{"id":44874,"date":"2014-11-13T08:18:32","date_gmt":"2014-11-13T14:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.olemiss.edu\/?p=44874"},"modified":"2014-11-18T10:18:51","modified_gmt":"2014-11-18T16:18:51","slug":"29-days-of-thanks-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/29-days-of-thanks-13\/","title":{"rendered":"29 Days of Thanks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/unnamed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-44573 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/unnamed-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"unnamed\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/unnamed-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/unnamed-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/unnamed-120x120.jpg 120w, https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/unnamed-80x80.jpg 80w, https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/unnamed.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Ole Miss athletics have really excelled over the last few years.<\/p>\n<p>Athletics Director Ross Bjork arrived on campus\u00a0in 2012, and most of our sports have enjoyed\u00a0stellar\u00a0accomplishments since. The Ole Miss basketball team won the SEC Tournament title in 2013, giving them a bid into the NCAA Tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The Ole Miss baseball team made its first appearance at the College World Series in Omaha since 1972.<\/p>\n<p>And Rebel football has given us the season of a lifetime this year. (Don\u2019t worry, I\u2019ll dedicate another post just to football later this month.)<\/p>\n<p>But we aren\u2019t just excelling in those sports. Ole Miss is good at nearly everything now. Track and field star Sam Kendricks captured the pole vault title in 2013 and 2014 at the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships and the men\u2019s track team finished eighth in 2013, a program record.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_44884\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/SKB_2137-AG.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-44884\" class=\"wp-image-44884 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/SKB_2137-AG-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"SKB_2137-AG\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/SKB_2137-AG-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/SKB_2137-AG-2048x1363.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-44884\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kendricks<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Nik Scholtz and Jonas Lutjen advanced to the Final Four in men\u2019s tennis doubles in 2013, and our soccer team won a record 16 games in 2013 and hosted an NCAA Tournament game.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_44886\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/SKB_1951-AG.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-44886\" class=\"wp-image-44886 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/SKB_1951-AG-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"SKB_1951-AG\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/SKB_1951-AG-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/SKB_1951-AG-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-44886\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scholtz<\/p><\/div>\n<p>There are some great things going on with Ole Miss athletics, including a new basketball arena and soon-to-be expansion of Vaught-Hemingway Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the sports themselves, we are also fortunate to have such a great production team within athletics that provides us with chilling team <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/108580977\">motivational videos<\/a>, game <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/108505852\">highlights<\/a> and weekly episodes of <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/111042652\">\u201cThe Season\u201d<\/a> across multiple sports, which lets us\u00a0get to know our student-athletes and the ins and outs of our programs.<\/p>\n<p>We are thankful for AD Ross Bjork, our athletics staff and our student-athletes who\u00a0never fail in giving Ole Miss fans something to believe in and support.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Ole Miss men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s basketball tips off in\u00a0Tad Smith Coliseum. The women take on Grambling State at 11 a.m., and the men face Charleston Southern at 6 p.m. Tickets are available <a href=\"http:\/\/ev8.evenue.net\/cgi-bin\/ncommerce3\/SEGetEventList?groupCode=MBH&amp;linkID=olemiss&amp;shopperContext=&amp;caller=&amp;appCode\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Keep up with all Rebel sports at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.olemisssports.com\/\">OleMissSports.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ole Miss athletics have really excelled over the last few years. Athletics Director Ross Bjork arrived on campus\u00a0in 2012, and most of our sports have enjoyed\u00a0stellar\u00a0accomplishments since. The Ole Miss basketball team won the SEC Tournament title in 2013, giving them a bid into the NCAA Tournament. 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