{"id":1579,"date":"2008-11-10T12:00:30","date_gmt":"2008-11-10T16:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/batesthisweek.wordpress.com\/?p=1579"},"modified":"2016-01-14T13:40:50","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T18:40:50","slug":"dokus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2008\/11\/10\/dokus\/","title":{"rendered":"Tess Dokus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 190px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/images\/Sports_Information\/vb\/08\/Heads\/72Dokus_4374.jpg\" alt=\"Tess Dokus 10\" width=\"180\" height=\"270\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tess Dokus &#039;10<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Tess Dokus<\/strong> (Salem, Conn.) was a big reason for the Bates volleyball team&#8217;s improved fortunes in the 2008 season. The junior outside hitter jumped from an average of 1.90 kills per set with a .119 hitting percentage in 2007 to a team-best 2.25 kills and a .236 percentage in 2008.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Bobcats&#8217;, and Dokus&#8217;s, improvement this year was underscored as the team qualified for the NESCAC Championship for the first time since 2004 this year. Bates traveled to top-seeded Tufts for the conference quarterfinals on Friday evening, and Dokus again impressed, notching a match-high 12 kills against just one attack error for a sparkling .550 hitting percentage. She also came up with three blocks as the Bobcats gave the Jumbos (who raised their record to 28-2 with their win) a competitive match, losing in four sets by scores of 25-12, 12-25, 25-16, 25-22. Bates finished the year with a 15-18 record, their best mark since 2004.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/x187084.xml\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tess Dokus (Salem, Conn.) was a big reason for the Bates volleyball team&#8217;s improved fortunes in the 2008 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[1758,11035,9103],"class_list":["post-1579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-athletics","category-student-life","tag-bobcat-of-the-week","tag-profiles","tag-volleyball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579","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\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62521,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579\/revisions\/62521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}