{"id":20775,"date":"2024-03-12T17:09:26","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T01:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/?p=20775"},"modified":"2024-03-12T17:10:14","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T01:10:14","slug":"giving-the-play-by-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/giving-the-play-by-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Giving the play-by-play"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Written by: <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hannah Field | News Editor<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Gate River Run, the US National 15k championship, is scheduled for Saturday, March 2, in Jacksonville, Florida with at least one Western student in attendance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wyatt Smith will graduate from Western at the end of the Spring term of 2024 as a Political Science major. Commentating for the upcoming event is another huge step in Smith\u2019s future.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cCommentating is what I\u2019ve always wanted to do,\u201d said Smith. \u201cI\u2019ll be in the back filming the race, and then every mile we\u2019ll be checking in. I\u2019ll be discussing main storylines of the race, the prize money, the USATF pool, who\u2019s in the lead, who\u2019s falling off, expected winners \u2014 that sort of thing.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Listed on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/gateriverrun15k.com\/15k\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">gateriverrun.com<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, the website boasting the event alongside Smith\u2019s employer Runnerspace, is a prize fund of $58,000. 2024 will be the 30th year of Gate River Run hosting the event \u2014 which Smith will be in attendance for thanks to Runnerspace.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Smith, with a history of directing race events, will still be jumping headfirst into new territory with his first commentary ever on the world-class event.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI\u2019m pretty invested in the sport,\u201d said Smith. Smith himself is a track athlete \u2014 running the 15 and 8.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The first pro athlete to win first place in either the women\u2019s race or the men\u2019s race will win a grand prize of\u00a0 $12,000, decreasing in funds until tenth place at a prize of $500. All finishers in the 15k will receive a medal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The event will not be hosted live, but snippets will be uploaded afterward to www.usatf.tv.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Contact the author at howlnews@mail.wou.edu<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1094,"featured_media":20776,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[2218,2222,2219,2226,65,2220,2221,917,2225,2227,2223,2224,2217],"class_list":["post-20775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-15k","tag-athlete","tag-champion","tag-championship","tag-florida","tag-gate-river-run","tag-jacksonville","tag-money","tag-prize","tag-race","tag-runnerspace","tag-usatfk","tag-wyatt-smith"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1094"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}