{"id":204,"date":"2007-06-13T12:39:24","date_gmt":"2007-06-13T17:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.accphotos.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/13\/nc-high-schools-produce-first-lacrosse-ua-all-american\/"},"modified":"2011-12-09T12:47:17","modified_gmt":"2011-12-09T16:47:17","slug":"nc-high-schools-produce-first-lacrosse-ua-all-american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.accphotos.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/13\/nc-high-schools-produce-first-lacrosse-ua-all-american\/","title":{"rendered":"NC High Schools produce first lacrosse UA All-American"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">East Chapel Hill midfielder <span class=\"style1\">Tony Mendes has become the first <a href=\"http:\/\/www.underarmourlacrosse.com\/2007\/content\/allamerica\/\">Under Armour All-American<\/a> from the state of <st1:place w:st=\"on\"><st1:state w:st=\"on\">North Carolina<\/st1:state><\/st1:place>.  <\/span>While <st1:state w:st=\"on\">North Carolina<\/st1:state> isn&#8217;t going to best <st1:state w:st=\"on\">New York<\/st1:state> or <st1:state w:st=\"on\"><st1:place w:st=\"on\">Maryland<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> as the hot bed of future lacrosse talent any time soon, this a positive sign that the sport, and more importantly the talent, is growing in the state. <span> <\/span>Only 44 high school seniors are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.underarmourlacrosse.com\/2007\/content\/current.cfm\" title=\"2007 UA Roster\">selected <\/a>for the<span class=\"style1\"> Under Armour All-American teams which are broken down into a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153North\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153South\u00e2\u20ac\u009d team. <span> <\/span>(those designations don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t mean anything in terms of where a player comes from). <span>  <\/span>To be selected to play is an obvious honor.<span>  <\/span>Tony will be playing at <st1:state w:st=\"on\"><st1:place w:st=\"on\">Maryland<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> as he was looking for the chance to get out of the area. <span> <\/span><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"style1\">Below is a youtube clip of highlights from his career at <st1:place w:st=\"on\">East Chapel Hill<\/st1:place>. The moves at the  1:49 remaining<\/span><span class=\"style1\"> mark <\/span><span class=\"style1\"> are just sick. <span> <\/span>[More on Tony from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidelacrosse.com\/page.cfm?pagerid=2&amp;news=fdetail&amp;storyid=166748\">Inside Lacrosse<\/a>]<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"style1\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/2H7nnxFcIYw&#038;color1=0x2b405b&#038;color2=0x6b8ab6&#038;hl=en\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>East Chapel Hill midfielder Tony Mendes has become the first Under Armour All-American from the state of North Carolina. While North Carolina isn&#8217;t going to best New York or Maryland as the hot bed of future lacrosse talent any time soon, this a positive sign that the sport, and more &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[16,25],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.accphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.accphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.accphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.accphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.accphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.accphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1037,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.accphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions\/1037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.accphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.accphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.accphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}