{"id":6170,"date":"2015-10-15T16:35:05","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T16:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=6170"},"modified":"2015-10-15T16:35:05","modified_gmt":"2015-10-15T16:35:05","slug":"andy-ness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2015\/10\/15\/andy-ness\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Tribune features skating coach Andy Ness &#8217;01"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2014\/03\/StarTrib-e1400513865356.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3927 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2014\/03\/StarTrib-e1400513865356.jpeg\" alt=\"Minneapolis Star Tribune\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>The Star Tribune recently published\u00a0an article highlighting ice skating coach Diane Ness and her son, former Augsburg hockey player <strong>Andy Ness &#8217;01<\/strong>, for their involvement with the Minnesota Wild. The article states that Diane and her company ProEdge Power were recently hired by the Wild as consultants, though some of the players have been training privately with the Nesses for years. The article quotes the Wild\u2019s Chris Porter as saying, &#8220;They\u2019re both incredible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The article states that Andy grew up surrounded by skating and hockey. &#8220;My babysitter growing up was the rink,&#8221; he\u00a0said in the article. That background has paid off. Porter is quoted saying that Diane often tells the players to &#8220;&#8216;Watch Andy,&#8217; because he\u2019s such a phenomenal skater.&#8221; Now, Andy spends the NHL season working with injured Wild players until they regain enough strength to practice and play with the team.<\/p>\n<p>Read &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/skating-coaches-diane-and-andy-ness-push-stars-to-improve\/332265612\/\">Skating coaches Diane, Andy Ness push Wild, NHL stars to improve<\/a>&#8221; on the Star Tribune website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Star Tribune recently published\u00a0an article highlighting ice skating coach Diane Ness and her son, former Augsburg hockey player Andy Ness &#8217;01, for their involvement with the Minnesota Wild. The article states that Diane and her company ProEdge Power were recently hired by the Wild as consultants, though some of the players have been training &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[128,271,1337,2622,2692,2755],"class_list":["post-6170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-in-the-news","tag-alumni-2","tag-augsburg-athletics","tag-ice-hockey","tag-skating","tag-star-tribune","tag-success"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/263"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6170"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6173,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6170\/revisions\/6173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}