{"id":668,"date":"2015-04-01T18:22:28","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T18:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/visions\/?p=668"},"modified":"2018-02-08T13:35:22","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T13:35:22","slug":"garner-saves-the-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/visions\/garner-saves-the-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Garner saves the team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/visions\/files\/2015\/04\/Visions-website-Athletics.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-729\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/visions\/files\/2015\/04\/Visions-website-Athletics.png\" alt=\"Visions-website-Athletics\" width=\"510\" height=\"355\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Though she grew up watching and playing basketball, Pickett County High School\u2019s Spanish teacher and softball coach, <strong>Brittney Garner<\/strong>, \u201912 interdisciplinary studies, recently saved the school\u2019s football team and became Tennessee\u2019s first female head football coach.<\/p>\n<p>The team was without a coach when Brittney volunteered to take over so the county\u2019s boys could continue to play. Previously, her only experience with football was through video games. The team\u2019s retired coach came back to call the plays and run the practices while Brittney handles the administrative duties and motivates the Bobcats.<\/p>\n<p>It seems to be working. Last season, for the first time since 2008, the team won more than one game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though she grew up watching and playing basketball, Pickett County High School\u2019s Spanish teacher and softball coach, Brittney Garner, \u201912 interdisciplinary studies, recently saved the school\u2019s football team and became Tennessee\u2019s first female head football coach. The team was without a coach when Brittney volunteered to take over so the county\u2019s boys could continue to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-668","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-spring15"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/visions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/visions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/visions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/visions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/visions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/visions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1179,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/visions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions\/1179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/visions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/visions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/visions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}