{"id":6047,"date":"2016-03-13T21:36:10","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T03:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wyonation.com\/?p=6047"},"modified":"2016-03-13T21:39:05","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T03:39:05","slug":"jordan-charles-earns-american-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/jordan-charles-earns-american-honors\/","title":{"rendered":"Jordan Charles Earns All-American Honors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6051\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6051\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6051\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/charles.jpg\" alt=\"Cowboy junior Jordan Charles finished 12th in the 60m hurdles at the NCAA indoor championships last week in Birmingham, AL. (Photo via Wyoming Athletics)\" width=\"300\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/charles.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/charles-180x300.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6051\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cowboy junior Jordan Charles finished 12th in the 60m hurdles at the NCAA indoor championships last week in Birmingham, AL. (Photo via Wyoming Athletics)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Cowboy hurdler Jordan Charles did something that no other Cowboy hurdler had done before. He became an NCAA All-American. Charles ran in the 60m hurdles in Birmingham, Alabama last week, the lone Cowboy to compete in the NCAA championships. Charles finished with a 7.85 time which was good enough for 12th place, placing him on the 2nd team All-American team.<\/p>\n<p>Charles, a junior, missed the cut for the finals by eight hundredths of a second. He was the 12th ranked runner going into the event.<\/p>\n<p>Jordan Charles is the 60th Cowboy All-American including the track and field teams, as well as the cross country program. He&#8217;s the first Cowboy to be an indoor All-American since Mason Finley competed in the shot put in 2014. He&#8217;s the first runner to claim All-American status since Mark Korir did it in 2008, competing in the 5000 meter race. Before Jordan Charles the Cowboys never had a male All-American in a indoor or outdoor hurdling event.<\/p>\n<p>Charles is a junior from Aurora, Colorado and is majoring in Journalism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cowboy hurdler Jordan Charles did something that no other Cowboy hurdler had done before. He became an NCAA All-American. Charles ran in the 60m hurdles in Birmingham, Alabama last week, the lone Cowboy to compete in the NCAA championships. Charles finished with a 7.85 time which was good enough for 12th place, placing him on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[864,214,31,865],"class_list":["post-6047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wyoblog","tag-jordan-charles","tag-mountain-west","tag-wyoming-cowboys","tag-wyoming-track"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}