{"id":1077,"date":"2010-03-26T08:52:37","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T08:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/2010\/03\/26\/the-sweet-16-and-wabash-%e2%80%93-the-st-marys-connection\/"},"modified":"2010-03-26T08:52:37","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T08:52:37","slug":"the-sweet-16-and-wabash-the-st-marys-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2010\/03\/26\/the-sweet-16-and-wabash-the-st-marys-connection\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sweet 16 and Wabash \u2013 The St. Marys Connection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment-->  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"123\" height=\"176\" align=\"left\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/www2images\/bennett.jpg\" \/>There are a number of connections between Wabash College and St. Marys.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Our president, Pat White, was at St. Marys (IN) before he and Chris came to Wabash.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Over the years, there have been young ladies from two different Indiana St. Marys who have found their way to Wabash College.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Yet another Wabash connection is the one to the St. Marys (CA) Gaels &ndash; in the Sweet 16 (information from my good friend Jim Amidon!)<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The St. Marys coach, <strong>Randy Bennett <\/strong>(photo), is the son of <strong>Tom Bennett &rsquo;60<\/strong>, who played on some great Little Giant teams in the late 1950s and is a member of the Wabash Athletics Hall of Fame.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Tom coached Randy, during Randy&rsquo;s collegiate playing days, at Mesa Community College in Mesa, AZ ,where Tom was the head basketball coach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Tom&rsquo;s 50<sup>th<\/sup> reunion is coming up in June &ndash; there should be some great basketball stories told at the Scarlet Yarns and Scarlet Nickle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">As you watch the Gaels try to make even more basketball history this weekend, your cheering for a Little Giant family!<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are a number of connections between Wabash College and St. Marys.&nbsp; Our president, Pat White, was at St. Marys (IN) before he and Chris came to Wabash.&nbsp; Over the years, there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"w_featured_image_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}