{"id":21753,"date":"2012-01-15T14:35:54","date_gmt":"2012-01-15T21:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=21753"},"modified":"2017-06-10T10:19:58","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T17:19:58","slug":"diamond-ranchs-ardron-verbals-to-columbia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=21753","title":{"rendered":"Diamond Ranch&#8217;s Ardron Verbals to Columbia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_21757\" style=\"width: 469px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21757\" class=\"size-large wp-image-21757   \" title=\"Jacob Ardron 001\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Jacob-Ardron-0011-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"459\" height=\"344\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-21757\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jacob Ardron Heading to Columbia<\/p><\/div>\n<p>(Pomona) \u2013 Diamond Ranch linebacker Jacob Ardon verbally committed to Columbia Sunday morning said\u00a0Coach Roddy Layton.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Ardron who had previously visited Penn before taking a trip to Columbia was all CIF at backer and was a key player for the Panther defense last year. He was also served as a captain for Diamond Ranch.<\/p>\n<p>Ardon was one of four captains for the Panthers on the 2010 team who are all going on to distinguished schools.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJacob was a three year starter and a team captain. His year was at linebacker but he also played center when he had to and offensive guard when injuries occurred,\u201d Layton said. He was our vocal leader on defense and was the center of our team breaks.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ardron was known for being the hardest worker on the team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the weight room he always worked hard. He put on a lot of weight by getting in the weight room as often as he could and once he was in there he didn\u2019t stand around. He\u2019s a very smart player who rarely came of the field because he also played on special teams,\u201d Layton said.<\/p>\n<p>Ardron easily made transitions and adjustments and performed academically as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast year he excelled in a 3-4 and this year a 4-3. In the classroom Jacob carried a 4.5 GPA. He has passed AP exams and takes honors and AP courses,\u201d Layton said. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ardron, who lives by Christian values, was always willing to help friends and teammates during his time at Diamond Ranch.<\/p>\n<p>Layton knew he was going to be special right away when he gave him the #54 jersey.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKyle Lengyel was # 54 and if you were going to follow him and play his position and were 54 you have to be the best. Lengyel was a great linebacker with excellent academics and family and so is Jacob. It was a great pleasure coaching Jacob Ardron,\u201d Layton added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Pomona) \u2013 Diamond Ranch linebacker Jacob Ardon verbally committed to Columbia Sunday morning said\u00a0Coach Roddy Layton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[871,12816],"tags":[6712,6718,5204,6717,671],"class_list":["post-21753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college","category-hsfootball","tag-columbia","tag-diamond-ranch-football","tag-jacob-ardron","tag-kyle-lengyel","tag-roddy-layton"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21753"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59144,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21753\/revisions\/59144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}