{"id":4168,"date":"2011-02-11T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T15:21:57","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T06:00:00","slug":"hu-track-season-starts-off-with-a-bang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/2011\/02\/11\/hu-track-season-starts-off-with-a-bang\/","title":{"rendered":"HU track season starts off with a bang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Ryan Orr<\/p>\n<p>With such a great showing in last week&#8217;s indoor meet, Harding&#8217;s track team looks to keep up the good work. The Bisons had four men turn in personal-best indoor marks, and junior E. Cathy Ebenja broke her own Harding record in the 60-meter dash with a time of 7.90.Junior Milton Stewart turned in two personal bests in the 60-meter and the 40-meter dash.&#8221;We expect to be in nationals this year,&#8221; Milton said.&#8221;With the new freshmen this year I think we will do really great, too.&#8221;Milton said his goal has always been to win the South Regional Conference Championship and make it to nationals.&#8221;Sticking to a good workout plan and working on my new block technique has helped me to improve this year and helped me in the 40- and 60-dashes last week,&#8221; Milton said.Sophomore Victor Moya said he expects the Bisons to make it to nationals as well.&#8221;I think if we keep the training up we will make it to nationals,&#8221; Moya said.Moya also said he plays for the Bison soccer team and loves the adrenaline and the individual competition in track that he thinks no other sport can offer.&#8221;Always competing against others and mostly against yourself is my favorite thing about track,&#8221; Moya said.&#8221;I think our goal is regionals and then nationals,&#8221; Ebenja said.Ebenja said their biggest motivation is the expectations of their coach, teammates and family. Ebenja said she was glad to break her record. &#8220;It feels like a dream, I&#8217;m honored and very happy, but still a dream,&#8221; Ebenja said.She credits her new mindset and giving it her all in training for the new record.&#8221;I feel like I have matured a lot over the last year or so and know when to take it serious and to always give it my all,&#8221; Ebenja said.<\/p>\n<div align=\"left\" class=\"ddrfssbm\"><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Ryan Orr With such a great showing in last week&#8217;s indoor meet, Harding&#8217;s track team looks to keep up the good work. The Bisons had four men turn&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":376,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[268],"class_list":["post-4168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-hurricane-florence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/376"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}