{"id":12830,"date":"2019-11-19T09:30:17","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T13:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=12830"},"modified":"2019-11-19T09:30:17","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T13:30:17","slug":"haley-smiths-play-earns-mvc-all-tournament-team-nod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=12830","title":{"rendered":"Haley Smith\u2019s play earns MVC All Tournament team nod"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>SPRINGFIELD, MO.: <\/strong>It wasn\u2019t the ending Haley Smith and her ISU Red Birds wanted, but looking at the overall season it was a success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Smith,\n a Fall River product, made five saves in the Missouri Valley Conference\n women\u2019s soccer championship, but her Red Birds fell 2-0 to Loyola \nChicago Ramblers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Redbirds finish the year, 14-6, while the \nRamblers improve to 14-4-1 and secured the conference\u2019s automatic bid to\n the NCAA Tournament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the conclusion of the game, Smith, along with two teammates, were announced as MVC All-Tournament Team selections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However,\n for Smith the season was one of accomplishment. One of those was \nbreaking the career shutout record held by the Red Birds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAs my \ncareer was coming to an end, it was most important to me to assure the \nstandard for the program was left as high as possible,\u201d Smith told <strong><em>The Laker <\/em><\/strong>on\n Nov. 19. \u201cIt is important to me that after I complete my time at \nIllinois State the next generations to come are better than I was.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She spoke about setting a new shutout record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBreaking\n the shutout record was important to my team and is a credit to everyone\n who played in front of me and trained beside me,\u201d she said. \u201cThe 2019 \nteam set a high standard for future Redbirds but we hope the program \nwill continue to build off of this year\u2019s success.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Smith said \nmaking it to the conference finals this year got us closer to a \nchampionship season than we have been the last two years, but the team \nfell short of their goal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe did our best to prepare for our second match up against them,\u201d she said. \u201cHowever, they were the better team on game day.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She said with the eight seniors graduating, the Redbirds program will remain in a good place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur\n senior class wanted to end with a championship, but even though we did \nnot get it, we left our team in a good place to build off of this year\u2019s\n success moving into next season,\u201d said Smith.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SPRINGFIELD, MO.: It wasn\u2019t the ending Haley Smith and her ISU Red Birds wanted, but looking at the overall season it was a success. Smith, a Fall River product, made five saves in the Missouri Valley Conference women\u2019s soccer championship, but her Red Birds fell 2-0 to Loyola Chicago Ramblers. The Redbirds finish the year, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[2,838,890],"class_list":["post-12830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-fall-river","tag-haley-smith","tag-isu-red-birds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}