{"id":195,"date":"2017-11-23T12:30:05","date_gmt":"2017-11-23T12:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue1-2017\/?p=195"},"modified":"2017-11-23T12:35:08","modified_gmt":"2017-11-23T12:35:08","slug":"mma-to-add-swim-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue1-2017\/campus-currents\/mma-to-add-swim-teams\/","title":{"rendered":"MMA to Add Swim Teams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"subCategory\">Athletics<\/span><\/p>\n<h1>MMA to Add Swim Teams<\/h1>\n<p>The addition of an intercollegiate swimming team marks the seventh men\u2019s and sixth women\u2019s NCAA intercollegiate program offered by MMA, which competes in Division III.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is demand among our current and prospective students and our pool is an underutilized asset on our campus,\u201d said Director of Athletics, Steve Peed. \u201cI am incredibly excited for the opportunities we are creating and I look forward to watching our athletes compete.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Mariners will compete in Bok Pool and MMA will seek a limited club competition schedule for the 2017-2018 academic year. The team will make the leap to varsity status for the 2018-2019 academic\u00a0year, allowing adequate time for minor renovations to Bok Pool in order to make it competition-ready.<\/p>\n<p>Peed expects to begin searching for the program\u2019s first head coach early in the spring of 2018.<span class=\"articleEnd\">\u2588<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Athletics<\/p>\n<p>MMA to Add Swim Teams<\/p>\n<p>The addition of an intercollegiate swimming team marks the seventh men\u2019s and sixth women\u2019s NCAA intercollegiate program offered by MMA, which competes in Division III.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is demand among our current and prospective students and our pool is an underutilized asset on our campus,\u201d said Director of Athletics, Steve Peed. \u201cI am incredibly excited for the opportunities we are creating and I look forward to watching our athletes compete.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Mariners will compete in Bok Pool and MMA will seek a limited club competition schedule for the 2017-2018 academic year. The team will make the leap to varsity status for the 2018-2019 academic\u00a0year, allowing adequate time for minor renovations to Bok Pool in order to make it competition-ready.<\/p>\n<p>Peed expects to begin searching for the program\u2019s first head coach early in the spring of 2018.\u2588<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue1-2017\/campus-currents\/mma-to-add-swim-teams\/\">&#8230;Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue1-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue1-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue1-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue1-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue1-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue1-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199,"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue1-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions\/199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue1-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue1-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue1-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue1-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}