{"id":106281,"date":"2016-03-10T19:07:01","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T02:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/tennis-preview-lady-panthers-begin-season-on-saturday\/"},"modified":"2016-03-10T19:07:01","modified_gmt":"2016-03-11T02:07:01","slug":"tennis-preview-lady-panthers-begin-season-on-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/tennis-preview-lady-panthers-begin-season-on-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis preview: Lady Panthers begin season on Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image naviga-align-left alignleft\" data-naviga-align=\"left\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=2f3e5bde-b803-421c-ba41-cc6bc6ace72e&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=2f3e5bde-b803-421c-ba41-cc6bc6ace72e&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=800 800w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=2f3e5bde-b803-421c-ba41-cc6bc6ace72e&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=2f3e5bde-b803-421c-ba41-cc6bc6ace72e&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1800 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 2000px\" width=\"1964\" height=\"2000\" alt=\"Raquel Lucero returns the ball during the Montezuma-Cortez High School tennis practice.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Raquel Lucero returns the ball during the Montezuma-Cortez High School tennis practice.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Sam Green\/The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Taking the lead for the Lady Panthers this year is first-year head coach Catherine Anliker.<\/p>\n<p>Anliker has experience as a tennis instructor, but this will be the first time she has coached a team. She said that her goals for the season are to grow into her role as head coach and to help her players develop.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGrowth determines success,\u201d Anliker said. \u201cSo whatever their level is, (I want them) to continue to grow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Lady Panthers return most of their team from last season, including last year\u2019s top three singles players: Raquel Lucero, Skye Cole and Laurel Chappell.<\/p>\n<p>Also returning are seniors Kristin Pierce, Ashley Moore and Jennifer Sturman, juniors Angel Veach and Andria Battle and sophomores Alyssa Utley and Courtney Kocourek.<\/p>\n<p>Newcomers Aubrie Rice, Ronee Dennison and Megan Harmon will also compete for playing time.<\/p>\n<p>With 13 players out for the team, the Lady Panthers held challenges this week to determine lineup spots before their first match on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>They will begin play Saturday at 11 a.m. at Parque de Vida.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lucero returns the ball during the Montezuma-Cortez High School tennis practice.Sam Green\/The Journal Taking the lead for the Lady Panthers this year is first-year head coach Catherine Anliker. Anliker has experience as a tennis instructor, but this will be the first time she has coached a team. She said that her goals for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":106282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5770],"tags":[21],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-106281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-high-school-sports","tag-cortez"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106281"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=106281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}