{"id":25087,"date":"2011-10-06T20:57:38","date_gmt":"2011-10-07T00:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/?p=25087"},"modified":"2011-10-06T20:57:38","modified_gmt":"2011-10-07T00:57:38","slug":"wrestling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wrestling\/","title":{"rendered":"Massa set to wrestle at U of M"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/11oct\/wrestlingth.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"image\" class=\"aligncenter size-full\" \/>St. Johns High School senior Taylor Massa<!--more--> made it official this week \u2013 he\u2019s joining the University of Michigan wrestling program at the conclusion of his high school career.<br \/>\nThe three-time individual state champion made the announcement this week at an informal press conference.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/11oct\/wrestling2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"image\" class=\"aligncenter size-full\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Taylor Massa<\/em><br \/>\nMassa had been courted by a number of universities, including Michigan State, but ultimately selected the Wolverines in what he called an \u201cextremely hard decision.\u201d He cited a desire to wrestle in the Olympics as a deciding factor in choosing UM.<br \/>\nThe future UM grappler helped the SJHS wrestling squad win back-to-back team state titles in 2009 and 2010. His individual titles came in three weight classes: 145, 152 and 160 pounds. Massa is working toward a fourth individual title this season.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/11oct\/wrestling3.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"image\" class=\"aligncenter size-full\" \/><br \/>\n<em>St. Johns Athletic Director Chris Ervin<\/em><br \/>\nMassa has compiled a 187-0 individual record during three seasons at SJHS, and has won a pair of national titles in freestyle and Greco levels in national competitions.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/11oct\/wrestling1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"image\" class=\"aligncenter size-full\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Taylor Massa with his Coach and his parents Rhonda and Roger Massa <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Johns High School senior Taylor Massa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}