{"id":7223,"date":"2016-07-21T20:30:17","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T20:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/?p=7223"},"modified":"2016-07-22T13:48:59","modified_gmt":"2016-07-22T13:48:59","slug":"beyond-the-scoreboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/2016\/07\/21\/beyond-the-scoreboard\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond the scoreboard"},"content":{"rendered":"

Each year, Augsburg College athletes sprint, skate, dive, throw, swim, and leap countless times as they prepare for and compete in athletic contests. Because competition records and stats generally offer only a glimpse of what happens on the court, field, or mat, we compiled some lesser-known facts to boost your #AuggiePride and to showcase the teamwork, collaboration, celebration, and effort that converge in Augsburg athletics.<\/strong><\/p>\n

5 | Teams in conference playoffs<\/strong> during this record-breaking year<\/p>\n

4,320 | Rolls used<\/strong> of athletic tape and pre-wrap<\/p>\n

2,840 | Loads of laundry washed<\/strong><\/p>\n

300 | Pounds of candy<\/strong> served at the Auggie Awards ceremony<\/p>\n

7,395 | Pounds of weights<\/strong> added to strength and conditioning facilities<\/p>\n

57 | Community service events<\/strong> at which athletes volunteered<\/p>\n

3.22 | Cumulative G.P.A.<\/strong>earned by athletes\u2014and 14 student-athletes achieved a perfect 4.0 average**<\/p>\n

72,604 | Fans<\/strong> present at home, away, and neutral-site events*<\/p>\n

102 | Minutes played in three overtimes<\/strong> during the men\u2019s hockey MIAC championship game win over Saint John\u2019s University<\/p>\n

1,230 | Jerseys worn<\/strong><\/p>\n

75,357 | Miles traveled<\/strong> for games, meets, and international trips<\/p>\n

29 | Auggie Eagle\u2019s sneaker size<\/strong> as per Red Wing Shoe<\/p>\n

36,430 | Hours spent working out<\/strong> which is equal to 1,518 days, or 217 weeks, or 4 years, 1 month and 3 weeks<\/p>\n

3,284 | Social media followers on<\/strong> @AugsburgAuggies platforms as of June 6<\/p>\n

*Represents events where attendance was taken, not all contests with spectators<\/em>
\n**2015-16 academic year<\/em><\/p>\n

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Web extra:<\/p>\n

2,942 | Hours spent assembling and deconstructing the Edor Nelson Field dome<\/strong> in terms of total student volunteer hours and staff time<\/p>\n

21 | Augsburg athletic teams<\/strong> including 11 women\u2019s and 10 men\u2019s programs<\/p>\n

724-651-47 | Win-loss-tie record<\/strong> for Augsburg\u2019s 13 team sports over the past five school years, a .526 winning percentage.<\/p>\n

35 | CoSIDA Academic All-America honors<\/strong> earned by Augsburg student-athletes since 1981. Augsburg has had 22 CoSIDA Academic All-Americans since 2005.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Each year, Augsburg College athletes sprint, skate, dive, throw, swim, and leap countless times as they prepare for and compete in athletic contests. Because competition records and stats generally offer only a glimpse of what happens on the court, field, or mat, we compiled some lesser-known facts to boost your #AuggiePride and to showcase the <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7224,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[81],"class_list":["post-7223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-stories","tag-summer-2016"],"wps_subtitle":"By the numbers: A year of Augsburg College athletics ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7223"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7263,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7223\/revisions\/7263"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}