{"id":36744,"date":"2018-09-20T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/reporter-athlete-of-the-week-francis-viloria\/"},"modified":"2018-09-20T13:05:09","modified_gmt":"2018-09-20T20:05:09","slug":"reporter-athlete-of-the-week-francis-viloria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/reporter-athlete-of-the-week-francis-viloria\/","title":{"rendered":"Reporter Athlete of the Week: Francis Viloria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Kentridge High School&rsquo;s Francis Viloria, tennis, was selected as the Kent Reporter&rsquo;s Male Athlete of the Week for Sept. 21.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Q: What is your favorite subject in school?<\/p>\n<p>A: Chemistry. I enjoy it. It just comes easy to me.<\/p>\n<p>Q: What other activities do you participate in?<\/p>\n<p>A: I enjoy playing video games. I usually play on Xbox and PC and even older consoles when I have the time.<\/p>\n<p>Q: Person who has helped you succeed the most?<\/p>\n<p>A: My brother has always been crucial to my success. We always competed growing up. Now that he&rsquo;s no longer playing tennis competitively, he&rsquo;s taking time to train me. He also drives me nearly everywhere since our parents always have their hands full.<\/p>\n<p>Q: Do you have a pre- or post-game tradition? What is it?<\/p>\n<p>A: Right before a match, I pound my chest three times to symbolize the three members of my family &#8211; mom, dad, brother. Then I point to the sky to acknowledge God watching me.<\/p>\n<p>Q: Song you currently can&rsquo;t get enough of?<\/p>\n<p>A: &ldquo;Lucky You&rdquo; by Eminem has been replaying on my phone nonstop lately so that&rsquo;s my song of choice right now.<\/p>\n<p><strong>From the Sideline<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Francis is the defending NPSL Olympic Division No. 1 singles player. He qualified for state last year, nearly beating the eventual second-place finisher. So far this season, Francis hasn&rsquo;t lost a single game in four sets at No. 1 singles for Kentridge High School.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><em>Kentridge High School&rsquo;s Francis Viloria, tennis, was selected as the Kent Reporter&rsquo;s Male Athlete of the Week for Sept. 21.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":36760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-36744","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\/36744"}],"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\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36744"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=36744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}