{"id":22518,"date":"2012-02-23T16:30:03","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T23:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=22518"},"modified":"2017-06-10T01:02:27","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T08:02:27","slug":"maranathas-mcgee-commits-to-trinity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=22518","title":{"rendered":"Maranatha&#8217;s McGee Signs with Trinity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_17658\" style=\"width: 524px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/mcgee1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17658\" class=\"size-large wp-image-17658  \" title=\"mcgee1\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/mcgee1-917x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"514\" height=\"430\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-17658\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Darrien McGee<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Maranatha Minuteman standout Darien McGee has signed his letter of intent\u00a0to play football at Trinity International University in Chicago next fall.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">He accepted the offer over Mid America Nazarene in Kansas.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are very happy for him. The school is a wonderful environment and a perfect fit for Darien.\u00a0What my husband and I like most about Trinity is character\u00a0and integrity\u00a0come first and we heard that from the president of the school to the professors to the current students,&#8221; said McGee&#8217;s mom\u00a0Saleama Rubalcava. &#8220;The Head Football Coach said character and integrity is priority on and off the football field and that spoke volumes to us. He said that winning is important but character is key.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>McGee has made huge strides\u00a0since\u00a0he first started playing football in high school.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_22522\" style=\"width: 285px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22522\" class=\"size-large wp-image-22522 \" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/IMAG11891-459x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"461\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-22522\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Darien McGee signs his letter with Trinity<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;He had very little playing time until his senior year\u00a0and when he was given an opportunity he made the best\u00a0of it. Not only did he get a football scholarship, but he is going to a wonderful institution\u00a0of high learning. We are very proud of him,&#8221; Ruvalcaba said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">When McGee\u00a0visited Trinity and stayed on\u00a0campus, his roommate was Stephen Anderson from Whittier Christian.<\/p>\n<p>McGee caught 45 passes for\u00a0662 yards and seven touchdowns\u00a0his senior year. He also rushed for 209 yards and five touchdowns.\u00a0He returned kicks as well and brought one back for 100 yards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maranatha Minuteman standout Darien McGee has signed his letter of intent\u00a0to play football at Trinity International University in Chicago next fall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[871,12816],"tags":[5702,205,1533,6951,1419],"class_list":["post-22518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college","category-hsfootball","tag-darien-mcgee","tag-maranatha","tag-stephen-anderson","tag-trinity","tag-whittier-christian"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22518","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22518"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58897,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22518\/revisions\/58897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}