{"id":22447,"date":"2012-02-21T13:20:36","date_gmt":"2012-02-21T20:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=22447"},"modified":"2017-06-10T10:30:30","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T17:30:30","slug":"covinas-venegas-signs-with-new-mexico-highlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=22447","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Dude&#8221; Signs With the Highlands"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_18501\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/COV-WAL-9-23-11-004.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18501\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18501\" title=\"Vinny Venegas\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/COV-WAL-9-23-11-004-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18501\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vinny &quot;The Dude&quot; Venegas<\/p><\/div>\n<p>(Covina) &#8211; Vinny Venegas, Covina&#8217;a all purpose star, has signed\u00a0to\u00a0play football for New Mexico Highlands, Covina AD Darryl Thomas confirmed Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->&#8220;He signed yesterday. I&#8217;m sure he&#8217;ll be successful.\u00a0He&#8217;s a great kid,&#8221; Thomas said.<\/p>\n<p>Venegas was instrumental\u00a0in the Colts&#8217; success the last two years playing wide receiver, defensive back, returning punts and\u00a0wherever else Thomas\u00a0inserted him.\u00a0He helped Covina advance to the\u00a0Mid-Valley\u00a0Division\u00a0 semi finals\u00a0last year where the Colts fell to eventual champ Monrovia.<\/p>\n<p>Referenced as \u201cThe Dude\u201d by Thomas, Venegas made his varsity debut as a freshman in November of 2008 in the CIF playoffs against Azusa and recorded a tackle. Over the next three seasons he compiled\u00a0 227 carries for 1,358 rushing yards and 31 touchdowns. He caught 128 passes for 2,117 receiving yards and 23 touchdowns. From his defensive back position he recorded 209 tackles, 11 interceptions, and three sacks.<\/p>\n<p>Combined he accounted for 3,475 yards rushing and receiving and a total of 58 touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Covina) &#8211; Vinny Venegas, Covina&#8217;a all purpose star, has signed\u00a0to\u00a0play football for New Mexico Highlands, Covina AD Darryl Thomas confirmed Tuesday.<\/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":[6925,6840,667,2836],"class_list":["post-22447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college","category-hsfootball","tag-c-town-football","tag-covina-colts-football","tag-darryl-thomas","tag-vinny-venegas"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22447","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=22447"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59154,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22447\/revisions\/59154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}