{"id":5176,"date":"2024-05-03T16:53:29","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T16:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theopinator.org\/home\/?p=5176"},"modified":"2024-05-03T16:54:58","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T16:54:58","slug":"lillendahl-and-blades-head-to-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theopinator.org\/home\/2024\/05\/03\/lillendahl-and-blades-head-to-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Lillendahl and Blades Head to Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Michael DeMuro &#8217;27<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In April, Luke Lilledahl &#8217;24 and alumna Kennedy Blades &#8217;22 were accepted to the Olympic Trials for wrestling. This prestigious honor did not go unrecognized by the Sem community. As a current student, Lilledahl\u2019s peers had a send-off at the Sprague alleyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the trial, Lilledahl placed 5th overall. When asked about his experience, Lilledahl said, \u201cIt was really fun [&#8230;] being able to see players I\u2019ve looked up to and how they prepare and wrestle.\u201d When the Olympics return in 4 years, Lilledahl plans on trying again, and then again after that, until he reaches his goal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Blades won first place at 76 kg in the U.S. Olympic Wrestling Trials. At just 20, Kennedy, a second-place finisher when she was 17 at the Olympic Team Trials in 2021, is among the youngest wrestlers on the women&#8217;s or men&#8217;s teams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2024 Summer Olympic Games begin in just over two months, scheduled from July 26 through August 11. #GoBlueKnights<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Michael DeMuro &#8217;27 In April, Luke Lilledahl &#8217;24 and alumna Kennedy Blades &#8217;22 were accepted to the Olympic Trials for wrestling. This prestigious honor did not go unrecognized by <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/theopinator.org\/home\/2024\/05\/03\/lillendahl-and-blades-head-to-olympics\/\">Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":5178,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theopinator.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/437778027_995059495677022_6228451438815547030_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theopinator.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theopinator.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theopinator.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theopinator.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theopinator.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theopinator.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5177,"href":"https:\/\/theopinator.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5176\/revisions\/5177"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theopinator.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theopinator.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theopinator.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theopinator.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}