{"id":97653,"date":"2025-12-22T21:55:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T21:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/97653\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T21:55:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T21:55:27","slug":"weslaco-state-champion-madelynn-cantu-signs-with-texas-am-corpus-christi-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/97653\/","title":{"rendered":"Weslaco state champion Madelynn Cantu signs with Texas A&M-Corpus Christi"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Weslaco<\/p>\n

Weslaco’s State champion Madelynn Cantu is taking her talents to the next level signing to play division one softball at Texas A&M Corpus Christi.<\/p>\n

Cantu has been one of the Rio Grande valley’s top pitchers since her freshman season earning district flex player of the year honors. She followed that with a district defensive player of the year award, All valley softball player of the year and helped lead Weslaco to a state title.<\/p>\n

Her junior year she added more hardware winning district MVP and earning a spot on the TGCA class 6A all-state team.<\/p>\n

“It feels really good because I worked really hard for this and to finally have this moment it’s amazing. I chose the islanders because first of all it’s close to home and second of all they have very good education and a lot of schools didn’t have what I wanted to do and they did.” Said Madelynn Cantu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Weslaco’s State champion Madelynn Cantu is taking her talents to the next level signing to play division one…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":{"0":"post-97653","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-corpus-christi","8":"tag-corpus-christi","9":"tag-corpus-christi-headlines","10":"tag-corpus-christi-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}