{"id":1493,"date":"2014-02-28T11:24:49","date_gmt":"2014-02-28T16:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/hcasc\/?p=1493"},"modified":"2023-01-31T22:43:42","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T03:43:42","slug":"umes-team-advances-to-honda-campus-all-star-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/hcasc\/umes-team-advances-to-honda-campus-all-star-nationals\/","title":{"rendered":"UMES team advances to Honda Campus All-Star nationals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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UMES\u2019 Honda Campus All-Star Challenge team members, from left, are: Evan Bryant, Mariah Dennis, Jonathan Wheeler, Jonathan Weary. (Photo courtesy of Honda)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

A quartet of UMES undergraduates placed third this past weekend in a qualifying tournament for the 2014 Honda Campus All-Star Challenge, a performance that earned them an invitation to compete in the national tournament this spring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

UMES Honda All-Star team 2014A team anchored by sophomore Mariah Dennis, who competed a year ago, senior Jonathon Weary, junior Evan Bryant, and sophomore Jonathan Wheeler, all first-time competitors, heads to Los Angeles in April to represent the university in the 25th annual event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe team competed against some great teams in round-robin play,\u201d Coach James White said, including \u201cperennial powers like Howard University (a former national champion) and the 2013 champions, Morgan State University.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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UMES\u2019 Honda Campus All-Star Challenge team members, from left, are:  Jonathan Wheeler, Evan Bryant, Mariah Dennis, and Jonathan Weary. (Photo courtesy of Honda)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The Honda Campus All-Star Challenge is a game of quick recall exclusively for students of America\u2019s Historically Black Colleges and Universities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Along with the third-place trophy, the UMES contingent received the Team Sportsmanship Award at the Feb. 15 competition hosted by Morgan State in Baltimore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe team played with \u2018Hawk Pride\u2019 and represented UMES well,\u201d White said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Anthony Jenkins, vice president for student affairs and enrollment management, and President Juliette B. Bell, both sent words of encouragement that White said inspired the team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is wonderful news,\u201d Dr. Bell said when told Monday of the tourney results. \u201cGood luck in your preparations to bring home the prize!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

White said he already had a practice schedule drawn up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Forty-eight teams advance to the National Championship. Over $300,000 is at stake this year, with the champion HBCU earning a $50,000 grant. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 48\u2010team field will be announced Feb. 20 during a live webcast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More than $7 million in grants have been awarded by Honda to participating HBCUs, and nearly 100,000 students in 22 states have participated since the competition began a quarter century ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A quartet of UMES undergraduates placed third this past weekend in a qualifying tournament for the 2014 Honda Campus All-Star Challenge, a performance that earned them an invitation to compete in the national tournament this spring. UMES Honda All-Star team 2014A team anchored by sophomore Mariah Dennis, who competed a year ago, senior Jonathon Weary,…Read more UMES team advances to Honda Campus All-Star nationals<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1559,"featured_media":1490,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-1493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/hcasc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/hcasc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/hcasc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/hcasc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1559"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/hcasc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/hcasc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/hcasc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/hcasc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/hcasc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/hcasc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1493"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/hcasc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=1493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}