{"id":32658,"date":"2013-06-04T13:52:41","date_gmt":"2013-06-04T20:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=32658"},"modified":"2017-06-10T10:54:13","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T17:54:13","slug":"sgs-fernandez-going-to-st-marys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=32658","title":{"rendered":"SG\u2019s Fernandez Going to St. Mary\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_32659\" style=\"width: 478px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/DSC_0157.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32659\" class=\" wp-image-32659 \" alt=\"Fernandez, Friends, Family\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/DSC_0157-1024x540.jpg\" width=\"468\" height=\"247\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-32659\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fernandez, Friends, Family<\/p><\/div>\n<p>San Gabriel\u2019s Isai Fernandez, who played wide receiver, defensive back, and held on kicks for the Matadors, is going to St. Mary\u2019s to continue his education and play football.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel really blessed,\u201d said Fernandez as he signed his letter on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>A three year member of the SG varsity and a key member of the team\u2019s 2011 finals run, Fernandez plans on studying kinesiology.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a lot of hard work and I know its cliche but you always get the people who say that you can\u2019t or your too small but I made it. I want to say thanks for pushing me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fernandez credited his family who are good with him attending a school out in Leavenworth, Kansas. Cold winters, far away, unfamiliar faces, he answered the question of homesickness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know its going to happen,\u201d he said. \u201cBut I\u2019m getting mentally prepared for that. With God I will be able to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fernandez describes the entire playoff run of 2011 when the Matadors defeated Maranatha, Arroyo, and San Dimas as his best memory on the field. When pressed for a personal memory he described a 19-yard tip toe reception along the sidelines against Schurr from that same season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou always dream about making a sideline catch, where you get your feet down,\u201d he said. \u201cOur quarterback Andy Guerrero threw it and I caught it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fernandez reports for football at St. Mary\u2019s on August 15th.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Gabriel\u2019s Isai Fernandez, who played wide receiver, defensive back, and held on kicks for the Matadors, is going to St. Mary\u2019s to continue his education and play football.<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-32658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college","category-hsfootball"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32658","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=32658"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59373,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32658\/revisions\/59373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}