{"id":1948,"date":"2011-02-17T08:12:45","date_gmt":"2011-02-17T13:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/?p=1948"},"modified":"2011-02-17T08:12:45","modified_gmt":"2011-02-17T13:12:45","slug":"wabashs-first-lady-of-basketball-gloria-petty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2011\/02\/17\/wabashs-first-lady-of-basketball-gloria-petty\/","title":{"rendered":"Wabash&#039;s First Lady of Basketball &#8211; Gloria Petty"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1949\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1949\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2011\/02\/gloria-7745.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1949\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2011\/02\/gloria-7745.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2011\/02\/gloria-7745.jpg 540w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2011\/02\/gloria-7745-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1949\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gloria Petty<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>If my math is right, Mac Petty has been a head coach for 959 games of college basketball.<\/p>\n<p>959 games.<\/p>\n<p>For probably 950 plus, Gloria Petty has been right there &#8211; cheering on Mac&#8217;s teams.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s tough to be the coach &#8211; getting the team prepared and making in-game adjustments is about all you can do. \u00a0After that, it&#8217;s up to the team to win&#8230;or not.<\/p>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s even tougher to be in Gloria&#8217;s shoes. \u00a0You can&#8217;t control what happens on the court no matter how much you&#8217;d like.<\/p>\n<p>But Gloria Petty has a great impact on everything revolving around the game. \u00a0You see, Gloria is the model fan. \u00a0She cheers for her team &#8211; not against any other &#8211; and she excites the people around her as well. \u00a0She&#8217;s positive in every respect.<\/p>\n<p>In another sense, while Mac is coaching the team, Gloria is mentoring the crowd.<\/p>\n<p>Mac&#8217;s 42 size sneakers will be tough to fill &#8211; so will Gloria&#8217;s seat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If my math is right, Mac Petty has been a head coach for 959 games of college basketball. 959 games. For probably 950 plus, Gloria Petty has been right there &#8211; cheering [&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-1948","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\/1948","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=1948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}