{"id":4019,"date":"2009-05-02T06:09:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-02T06:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/sports\/poly-s-nailah-waterfield-will-play-at-duke\/"},"modified":"2009-05-02T06:09:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-02T06:09:00","slug":"poly-s-nailah-waterfield-will-play-at-duke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/poly-s-nailah-waterfield-will-play-at-duke","title":{"rendered":"Poly\u2019s Nailah Waterfield Will Play At Duke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style='float:left;padding-right:10px;padding-bottom:5px;'><img src='images\/archive\/sports\/photo6895147.jpg' align='left' \/><\/div>\n<p>       <!--StartFragment-->           <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Got some exciting news yesterday that Nailah Waterfield,  libero for the Long Beach Poly girls&rsquo; volleyball team, will be attending and  playing for Duke this Fall.<span style=\"\">&nbsp;  <\/span>Though, like most liberos in the country, she will be a walk-on, Duke&rsquo;s  coach referred to her as a &ldquo;highly recruited walk-on&rdquo;&mdash;she&rsquo;ll have a good chance  of earning one after her freshman season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Our congrats to Waterfield, who told us when we interviewed  her for our feature on her that Duke was her top school choice, both  academically and athletically&mdash;good to see all that hard work pay off!<span style=\"\">&nbsp; <\/span>A congrats to Duke as well, of course.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><img decoding=\"async\" style='clear:left;' align='left' vspace='5' hspace='10'  src=\"http:\/\/i304.photobucket.com\/albums\/nn191\/LBPOSTphotos\/NiatCameron.jpg\"   \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><i>If you know of any local commitments by high school  players, let us know at Mike@LBPostSports.com!<\/i><\/p>\n<p>           <!--EndFragment-->                            <\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\">  body {  \tbackground: #FFF;  }  <\/style>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"> body { \tbackground: #FFF; } <\/style><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Jackrabbit will head east to become a Dukie in the Fall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4019"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=4019"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}