{"id":15494,"date":"2017-12-05T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-05T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/athletics\/2017\/12\/05\/girls-cross-country-sean-walsh-of-north-hunterdon-is-the-nj-com-coach-of-the-year\/"},"modified":"2017-12-05T17:49:29","modified_gmt":"2017-12-05T21:49:29","slug":"girls-cross-country-sean-walsh-of-north-hunterdon-is-the-nj-com-coach-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/athletics\/girls-cross-country-sean-walsh-of-north-hunterdon-is-the-nj-com-coach-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Girls Cross Country: Sean Walsh of North Hunterdon is the NJ.com coach of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/athletics\/files\/2017\/12\/SeanWalsh2017.jpg\" class=\"local-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-15503\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/athletics\/files\/2017\/12\/SeanWalsh2017-300x295.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"254\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/athletics\/files\/2017\/12\/SeanWalsh2017-300x295.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/athletics\/files\/2017\/12\/SeanWalsh2017.jpg 597w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 254px) 100vw, 254px\" \/><\/a>Sean Walsh<\/strong>\u00a0knows well just how much work and how many positive influences need to be present in order for a program to succeed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\">So when his\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/highschoolsports.nj.com\/school\/annandale-north-hunterdon\/girlscrosscountry\/\" class=\"ext-link\" onclick=\"this.target=&#039;_blank&#039;;\">North Hunterdon<\/a>\u00a0girls cross country team found itself at the top of New Jersey, winning the Meet of Champions team title, Walsh understood just how many deserved congratulations for the Lions&#8217; success.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\">Walsh acknowledged his two assistant coaches in\u00a0<strong>Brian Walsh<\/strong>, his brother, and\u00a0<strong>Jeff Shanklin<\/strong>, as well as the Hunterdon Lions Track Club. With year-round training plus the support of the parents and the community as a whole, Walsh believes <\/span>the amount of<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\"> people involved in the process make the victories that much sweeter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\">\u201cThere\u2019s so many people involved,&#8221; Walsh said. &#8220;That\u2019s the cool part about the community and the parents and the girls\u2019 efforts and the track club efforts and the coach\u2019s efforts. When they won the Meet of Champions, it meant so much more because so many people take pride in it and are a part of it. It makes just so much more special.\u201d<br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\">Source: Lion Athletic News Girls Cross Country: Sean Walsh of North Hunterdon is the NJ.com coach of the year <a href=\"http:\/\/highschoolsports.nj.com\/news\/article\/4782390395372822142\/girls-cross-country-sean-walsh-of-north-hunterdon-is-the-njcom-coach-of-the-year\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"ext-link\" onclick=\"this.target=&#039;_blank&#039;;\">Girls Cross Country: Sean Walsh of North Hunterdon is the NJ.com coach of the year<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sean Walsh\u00a0knows well just how much work and how many positive influences need to be present in order for a program to succeed. So when his\u00a0North Hunterdon\u00a0girls cross country team found itself at the top of New Jersey, winning the Meet of Champions team title, Walsh understood just how many deserved congratulations for the Lions&#8217; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":175,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15494","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-lion-pride-archive","7":"entry","8":"override"},"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-20 12:53:05","action":"Draft","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/175"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15494"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15504,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15494\/revisions\/15504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}