{"id":212308,"date":"2025-12-31T00:55:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T00:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/212308\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T00:55:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T00:55:08","slug":"toledo-adding-zane-aiken-to-program-in-2026-27-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/212308\/","title":{"rendered":"Toledo Adding Zane Aiken to Program in 2026-27 Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TOLEDO, Ohio &#8211; University of Toledo Head Men&#8217;s Golf Coach\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/utrockets.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/coaches\/jeff-roope\/1476\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"1476\" target=\"_blank\">Jeff Roope<\/a> announced the addition of\u00a0Zane Aiken (Parker, Colo.)\u00a0to the Rockets&#8217; program on Tuesday. Aiken will begin attending the University of Toledo in the 2026-27 academic year after completing his current season at Central Alabama CC. He will have two years of eligibility remaining.<\/p>\n<p>Aiken posted four Top 10 finishes and posted a 70.3 stroke average for the Trojans this fall. He captured the Bryan College Fall Invitational with a five-under par 208 (70-69-69) in October and the Dan York Memorial Invite with a one-over par 217 (75-68-74) in November. Aiken also registered seven rounds of even-par or lower this fall.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Zane is an extremely competitive well-rounded player and will make a wonderful addition to the recruiting class we have joining our program next fall,&#8221; Roope said. &#8220;He is focused, driven and has worked diligently over the last three years to get where he&#8217;s at today. Zane has competed in some of the bigger amateur tournaments and he has his sights set really high for where he wants to take his game.<\/p>\n<p>Aiken\u00a0earned first-team all-state honors twice and second-team all-state accolades once in his prep career at Ponderosa High School.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TOLEDO, Ohio &#8211; University of Toledo Head Men&#8217;s Golf Coach\u00a0Jeff Roope announced the addition of\u00a0Zane Aiken (Parker, Colo.)\u00a0to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-212308","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}