{"id":9322,"date":"2023-11-08T05:54:44","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T10:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=9322"},"modified":"2023-11-08T05:54:47","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T10:54:47","slug":"familiar-face-returns-to-lead-southern-wells-back-to-respectability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/08\/familiar-face-returns-to-lead-southern-wells-back-to-respectability\/","title":{"rendered":"Familiar face returns to lead Southern Wells back to respectability"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Wrestling is hard. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And when you try to lead a team at a school as small as Southern Wells, well, it&#8217;s hard, too. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is a reason that most schools in the IHSAA of Southern Wells&#8217; size don&#8217;t have a wrestling team. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s just not enough boys. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two years ago, the Raiders won just two bouts at the Jay County Sectional. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then, last season, Jacob Duncan returned to his home school and became one of the youngest head coaches in the state of Indiana. He was part of a quartet of wrestlers several years ago who came close to winning a semi-state title for the school. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now settled into his second year, Duncan has the Raiders back in a position to win some dual meets and compete for places in the top half of the ACAC and the Jay County Sectional. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/98.158.76.108\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Coach-Jacob-Duncan.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Coach Jacob Duncan speaks about Southern Wells wrestling and the outlook for this season during Media Day on High School Wrestling Weekly. <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wrestling is hard. And when you try to lead a team at a school as small as Southern<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9325,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[53,26,12],"class_list":["post-9322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-southernwells","tag-sports","tag-wrestling"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/DSC_0426-scaled-e1699440870310.jpg?fit=857%2C1696&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}