{"id":1927642,"date":"2026-08-12T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1927642"},"modified":"2026-08-12T12:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T16:44:09","slug":"better-than-yesterday-womens-soccer-embraces-a-process-oriented-goal-driven-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1927642","title":{"rendered":"\u201cBetter than Yesterday,\u201d Women\u2019s Soccer Embraces a Process-Oriented, Goal-Driven 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Women's Soccer California Players\" src=\"https:\/\/admin.goduke.com\/common\/controls\/image_handler.aspx?thumb_prefix=rp_primary&#038;image_path=\/images\/2026\/8\/11\/ws-california-girls16x9.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Following an outstanding 2025 season under first-year head coach Kieran Hall, Duke women&#8217;s soccer is gearing up for a highly anticipated 2026 campaign. The Blue Devils begin the regular season this week with matches on the West Coast against Southern California and ninth-ranked UCLA and look to tackle these early-season challenges with energy, quality and confidence.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/goduke.com\/news\/2026\/8\/12\/womens-soccer-better-than-yesterday-womens-soccer-embraces-a-process-oriented-goal-driven-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following an outstanding 2025 season under first-year head coach Kieran Hall, Duke women&#8217;s soccer is gearing up for a highly anticipated 2026 campaign. The Blue Devils&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1927643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1927642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-duke-blue-devils","wpcat-82-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927642","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=1927642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1927644,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927642\/revisions\/1927644"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1927643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1927642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1927642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1927642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}