{"id":48374,"date":"2022-03-24T09:15:52","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T13:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/?p=48374"},"modified":"2022-03-24T09:15:52","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T13:15:52","slug":"basketball-students-and-coach-garner-state-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/2022\/03\/basketball-students-and-coach-garner-state-honors\/","title":{"rendered":"Basketball Students and Coach Garner State Honors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dnronline.com\/sports\/high_school\/gillenwater-named-visaa-d-iii-co-player-of-the-year\/article_56d8d035-8e2f-55de-a11a-f3ec2a1253b2.html\">, by Cody Eliott, appeared in the Daily News-Record, March 23, 2022.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>A historic season came to a fitting end on Tuesday for Eastern Mennonite.<\/p>\n<p>Trey Gillenwater, a 6-foot-2 senior guard for the Flames, was named the Virginia Independent Schools Athletic Association Division III boys basketball co-player of the year after guiding the program to its first-ever state championship in school history.<\/p>\n<p>EMS battled through an up-and-down regular season that included injuries, illness and other forms of adversity to win three straight games in the state tournament and capture the VISAA Division III title with a 64-56 upset win over Fairfax Christian.<\/p>\n<p>Gillenwater was electric in his final year with the Flames, averaging 21.1 points, 6.2 rebounds and 2.7 assists per game as an off-the-ball guard with a smooth game.<\/p>\n<p>While Gillenwater and fellow co-player of the year Ryan Blakey of Fairfax Christian both headlined the all-state first team, EMS senior point guard Adam Hatter also earned a spot on the second team after a strong cap to his impressive prep career.<\/p>\n<div id=\"tncms-region-article_instory_middle\" class=\"tncms-region hidden-print\">\n<div id=\"tncms-block-702425\" class=\"tncms-block\">\n<div id=\"NRHV_Article_300x250\">Hatter, who has played the most games in program history for the Flames, averaged 11.7 points, 4.1 rebounds, 4.6 assists and 1.5 steals per game as a senior.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>More importantly than his ability to be a strong all-around point guard for Eastern Mennonite was the leadership and guidance he brought to his younger teammates.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Coach of the Year: Eli Crawford<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>EMS first-year coach Eli Crawford, a former standout player at R.E. Lee High School and Eastern Mennonite University, also earned recognition for the historic season.<\/p>\n<p>Crawford, a former EMS assistant, was named the VISAA Division III coach of the year after guiding the Flames to a 16-10 overall record and championship this year.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article, by Cody Eliott, appeared in the Daily News-Record, March 23, 2022. A historic season came to a fitting end on Tuesday for Eastern Mennonite. Trey Gillenwater, a 6-foot-2 senior guard for the Flames, was named the Virginia Independent Schools Athletic Association Division III boys basketball co-player of the year after guiding the program\u2026<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":48376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-48374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-basketball"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48374"}],"curies":[{"name":"gracias","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}