{"id":18421,"date":"2013-03-07T14:13:43","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T22:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/kent-meridians-cruz-earns-international-shot\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T01:40:33","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T08:40:33","slug":"kent-meridians-cruz-earns-international-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/kent-meridians-cruz-earns-international-shot\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent-Meridian&#8217;s Cruz earns international shot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Nikole Cruz, a senior at Kent-Meridian High School, was invited to the Philippines Women&#8217;s National Team soccer camp in Corona, Calif.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Coach Christopher Wells received an email from a scout a couple months ago inquiring about Cruz and inviting her to the camp.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>&#8220;I was really proud of her,&#8221; Wells said. &#8220;Not everyone gets to do something like that, and knowing she was going to have an opportunity to go down there and try out for her heritage \u2013 that&#8217;s really special.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Cruz is captain of the girls soccer team at Kent-Meridian and plays center midfield. With two goals and three assists this season, her technical skills not only made an impression on her school&#8217;s team but also a scout from the Malditas, the Filipino national soccer team, while she was at a college showcase tournament in California.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Cruz&#8217; parents came to the United States from the Philippines 17 years ago and are proud that their daughter gets the unique chance to showcase her skills.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>&#8220;I feel pretty proud, (and) they&#8217;re proud of me,&#8221; Cruz said.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Cruz was also voted team MVP at Kent-Meridian and made the All-South Puget Sound League first team.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Cruz will be trying out for the Malditas from March 25 to April 1.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nikole Cruz, a senior at Kent-Meridian High School, was invited to the Philippines Women&#8217;s National Team soccer camp in Corona, Calif.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":218,"featured_media":18422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-18421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18421"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/218"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18421"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=18421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}