{"id":234399,"date":"2026-03-24T17:37:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T17:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/234399\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T17:37:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T17:37:23","slug":"rice-named-first-hltf-womens-track-athlete-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/234399\/","title":{"rendered":"Rice Named First #HLTF Women&#8217;s Track Athlete of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                &#13;<br \/>\n                    Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                 INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. &#8211; The Horizon League announced their first Outdoor Track and Field Athletes of the Week on Tuesday, naming Oakland&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/goldengrizzlies.com\/sports\/track-and-field\/roster\/abigail-rice\/12584\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12584\" target=\"_blank\">Abigail Rice<\/a> as the First Women&#8217;s Track Athlete of the Week this spring.<\/p>\n<p>The sophomore from Rochester earned her first career outdoor win, outpacing the field in the 800m with a personal best time of 1:57.05 at the Polar Bear Invite at Indiana Wesleyan University.<\/p>\n<p>Rice leads Oakland into another week of competition as the team heads to the NC State Raleigh Relays (3\/26-28) and Cedarville University (3\/28).<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; &#13; INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. &#8211; The Horizon League announced their first Outdoor Track and Field&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234400,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-234399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}