{"id":79,"date":"2007-09-21T13:39:44","date_gmt":"2007-09-21T19:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homepages.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2007\/09\/21\/baylors-jones-recognized-by-sports-illustrated\/"},"modified":"2007-09-21T13:39:44","modified_gmt":"2007-09-21T19:39:44","slug":"baylors-jones-recognized-by-sports-illustrated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2007\/09\/baylors-jones-recognized-by-sports-illustrated\/","title":{"rendered":"Baylor&#8217;s Jones recognized by Sports Illustrated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/johnson_si.jpg\" alt=\"johnson_si.jpg\" align=\"right\" width=\"180\" \/>As a kid dreaming of being a famous athlete someday, I wondered what it would be like to have my picture in <em>Sports Illustrated<\/em>. Baylor sophomore <a href=\"http:\/\/baylorbears.cstv.com\/sports\/c-xc\/mtt\/jones_nichole00.html\">Nichole Jones<\/a> is learning what that&#8217;s like after being included in <em>SI<\/em>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/scorecard\/faces\/2007\/09\/24\/\">&#8220;Faces in the Crowd&#8221;<\/a> this week, a top honor for amateur athletes across the country.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/2007\/magazine\/0924\/\">Sept. 24 issue<\/a>, now on newsstands, applauds Jones for winning her first two races this year, leading the Bears to a pair of team victories to open the season. For more on Jones and her success at Baylor, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylormag.com\/dept.php?id=000662\">here&#8217;s an article in <em>Baylor Magazine<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, Nichole!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a kid dreaming of being a famous athlete someday, I wondered what it would be like to have my picture in Sports Illustrated. Baylor sophomore Nichole Jones is learning what that&#8217;s like after being included in SI&#8216;s &#8220;Faces in the Crowd&#8221; this week, a top honor for amateur athletes across the country. The Sept. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-athletics","category-honors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","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=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}