{"id":2184,"date":"2014-04-11T19:33:26","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T19:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2014\/04\/11\/stumpf-to-join-paladins\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T14:42:41","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T18:42:41","slug":"stumpf-to-join-paladins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/stumpf-to-join-paladins\/","title":{"rendered":"Stumpf to join Paladins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/stumpf.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-10945 lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 384px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 384\/459;border: 1px solid black;\" alt=\"stumpf\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/stumpf.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"459\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><\/a>John Stumpf, a fullback and flyhalf who has played rugby since he was three-years old, will enroll at Furman University in August and join the Paladin rugby team.<\/p>\n<p>Stumpf, a student at Gill St. Bernards School (Gladstone, NJ) is a member of the Morris U19 team and the New Jersey Blaze, a 7s team. Stumpf, 6\u20193, 170 pounds,\u00a0 served as captain of the New Jersey All-State U17 team his sophomore year. Last year, he was a member of the New Jersey All-State U-19 team.<\/p>\n<p>Stumpf began playing rugby in pre-school and has played tackle rugby for 8 years. He, too, kicks for touch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJohn is a great fit for our university and team,\u201d said Furman Coach John Roberts. \u201cHis experience and athleticism will be a welcome addition to our squad. In the coming years we will be making a hard push into 7s and I know that John\u2019s skills will be especially helpful in this area.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a dream come true to be able to play the sport I love at a very competitive college level,\u201d says Stumpf. \u201cThe fact that it\u2019s happening at Furman is even better. I am truly grateful to be a Paladin.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Stumpf, a fullback and flyhalf who has played rugby since he was three-years old, will enroll at Furman University in August and join the Paladin rugby team. Stumpf, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":13074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2184","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\/2184","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}