{"id":7009,"date":"2009-05-25T14:19:31","date_gmt":"2009-05-25T18:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/batesviews.net\/?p=5905"},"modified":"2016-01-14T13:40:44","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T18:40:44","slug":"bobcat-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2009\/05\/25\/bobcat-of-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Bobcat of the week: Vantiel Elizabeth Duncan &#039;10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2009\/05\/72duncan-6238.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"180\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2009\/05\/72duncan-6238.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignright\" alt=\"72duncan-6238\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bates junior <strong>Vantiel Elizabeth Duncan<\/strong> (Topsham, Maine) became a three-time All-American by finishing fifth in the women&#8217;s hammer throw at the NCAA Division III Outdoor Track and Field Championships last week at Marietta College.<\/p>\n<p>Duncan also came up just short of claiming a second All-America award in these championships on Saturday in the shot put, making the finals but finishing in ninth place with a top heave of 13.10 meters (42-11.75). Duncan was seeded 15th in the event going in.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Duncan&#8217;s top hammer throw of 52.29 meters (171-6), qualified her for the nine-athlete final. It is her first outdoor All-America award, after twice achieving the feat at the NCAA Indoor Championships in the weight throw.<\/p>\n<p>Duncan and senior teammate <strong>Izzy Alexander<\/strong> (Harvard, Mass.) represented the Bates women&#8217;s team at the meet. Alexander placed sixth in the 400-meter hurdles to finish her career with five All-America honors, the second highest total in team history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bates junior Vantiel Elizabeth Duncan (Topsham, Maine) became a three-time All-American by finishing fifth in the women&#8217;s hammer throw at the NCAA Division III Outdoor Track and Field Championships last week at Marietta College.<\/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":[1758,6335,11035,8783],"class_list":["post-7009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-athletics","category-student-life","tag-bobcat-of-the-week","tag-ncaa-division-iii-outdoor-track-and-field-championships","tag-profiles","tag-track-and-field"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7009","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=7009"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88616,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7009\/revisions\/88616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}