{"id":2494,"date":"2024-02-22T22:21:23","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T04:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncdadodgeball.com\/uwp\/?p=2494"},"modified":"2024-02-22T22:21:25","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T04:21:25","slug":"january-2024-baller-of-the-month-zach-brand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncdadodgeball.com\/uwp\/2024\/02\/22\/january-2024-baller-of-the-month-zach-brand\/","title":{"rendered":"January 2024 Baller of the Month- Zach Brand"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sophomore #72<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"433\" height=\"541\" src=\"https:\/\/ncdadodgeball.com\/uwp\/files\/2024\/02\/image-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2514\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ncdadodgeball.com\/uwp\/files\/2024\/02\/image-1.png 433w, https:\/\/ncdadodgeball.com\/uwp\/files\/2024\/02\/image-1-240x300.png 240w, https:\/\/ncdadodgeball.com\/uwp\/files\/2024\/02\/image-1-310x387.png 310w, https:\/\/ncdadodgeball.com\/uwp\/files\/2024\/02\/image-1-60x75.png 60w, https:\/\/ncdadodgeball.com\/uwp\/files\/2024\/02\/image-1-102x128.png 102w, https:\/\/ncdadodgeball.com\/uwp\/files\/2024\/02\/image-1-26x32.png 26w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 433px) 85vw, 433px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>The Baller of the Month award is an award given monthly to a player voted on by their teammates to recognize all the hard work they have put into the team throughout the month. This month&#8217;s recipient is sophomore Zach Brand. Here&#8217;s what he had to say:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How do you feel getting BOTM?&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I feel like the months of hard work are starting to pay off and I\u2019m grateful that my team is noticing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What are your plans to continue to improve?&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m planning on doing as much as I can outside of practice to continue to improve for myself on top of that I plan to give full support to my teammates as I wouldn\u2019t be where I am without them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How have you felt about the season so far?&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The season isn\u2019t too bad, we had a lot of hiccups this last semester, but we are going to come back stronger this semester.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What are your goals for the remainder of the season?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the remainder of the season, I want to continue working on catching and blocking as those are really important attributes for a good player. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Anything else you\u2019d like to say to the team\/readers?&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the people reading this I\u2019d like to thank you for all the support you\u2019ve given us until now, it doesn\u2019t go unnoticed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Congratulations again to Zach Brand on receiving the Baller of the Month award. We look forward to seeing who&#8217;s next! Go &#8216;Neers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sophomore #72 The Baller of the Month award is an award given monthly to a player voted on by their teammates to recognize all the hard work they have put &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ncdadodgeball.com\/uwp\/2024\/02\/22\/january-2024-baller-of-the-month-zach-brand\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;January 2024 Baller of the Month- Zach Brand&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards","category-baller-of-the-month"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncdadodgeball.com\/uwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncdadodgeball.com\/uwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncdadodgeball.com\/uwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncdadodgeball.com\/uwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncdadodgeball.com\/uwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2494"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ncdadodgeball.com\/uwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2519,"href":"https:\/\/ncdadodgeball.com\/uwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494\/revisions\/2519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncdadodgeball.com\/uwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncdadodgeball.com\/uwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncdadodgeball.com\/uwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}