{"id":4583,"date":"2018-12-27T23:10:12","date_gmt":"2018-12-27T23:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/?p=4583"},"modified":"2023-05-24T17:56:14","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T17:56:14","slug":"flipping-expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/2018\/12\/27\/flipping-expectations\/","title":{"rendered":"Flipping Expectations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/12\/tim-herring-2.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-4587\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/12\/tim-herring-2-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"236\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/12\/tim-herring-2-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/12\/tim-herring-2-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/12\/tim-herring-2-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/12\/tim-herring-2-335x503.jpg 335w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/12\/tim-herring-2-1050x1575.jpg 1050w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\" \/><\/a>Skeptics thought the Little Giants soccer team had lost too many seniors from the previous year. They thought this season would be a struggle.<\/p>\n<p>But freshman Timothy Herring\u2019s front flip after scoring the team\u2019s second goal in a 2-0 win in the first game set the tone for the entire season\u2013it was going to be energized and exciting.<\/p>\n<p>The Little Giants earned a berth in the NCAC tournament for the third consecutive season and finished with a 12-4-3 record, tying a school record for the most wins in a season and most single-season shutouts.<\/p>\n<p>Defender Michael Tanchevski \u201920 and goalkeeper Chad Wunderlich \u201921 earned First Team All-Great Lakes Region honors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skeptics thought the Little Giants soccer team had lost too many seniors from the previous year. They thought this season would be a struggle. But freshman Timothy Herring\u2019s front flip after scoring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":4585,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-speaking-of-sports"],"w_featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/12\/tim-herring-1-683x1024.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4583"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4588,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4583\/revisions\/4588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}