsey &#039;06 and Vantiel Elizabeth Duncan &#039;10. \n Story: https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/x197622.xml\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Erika Bristol &#8217;99 hugs her former throwing coach, Joe Woodhead, after she made one of the inaugual weight throws to help [intlink id=&#8221;2147&#8243; type=&#8221;post&#8221;]dedicate of the Joseph Woodhead All-American Throwing Area[\/intlink] in Merrill Gym in February. The event also celebrated renovations to the gym and\u00a0Slovenski Track that included a new Mondo surface for track and tennis plus much-improved lighting. Woodhead has guided Bates throwers to 39 All-America honors and six NCAA championships in a quarter-century.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photograph by Louisa Demmitt &#8217;09<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The dedication of the Woodhead Throwing Area<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":0,"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":[7,24,130,14],"tags":[10856,8099],"class_list":["post-10904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-athletics","category-collaboration","category-faculty-staff","tag-bates-magazine","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10904","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\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88573,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10904\/revisions\/88573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}