{"id":9580,"date":"2019-01-28T13:10:58","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T17:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=9580"},"modified":"2019-01-28T13:10:58","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T17:10:58","slug":"marshall-commits-to-upei-womens-hoops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=9580","title":{"rendered":"Marshall commits to UPEI women\u2019s hoops"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"StoryBody\" class=\"rtEditor\" title=\"(double-click to edit)\" data-role=\"none\">\n<p><strong>FALL RIVER: <\/strong>Ashleigh Marshall is going from donning the blue and white of the Lockview High Dragons basketball team to the green and white of the UPEI Panthers.<\/p>\n<p>Marshall, a steady force on the court with the Lori Lancaster-coached Dragons, made it official signing her commitment to the Panthers on Jan. 24 at the school in Fall River.<\/p>\n<p>She spoke to <em>The Laker<\/em> on why she decided on UPEI.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9581\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9581\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9581 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/011-1-e1548695292335.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"675\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9581\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ashleigh Marshall signs her papers for UPEI. (Healey photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201d<span class=\"_5yl5\">I chose UPEI because everybody was so nice there and it felt like home because of the community and environment of the school,\u201d said Marshall in an interview on Jan. 25. \u201d The team dynamic was awesome and it had everything I was looking for in a university.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"_5yl5\">She said she was trying to decide between post-secondary schools, which made it difficult but she\u2019s happy with deciding on UPEI. She will be taking a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and hopes to go into Law from there.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"_5yl5\">Since the news broke online once the team made it official with their own tweet about it, Marshall has received a lot of online congratulatory messages.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"_5yl5\">Marshall is eager to get started in September 2019 with the UPEI Panthers women\u2019s basketball team, coached by Matt Gamblin. The Panthers are 12-2 this season in Atlantic University Sport (AUS) women\u2019s basketball play.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"_5yl5\">\u201cI\u2019m excited for <\/span><span class=\"_5yl5\">the fall and what next year brings,\u201d said Marshall. \u201cI think UPEI will be a great place for me to improve basketball wise and a great place to be learning wise as well.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FALL RIVER: Ashleigh Marshall is going from donning the blue and white of the Lockview High Dragons basketball team to the green and white of the UPEI Panthers. Marshall, a steady force on the court with the Lori Lancaster-coached Dragons, made it official signing her commitment to the Panthers on Jan. 24 at the school [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9582,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,21],"tags":[126,2,5,256,257],"class_list":["post-9580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-sports","tag-ashleigh-marshall","tag-fall-river","tag-lockview-high","tag-upei-panthers","tag-womens-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9580","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=9580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9580\/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=9580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}