{"id":1322,"date":"2013-05-02T14:26:24","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T18:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2013\/05\/02\/lerner-commits-to-furman\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T19:42:21","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T00:42:21","slug":"lerner-commits-to-furman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/lerner-commits-to-furman\/","title":{"rendered":"Lerner commits to Furman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/learner.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6791 lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 356px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 356\/461;border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"learner\" data-src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/learner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"356\" height=\"461\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><\/a>Miles Lerner, captain of Minnesota state champions Edina High School, will attend Furman this fall and has been awarded a rugby scholarship.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sylQ00S7-SI\">football<\/a> and rugby standout, Lerner also served as captain of the Edina High School football team which finished the season with a 9-2 record.\u00a0 An inside linebacker, Lerner (6\u20190, 200 pounds) will likely find a home in the Paladin backline.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am very excited to attend Furman next fall and to be playing for such a superb rugby program,\u201d says Lerner.\u00a0 \u201cI know that Furman rugby has a great future, \u00a0and I&#8217;m pumped to be a part of the team and part of the brotherhood. I&#8217;m looking forward to the team\u2019s success in the upcoming years that I know we are going to have.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A three-year starter for the Edina rugby team, Lerner picked up the sport as an eighth grader. He currently plays scrumhalf.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Miles Lerner is the epitome of hard work and discipline,\u201d said Edina rugby coach Chris Babiash. \u201cHe&#8217;s fast, athletic, smart, and a student of the game. He is a dream athlete for any rugby program that needs a player to start on day one and become even better throughout his college career.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lerner is part of Furman\u2019s first scholarship rugby class that currently includes Jacob Milchuck (Raleigh, NC), Zach Roberts (Greer, SC) and Adam Miller (Greenville, SC). Last spring, the university, partnering with rugby alumni, launched the scholarship program.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMiles is a solid, athletically built player,\u201d says Furman Coach John Roberts. \u201cHe is highly regarded for his character, competitiveness and intelligence. He should blend in nicely with our club.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Miles is the son of Mark and Shirley Lerner from Minneapolis, Minnesota.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miles Lerner, captain of Minnesota state champions Edina High School,  will attend Furman this fall and has been awarded a rugby scholarship.\u00a0 A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sylQ00S7-SI\">football<\/a> and rugby standout, Lerner also served as captain of the Edina High  School football team which finished the season with a 9-2 record.\u00a0 An  inside linebacker, Lerner (6\u20190, 200 pounds) will likely find a home in  the Paladin backline.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am very excited to attend Furman next  fall and to be playing for such a superb rugby program,\u201d says Lerner.\u00a0  \u201cI know that Furman rugby has a great future, \u00a0and I&#8217;m pumped to be a  part of the team and part of the brotherhood. I&#8217;m looking forward to the  team\u2019s success in the upcoming years that I know we are going to have.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":1323,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","category-rugby"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}