{"id":2843,"date":"2015-04-17T13:23:56","date_gmt":"2015-04-17T17:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racquetclub1.com\/WP1\/?p=2843"},"modified":"2015-04-17T13:23:56","modified_gmt":"2015-04-17T17:23:56","slug":"kevin-metka-receives-big-10-medal-of-honor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racquetclub1.com\/WP1\/kevin-metka-receives-big-10-medal-of-honor\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Metka Receives Big 10 Medal of Honor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Kevin Metka for winning the Big 10 Medal of Honor. \u00a0This is the conference&#8217;s most exclusive award and recognizes academic and athletic excellence. \u00a0Only 28 athletes earn this award each year.<\/p>\n<p>Metka, a graduate of Worthington Kilbourne is majoring in Engineering and is a 2 time ITA Scholar Athlete. \u00a0He is one of 12 Buckeyes to ever win 100 Doubles Matches. \u00a0He is currently ranked #4 in the Nation in Doubles with Ralf Steinbach. \u00a0Last year Kevin competed in the closest NCAA Doubles Final of all time. \u00a0In addition to this, Kevin&#8217;s accomplishments at Ohio State include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Three time Academic All Big Ten honoree<\/li>\n<li>Five time Ohio State Scholar-Athlete<\/li>\n<li>2014 2nd Team All Big 10<\/li>\n<li>2014 ITA Doubles All American<\/li>\n<li>2014 ITA All Tournament Team at 5 singles and 1 Doubles<\/li>\n<li>2013 ITA National Indoor Doubles Consolation Champ<\/li>\n<li>Clinched 2 wins in Singles on ITA Indoor National Championship Team<\/li>\n<li>Clinched win versus Florida saving match points on 2014 NCAA Quarterfinalist Team<\/li>\n<li>NCAA All Tournament Team in Doubles<\/li>\n<li>56-17 record in Singles, 104-19 record in doubles<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>More on the Big Ten Medal of Honor can be found on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ohiostatebuckeyes.com\/genrel\/041315aae.html\">Ohio State Site<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/racquetclub1.com\/WP1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/KEVIN-METKA21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2842\" src=\"https:\/\/racquetclub1.com\/WP1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/KEVIN-METKA21-300x232.jpg\" alt=\"KEVIN METKA2\" width=\"300\" height=\"232\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Kevin Metka for winning the Big 10 Medal of Honor. \u00a0This is the conference&#8217;s most exclusive award and recognizes academic and athletic excellence. \u00a0Only 28 athletes earn this award each year. Metka, a graduate of Worthington Kilbourne is majoring in Engineering and is a 2 time ITA Scholar Athlete. \u00a0He is one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"featured_image_src":{"landsacpe":false,"list":false,"medium":false,"full":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racquetclub1.com\/WP1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2843"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racquetclub1.com\/WP1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racquetclub1.com\/WP1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racquetclub1.com\/WP1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racquetclub1.com\/WP1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/racquetclub1.com\/WP1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2844,"href":"https:\/\/racquetclub1.com\/WP1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2843\/revisions\/2844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racquetclub1.com\/WP1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racquetclub1.com\/WP1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racquetclub1.com\/WP1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}