1. The men\u2019s and women\u2019s soccer teams both made the MIAC playoffs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2. The women\u2019s volleyball team had its second winning season in a row.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
3. Both the men\u2019s and the women\u2019s cross-country teams finished fourth in the MIAC (the best finish for men in nearly twenty years and the best finish for women in nine years).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
4. The football team ended its season with three straight wins to finish 5-5 on the season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
5. Every fall team had a better record than last year and no team finished below .500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
6. Men\u2019s basketball forward Badou Ba \u201925 (Dakar, Senegal), a recipient of four MIAC Defensive Player of the Week awards, was featured in a January Star Tribune<\/em> story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 7. Sophomore guard\/forward Peyton Starks \u201925 (Ellisville, Mo.) was named MIAC Offensive Player of the Week for women\u2019s basketball on Jan. 9 after scoring 25 and 30 points in victories over St. Olaf and St. Scholastica, respectively.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Read more about recent wins from Macalester athletic teams.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1077,"featured_media":19613,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[253,47],"class_list":["post-19483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","tag-athletics","tag-athletics-and-physical-education","mediatype-articles"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"fields":{"article_type":[8],"flickr_photoset_id":"","youtube_id":"","square_thumbnail":false,"press_photos":false,"story_title":"","story_caption":"","rotations":false,"maps":false,"marker_title":"","marker_text":"","geographic_location":false,"feature_embed":"","custom_link_url":"","news_icon_name":"","image_options":false,"main_feature_story":"","custom_image":false,"custom_feature_title":"","custom_feature_caption":"","custom_markup":"","custom_markup_link":"","custom_markup_title":"","custom_markup_caption":"","byline":"","post_thumbnail_style":"default","press_downloads":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1077"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19483"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30987,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19483\/revisions\/30987"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}