{"id":106610,"date":"2016-02-19T17:47:58","date_gmt":"2016-02-20T00:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/strazza-whalen-steps-up\/"},"modified":"2016-02-19T17:47:58","modified_gmt":"2016-02-20T00:47:58","slug":"strazza-whalen-steps-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/strazza-whalen-steps-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Strazza-Whalen steps up"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\"Everett
Everett Strazza-Whalen<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

Mancos senior Everett Strazza-Whalen has dreamed of playing college football since he was in the sixth grade.<\/p>\n

And the three-year captain and two-time all-conference selection will fulfill his goal next year at Fort Lewis College.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m just excited for the opportunity to play college football,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s been a dream and a goal of mine since I started playing football in sixth grade.\u201d<\/p>\n

Strazza-Whalen had interest in Colorado Mesa University and Hastings College, but he settled on Fort Lewis because of the location and his relationship with the coaches.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s close to home and my family, and I have two very little siblings,\u201d he explained. \u201cI really like the coaches and I\u2019ve known a couple of them for a while.<\/p>\n

Strazza-Whalen signed with the Skyhawks as a linebacker, after he helped anchor the Mancos Blue Jays\u2019 defense this year on their way to a 6-4 season and a playoff appearance.<\/p>\n

He was third on the team with 68 total tackles, and he also recorded one sack, two tackles-for-loss, two forced fumbles, two fumble recoveries and scored one defensive touchdown.<\/p>\n

While attending Fort Lewis, Strazza-Whalen intends to major in exercise science.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

signs with Fort Lewis College as linebacker<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":106611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5770],"tags":[83],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-106610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-high-school-sports","tag-mancos"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106610","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=106610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106610"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=106610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}