{"id":5317,"date":"2013-04-16T23:30:43","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T03:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=5317"},"modified":"2013-04-16T23:51:26","modified_gmt":"2013-04-17T03:51:26","slug":"acc-outdoor-track-field-championships-begins-thursday-in-raleigh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=5317","title":{"rendered":"ACC Outdoor Track &#038; Field Championships begin Thursday in Raleigh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2013 Atlantic Coast Conference Men\u2019s and Women\u2019s Outdoor Track &#038; Field Championships are set to begin Thursday, April 18, and will continue through Saturday, April 20. The three-day event will be held in Raleigh, N.C., on the NC State campus.<\/p>\n<p>Fans can follow the action on all three days via live video streaming on theACC.com. Coverage is scheduled for 6-9 p.m. on Thursday, 5-8:30 p.m. on Friday, and 4-8 p.m. on Saturday. Viewers can access the webcasts directly at <a href=\"http:\/\/theacc.co\/OTFWatchLive\">http:\/\/theacc.co\/OTFWatchLive<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Live results will be available throughout the event on the championship website:  <a href=\"http:\/\/theacc.co\/OTFliveresults\">http:\/\/theacc.co\/OTFliveresults<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Competition begins Thursday at 10 a.m. with the women\u2019s javelin. Other highlights include the heptathlon and decathlon events, plus field events, including the women\u2019s pole vault. The women\u2019s 10,000-meter finals are set for 7:45 p.m., followed by the men\u2019s 10,000 meters at 8:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>NC State will host the ACC Championship for the ninth yea and the first time since 2003, when the Florida State men and North Carolina women won the title. The Virginia Tech men are the defending ACC champions, while the Clemson women will be seeking their fourth straight conference title.<\/p>\n<p>North Carolina has won a conference-best 14 ACC Women\u2019s Outdoor Track &#038; Field Championships, ahead of Virginia\u2019s and Clemson\u2019s five. On the men\u2019s side, Maryland leads with 26 titles, followed by Clemson with 11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2013 Atlantic Coast Conference Men\u2019s and Women\u2019s Outdoor Track &#038; Field Championships are set to begin Thursday, April 18, and will continue through Saturday,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,81,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","category-n-c-state-wolfpack","category-north-carolina-tar-heels","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-81-id","wpcat-80-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5317","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5317"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5321,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5317\/revisions\/5321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}