{"id":1933124,"date":"2026-09-15T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1933124"},"modified":"2026-09-15T12:14:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T16:14:14","slug":"samuels-smith-and-weik-named-august-heart-of-the-pack-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1933124","title":{"rendered":"Samuels, Smith and Weik Named August Heart of the Pack Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"HOP 2025\" src=\"https:\/\/gopack.com\/common\/controls\/image_handler.aspx?thumb_prefix=rp_primary&#038;image_path=\/images\/2025\/9\/9\/HOP_Website_-_2025.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>RALEIGH, N.C. \u2013 Qadence Samuels (women&#8217;s basketball), Jordan Smith (volleyball) and Kendall Weik (softball) have been named the August 2026 winners of the Heart of the Pack award, as announced by the NC State Department of Athletics on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gopack.com\/news\/2026\/9\/15\/pack-athletics-samuels-smith-and-weik-named-august-heart-of-the-pack-winners\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RALEIGH, N.C. \u2013 Qadence Samuels (women&#8217;s basketball), Jordan Smith (volleyball) and Kendall Weik (softball) have been named the August 2026 winners of the Heart of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1933125,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1933124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-n-c-state-wolfpack","wpcat-81-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1933124","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=1933124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1933124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1933126,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1933124\/revisions\/1933126"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1933125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1933124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1933124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1933124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}