{"id":1926523,"date":"2026-08-04T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1926523"},"modified":"2026-08-04T12:13:58","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T16:13:58","slug":"brantmeier-decaro-heck-earn-uncs-2026-patterson-medals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1926523","title":{"rendered":"Brantmeier, DeCaro &amp; Heck Earn UNC\u2019S 2026 Patterson Medals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Patterson Medal 2026 graphic Brantmeier, DeCaro, Heck\" src=\"https:\/\/admin.goheels.com\/common\/controls\/image_handler.aspx?thumb_prefix=rp_primary&#038;image_path=\/images\/2026\/8\/3\/2026_Patterson_Medal-16x9.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A pair of NCAA champions and a hard-throwing All-America ace on two College World Series teams are the winners of the 2026 Patterson Medals, the University of North Carolina&#8217;s most prestigious honor for athletics excellence and career achievement.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/goheels.com\/news\/2026\/8\/4\/general-brantmeier-decaro-heck-earn-uncs-2026-patterson-medals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pair of NCAA champions and a hard-throwing All-America ace on two College World Series teams are the winners of the 2026 Patterson Medals, the University&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1926524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1926523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-north-carolina-tar-heels","wpcat-80-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1926523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1926525,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926523\/revisions\/1926525"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1926524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1926523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1926523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1926523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}