{"id":37189,"date":"2014-01-20T16:23:36","date_gmt":"2014-01-20T23:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=37189"},"modified":"2014-01-20T16:24:19","modified_gmt":"2014-01-20T23:24:19","slug":"2013-southeast-player-of-the-year-norwalks-rashaad-penny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=37189","title":{"rendered":"2013 Southeast Player of The Year: Norwalk\u2019s Rashaad Penny"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_37190\" style=\"width: 478px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Rashaad-Fresno.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37190\" class=\" wp-image-37190 \" alt=\"Penny on a recent visit to Fresno State.\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Rashaad-Fresno-744x768.jpg\" width=\"468\" height=\"482\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-37190\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Penny on a recent visit to Fresno State.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The distance between the Earth and the Sun is 93 million miles, which is pretty close when you consider how far Jupiter, Saturn and the other outer planets are in proximity.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll deduct half, of one half, of a half of a vote because Norwalk\u2019s Rashaad Penny didn\u2019t record a sack in 2013. That puts Penny\u2019s nearest competitor for the this award in orbit somewhere around Neptune.<\/p>\n<p>Fifty-three total touchdowns (41 rushing). 2, 504 yards rushing (11 yards per attempt), 665 yards receiving and another ten scores. He only caught 21 passes but averaged 31 yards a catch.<\/p>\n<p>All purpose yards; 3,416. Tackles: 68. Interceptions: 2. Fumble recoveries: 1. And he punted.<\/p>\n<p>He outscored 22 Southeast Division schools (including Bonita, El Rancho,\u00a0 and Paramount) by himself with his 320 points.<\/p>\n<p>No one player tilted the field like this guy did in 2013.\u00a0He entered his senior season with 50 touchdowns. When he won this award for the 2012 season we wrote that it wasn\u2019t unreasonable to expect even more in 2013. We were right. He finished his prep career with 103 touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p>Penny was so good that MVS staffer Joe Torosian tweeted out: \u201cPenny is so good that I forgot to breath for ten minutes.\u201d<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The distance between the Earth and the Sun is 93 million miles, which is pretty close when you consider how far Jupiter, Saturn and the other outer planets are in proximity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37189","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37189"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37192,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37189\/revisions\/37192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}