{"id":3479,"date":"2025-10-30T18:05:24","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T23:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncdadodgeball.com\/uwp\/?p=3479"},"modified":"2025-11-09T15:05:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T21:05:13","slug":"september-2025-rookie-of-the-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncdadodgeball.com\/uwp\/2025\/10\/30\/september-2025-rookie-of-the-month\/","title":{"rendered":"September 2025 Rookie of the Month"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Rookie 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. September&#8217;s winner is Anna Behnke! She is a currently pursuing a degree in Mechanical Engineering and expects to graduate in 2029. Here are his responses to some brief interview questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Q: How do you feel about winning this award?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A: It feels good to start out my dodgeball career strong, seeing I could have a future on this team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Q: How has this award impacted your interest in Dodgeball?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A: I am more driven to continue learning about the sport and better my skills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Q: What did you think of your first tournament?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A: I think the first tournament went okay, there is a lot to learn and practice. Could have gone worse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Q: What skills do you hope to improve on for future tournaments?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A: I mainly want to work on my throwing accuracy, but continuing working on my blocking, and communication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Q: Where do you see yourself on the team going forward?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A: I hope to be a part of the starting 12 in the future.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>Congrats again to Anna Behnke for winning this award! We can&#8217;t wait to see how much you improve throughout the season!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"799\" height=\"1005\" src=\"https:\/\/ncdadodgeball.com\/uwp\/files\/2025\/10\/AnnaROTM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3490\" style=\"width:617px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ncdadodgeball.com\/uwp\/files\/2025\/10\/AnnaROTM.png 799w, https:\/\/ncdadodgeball.com\/uwp\/files\/2025\/10\/AnnaROTM-239x300.png 239w, https:\/\/ncdadodgeball.com\/uwp\/files\/2025\/10\/AnnaROTM-768x966.png 768w, https:\/\/ncdadodgeball.com\/uwp\/files\/2025\/10\/AnnaROTM-102x128.png 102w, https:\/\/ncdadodgeball.com\/uwp\/files\/2025\/10\/AnnaROTM-25x32.png 25w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rookie 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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ncdadodgeball.com\/uwp\/2025\/10\/30\/september-2025-rookie-of-the-month\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;September 2025 Rookie of the Month&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":82,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[41],"class_list":["post-3479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rotm","tag-rookie-of-the-month"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncdadodgeball.com\/uwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3479","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\/82"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncdadodgeball.com\/uwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3479"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ncdadodgeball.com\/uwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3506,"href":"https:\/\/ncdadodgeball.com\/uwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3479\/revisions\/3506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncdadodgeball.com\/uwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncdadodgeball.com\/uwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncdadodgeball.com\/uwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}