{"id":6447,"date":"2013-12-21T10:22:07","date_gmt":"2013-12-21T15:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=6447"},"modified":"2013-12-21T10:22:07","modified_gmt":"2013-12-21T15:22:07","slug":"duke-volleyballer-named-third-team-all-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=6447","title":{"rendered":"Duke volleyballer named third-team All-America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_6448\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6448\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/dukeemilysklar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/dukeemilysklar.jpg\" alt=\"Emily Sklar.\" width=\"160\" height=\"200\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6448\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6448\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emily Sklar.<\/figcaption><\/figure>Duke sophomore outside hitter Emily Sklar has earned third-team All-America honors as announced by the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA).<\/p>\n<p>Sklar, who was named the Atlantic Coast Conference Player of the Year, guided Duke (28-5, 18-2 ACC) to the 2013 conference crown, totaling 405 kills, 222 digs, 24 service aces and 43 blocks. The only sophomore in Duke history to garner conference player of the year recognition, Sklar knocked down 3.89 kills per set to rank second in the ACC.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Sklar, eleven other conference student-athletes received honorable mention, including three additional Blue Devils. Also placing student-athletes on the honorable mention list were Florida State (3), North Carolina (2), Virginia Tech (2) and Notre Dame (1).<\/p>\n<p>ACC on 2013 AVCA Division I Third-Team All-America<\/p>\n<p>Emily Sklar                      Duke<\/p>\n<p>ACC on 2013 AVCA Division I Honorable Mention All-America<\/p>\n<p>Jovana Bjelica                  North Carolina     <\/p>\n<p>Kathryn Caine                  Virginia Tech         <\/p>\n<p>Maggie Deichmeister     Duke                       <\/p>\n<p>Victoria Hamsher            Virginia Tech         <\/p>\n<p>Jeni Houser                       Notre Dame          <\/p>\n<p>Ali McCurdy                     Duke<br \/>\nAshley Neff                       Florida State    <\/p>\n<p>Paige Neuenfeldt             North Carolina  <\/p>\n<p>Jeme Obeime                    Duke     <\/p>\n<p>Elise Walch                      Florida State    <\/p>\n<p>Nicole Walch                   Florida State<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Duke sophomore outside hitter Emily Sklar has earned third-team All-America honors as announced by the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA). Sklar, who was named the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6447","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=6447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6449,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6447\/revisions\/6449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}