{"id":28896,"date":"2014-03-21T10:39:23","date_gmt":"2014-03-21T14:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=28896"},"modified":"2014-03-21T10:39:53","modified_gmt":"2014-03-21T14:39:53","slug":"wright-states-elkins-smiles-through-the-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2014\/03\/21\/wright-states-elkins-smiles-through-the-pain\/","title":{"rendered":"Wright State\u2019s Elkins smiles through the pain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2011\/12\/22\/wright-state-to-launch-%e2%80%9chealthy-steps%e2%80%9d-program\/wsu-raider-logo\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7574\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7574\" src=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2011\/09\/WSU-Raider-logo-260x204.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"204\" \/><\/a>Excerpt<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The role player will be playing a different role Saturday when the Wright State University women\u2019s basketball team makes its first appearance in the NCAA tournament.<\/p>\n<p>KC Elkins manages a smile. She\u2019ll be there, torn ACL and all, when the Raiders play Kentucky at the Wildcats\u2019 Memorial Coliseum.<\/p>\n<p>Is there a tinge of sadness in the senior guard, WSU\u2019s all-time leader in games played? Absolutely. Bitterness? She\u2019ll pass.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy emotions are with my teammates now,\u201d Elkins said. \u201cThey need my support, so I\u2019m going to be the biggest cheerleader on that bench this weekend.\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 16px\">It\u2019s a little emotional, definitely not how I wanted to end. But I got to play all four years and got to win a championship, and that\u2019s what I really wanted to do.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read the full story from the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daytondailynews.com\/news\/sports\/college-basketball\/wsus-elkins-smiles-through-the-pain\/nfHcy\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dayton Daily News<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt The role player will be playing a different role Saturday when the Wright State University women\u2019s basketball team makes its first appearance in the NCAA tournament. KC Elkins manages a smile. She\u2019ll be there, torn ACL and all, when &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2014\/03\/21\/wright-states-elkins-smiles-through-the-pain\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":7574,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[730],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wright-state-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28896"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28899,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28896\/revisions\/28899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}