{"id":8847,"date":"2015-08-26T08:45:53","date_gmt":"2015-08-26T12:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/?p=8847"},"modified":"2015-08-26T08:45:53","modified_gmt":"2015-08-26T12:45:53","slug":"lambert-08-named-head-coach-at-manchester-u","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2015\/08\/26\/lambert-08-named-head-coach-at-manchester-u\/","title":{"rendered":"Lambert &#8217;08 named head coach at Manchester U."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/08\/GeoffLambert.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8848\" alt=\"GeoffLambert\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/08\/GeoffLambert.jpg\" width=\"165\" height=\"275\" \/><\/a>Geoff Lambert &#8217;08<\/strong> is about to begin his first Cross Country season as head coach of the Manchester University (Indiana) men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s cross country programs.\u00a0 He joined the Spartans in April 2015.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Geoff is a 2008 graduate of Wabash College, where he obtained a degree in history with minors in education and psychology. As a Little Giant, Lambert was a four-year letter winner in both cross country and track and field. He was a 13-time North Coast Athletic Conference champion and established three NCAC records in his career. He was a six-time NCAA National Championships qualifier and earned All-American honors twice, highlighted by a runner-up finish in the indoor 800 meter run in 2007. He was named Wabash College&#8217;s Athlete of the Year in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>A native of Chesterton, Indiana, Lambert also works with the distance runners with track and field and assists with the school&#8217;s Student-Athlete Advisory Committee.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations and Good Luck, Geoff!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo and bio courtesy of<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Manchester University.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geoff Lambert &#8217;08 is about to begin his first Cross Country season as head coach of the Manchester University (Indiana) men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s cross country programs.\u00a0 He joined the Spartans in April [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"w_featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/08\/GeoffLambert.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8847","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\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8847"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8852,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8847\/revisions\/8852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}