{"id":427,"date":"2008-04-25T07:57:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-25T13:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homepages.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2008\/04\/25\/former-softball-standouts-health-scare-rallied-baylor-family\/"},"modified":"2008-04-25T07:57:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-25T13:57:00","slug":"former-softball-standouts-health-scare-rallied-baylor-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2008\/04\/former-softball-standouts-health-scare-rallied-baylor-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Former softball standout&#8217;s health scare rallied Baylor family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/vitek-2004.jpg\" alt=\"Cristin Vitek\" align=\"right\" \/>Baylor fans know Cristin Vitek as the softball pitcher who <a href=\"http:\/\/baylorbears.cstv.com\/sports\/w-softbl\/recaps\/052004aaa.html\" target=\"_blank\">struck out an NCAA-record 28 batters<\/a> in a 16-inning 1-0 win during the 2004 NCAA Regional &#8212; the exceptional athlete seen in this picture. But all her athletic achievements meant nothing earlier this year when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.doubleazone.com\/2008\/02\/prayers_richard_nixon_the_othe.html\" target=\"_blank\">she spent three weeks in the hospital<\/a>, her family worried at times if she would even survive.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, she is now on the road to recovery and was healthy enough to throw out the first pitch before Wednesday night&#8217;s softball game. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylor.edu\/lariat\/news.php?action=story&amp;story=50696\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Baylor Lariat<\/em><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wacotrib.com\/sports\/content\/sports\/college\/2008\/04\/24\/04242008wacvitek.html?UrAuth=%60N]NUOaNXUbTTUWUXUaUZTZUUWUUcUZUcUZUcTYWYWZV\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Waco Tribune-Herald<\/em><\/a> each ran nice features on what she&#8217;s been through; the Viteks shared how the Baylor family immediately sprung into action with prayers for Cristin&#8217;s health, plus phone calls, text messages and e-mails of encouragement.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s so great to see the Baylor community banding around a brother or sister in their time of need. And in this case, it&#8217;s great to see Cristin back up and headed towards full health.<\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, Cristin, and sic \u2019em, Baylor family!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baylor fans know Cristin Vitek as the softball pitcher who struck out an NCAA-record 28 batters in a 16-inning 1-0 win during the 2004 NCAA Regional &#8212; the exceptional athlete seen in this picture. But all her athletic achievements meant nothing earlier this year when she spent three weeks in the hospital, her family worried [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-athletics","category-just-for-fun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}