{"id":46933,"date":"2025-02-20T12:28:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T17:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/?p=46933"},"modified":"2025-02-18T13:36:00","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T18:36:00","slug":"gracie-shepherd-named-to-fsn-spring-athlete-watchlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/gracie-shepherd-named-to-fsn-spring-athlete-watchlist\/","title":{"rendered":"Gracie Shepherd Named to FSN Spring Athlete Watchlist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"666\" height=\"848\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Gracie-Shepherd.jpg?resize=666%2C848&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-46934\" style=\"width:450px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Gracie-Shepherd.jpg?w=666&amp;ssl=1 666w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Gracie-Shepherd.jpg?resize=560%2C713&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Gracie-Shepherd.jpg?resize=260%2C331&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Gracie-Shepherd.jpg?resize=160%2C204&amp;ssl=1 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 666px) 100vw, 666px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Sophomore Gracie Shepherd&nbsp;was selected onto the FSN Spring Athlete Watchlist for Women&#8217;s Rowers and Coxswains, announced by the For the Stars Network on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shepherd enters her sophomore season after a strong freshman campaign where she was awarded Outstanding Freshman of the Year by the Kansas Women&#8217;s Rowing team. In her first year in the program, Shepherd predominantly raced on the 1 Varsity 8+ and 2 Varsity 8+ boats and was a member of the 1 Varsity 8+ squad that won Big 12 Boat of the Week on May 8, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This past fall, Shepherd helped the Women&#8217;s Club 4+ boat to a victory at the Head of the Charles, the world&#8217;s largest three-day regatta, in a race that featured 50 boats. She was&nbsp;also a part of the Collegiate Varsity 8+ boat that won at the Jayhawk Jamboree.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prior to Kansas, the native of Haviland, Ohio, was a three sport\u00a0athlete at Wayne Trace High School, earning 11 total letters throughout her volleyball, basketball and track and field career.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the Stars Network selected over 170 athletes, including 10 from the Big 12, across 93 Division I teams who are on the rise within their programs. Selection is based on race results, ergometer times, coach recommendations, independent research, the athlete&#8217;s improvement within the team and positive trajectory from the previous season and semester.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shepherd, along with the rest of the Jayhawk rowers, will begin official spring competition on March 28-29 at the Sunshine State Invite in Sarasota, Florida.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sophomore Gracie Shepherd&nbsp;was selected onto the FSN Spring Athlete Watchlist for Women&#8217;s Rowers and Coxswains, announced by the For the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":46934,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,5],"tags":[24820,16431,24822,24821,5916],"class_list":["post-46933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-school","category-sports","tag-fsn-spring-athlete-watchlist","tag-gracie-shepherd","tag-kansas","tag-rowers-and-coxswains","tag-wayne-trace-high-school"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Gracie-Shepherd.jpg?fit=666%2C848&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2YQd9-ccZ","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-26 02:19:15","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46935,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46933\/revisions\/46935"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}