{"id":1946,"date":"2009-07-18T10:31:15","date_gmt":"2009-07-18T17:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=1946"},"modified":"2009-07-18T10:31:15","modified_gmt":"2009-07-18T17:31:15","slug":"breaking-news-blair-names-andre-collins-girls-basketball-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=1946","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING NEWS!!!! Blair Names Andre Collins Girls Basketball Coach."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1949\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1949\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1949\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/andre-collins-pic.jpg\" alt=\"Andre Collins named Blair Girls Basketball Coach\" width=\"150\" height=\"200\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1949\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andre Collins named Blair Girls Basketball Coach<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Former Detroit Lions linebacker Andre Collins was named the new girls basketball coach at Blair.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The former NFL player brings a basketball coaching credential that includes being a former AAU coach and Sylmar Assistant coach.<\/p>\n<p>Collins most notably was a linebacker with Washington, Cincinnati, Chicago and Detroit in the 1990&#8217;s.\u00a0 He currently serves as Director of Retired Players for the NFLPA.<\/p>\n<p>He also played his college football at Penn State University under coach Joe Paterno.<\/p>\n<p>Collins inherits a program that went 11-18 last season and advanced to the second round of the Division IV-A playoffs, where they eventually lost to St. Paul.<\/p>\n<p>The Vikings cupboard is full as they lose one senior from the 2008-2009 squad and return captain Angeline Jefferson and leading scorer Charie Flynn (12.6 ppg).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Detroit Lions linebacker Andre Collins was named the new girls basketball coach at Blair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[395,397,398,399,92,396,400],"class_list":["post-1946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-school-sports","tag-andre-collins","tag-angeline-jefferson","tag-charie-flynn","tag-joe-paterno","tag-nfl","tag-nflpa","tag-penn-state"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1946"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1951,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946\/revisions\/1951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}