{"id":89192,"date":"2025-03-17T14:27:36","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T21:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=89192"},"modified":"2025-03-17T15:58:22","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T22:58:22","slug":"apu-football-returns-but-drops-to-d-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=89192","title":{"rendered":"APU Football Returns, But Drops to D-3"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_89193\" style=\"width: 730px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-89193\" class=\"size-full wp-image-89193\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/APU.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"514\" srcset=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/APU.jpeg 720w, http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/APU-400x286.jpeg 400w, http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/APU-70x50.jpeg 70w, http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/APU-150x107.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-89193\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>APU football last took the field in 2019&#8230;they will retake it in 2026 in D-3.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Azusa Pacific University announced the return of its football program in a news release on Monday morning.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Cougars will retake the field in 2026 after dropping football in December 2020. APU did not play football during the COVID shutdown.<\/p>\n<p>APU\u2019s athletic teams will drop to NCAA Division III and compete in the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC).<\/p>\n<p>The search for a new head football coach is underway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Azusa Pacific University announced the return of its football program in a news release on Monday morning.<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89192","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=89192"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89196,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89192\/revisions\/89196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}