{"id":2020,"date":"2009-01-26T11:15:05","date_gmt":"2009-01-26T15:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/batesviews.net\/?p=2020"},"modified":"2016-01-14T13:40:48","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T18:40:48","slug":"leasure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2009\/01\/26\/leasure\/","title":{"rendered":"Kara Leasure &#039;12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2009\/01\/72leasure-6185.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"180\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2009\/01\/72leasure-6185.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignright\" alt=\"Kara Leasure &#039;12\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bates first-year swimmer <strong>Kara Leasure<\/strong> (Los Alamos, N.M.) notched three personal-best times in three quite different events, and won all three of those events at last Saturday&#8217;s dual meet at Colby.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Leasure swam the 1,000-yard freestyle in 10:50.54, the 100 breaststroke in 1:10.68 and the 500 free in 5:17.61.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All were done with more heart than ever expected,&#8221; said Bates head coach <strong>Peter Casares.<\/strong> &#8220;She not only showed the conference that she is one of the best, but she taught both the coaching staff and team what true determination looks like.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Leasure and the Bobcats host their second home meet of the season this Saturday at 1 p.m., with Wheaton College and NESCAC rival Tufts University visiting Tarbell Pool.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/x197074.xml\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bates first-year swimmer Kara Leasure (Los Alamos, N.M.) notched three personal-best times in three quite different events, and won all three of those events at last Saturday&#8217;s dual meet at Colby.<\/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":[1758,11035,8347],"class_list":["post-2020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-athletics","category-student-life","tag-bobcat-of-the-week","tag-profiles","tag-swimming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020","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=2020"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89068,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020\/revisions\/89068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}