{"id":1262,"date":"2015-03-02T09:10:07","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T17:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pre-production.taftcollege.edu\/tcwp\/cougaronline\/?p=1262"},"modified":"2015-03-02T09:10:07","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T17:10:07","slug":"cougar-pride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/blog\/2015\/03\/02\/cougar-pride\/","title":{"rendered":"Cougar Pride"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1263\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/oldweb.taftcollege.edu\/tcwp\/cougaronline\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/soccer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1263\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1263\" src=\"http:\/\/oldweb.taftcollege.edu\/tcwp\/cougaronline\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/soccer-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"photo of trophy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1263\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2014 Trophies<\/p><\/div>\n<p>By Josiah Birkbeck<br \/>\nTaft College Men\u2019s Soccer has had another amazing season, finishing first in state with the most power points out of seventy-two junior colleges. Taft went on to achieve third place statewide after losing a fairly balanced game to Cerritos. \u201cAt the end of the day soccer is one of those sports where you can dominate and still lose,\u201d said head coach Angelo Cutrona. Cutrona went on to describe how the game played out, \u201cThe two teams seemed to cancel each other out, the difference was one incredible shot on their part.\u201d<br \/>\nThe Cougars have placed in the final four statewide, five out of the last nine years, which is impressive for a little town like Taft. Cutrona is proud to be a part of the tradition that has been created at Taft College. Players have gone on to play at higher levels, both division 1 and 2, and professionally. Cutrona mentioned some of those players, \u201cMost recently we\u2019ve had former Taft College players make impacts at higher levels such as Edgar Contreras playing in the final four NCAA Division 1 for UCLA and Miguel Ebarra is a regular on the U.S.A. men\u2019s national team.\u201d<br \/>\nWhen asked what the plans are for the future training of the team entailed Cutrona had these words to say, \u201cWe\u2019re always looking for different ways to improve, and the idea is to get better every single day, and we\u2019re always looking to perfect our game.\u201d The coach\u2019s approach seems to be working well because Taft has placed in the top 10 nationally seven years in a row.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 2014 Trophies  By Josiah Birkbeck Taft College Men\u2019s Soccer has had another amazing season, finishing first in state with the most power points out of seventy-two junior colleges. Taft went on to achieve third place statewide after losing a fairly balanced game to Cerritos. \u201cAt the end of the day<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}