{"id":2281,"date":"2014-05-12T15:30:31","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T15:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2014\/05\/12\/culvers-anthony-commits-to-furman\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T14:42:59","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T18:42:59","slug":"culvers-anthony-commits-to-furman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/culvers-anthony-commits-to-furman\/","title":{"rendered":"Culver&#8217;s Anthony commits to Furman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/anthony5.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-11339 lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 491px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 491\/614;border: 1px solid black;\" alt=\"Michael Anthony (left) and Coach Daryrell Knowlton\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/anthony5.jpg\" width=\"491\" height=\"614\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><\/a>Michael Anthony, a two-year team captain and Indiana select side player, has accepted a Furman rugby scholarship and will join the Paladins this fall.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony, 5\u201910, 170 pounds, is a senior on the powerful Culver Military Academy rugby team. The team was a state semi-finalist in 2013 and finished runner up in 2012. Anthony, who attended the Furman Rugby Camp in 2012, plays scrum-half.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMichael is very athletic, quick and as a former wrestler has a fantastic sense of balance,\u201d says Furman head coach John Roberts. \u201cHe is one of top 9s in the Midwest, a natural leader and we are looking forward to having him at Furman.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Anthony has started all four years for CMA and is from Wakarusa, Indiana. He is the son of Deb and Kevin Anthony.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThroughout the last four years I have fallen in love with the competitive and physically demanding sport of rugby,\u201d says Anthony. \u201cI know that the Furman rugby team will become a national force to be dealt with, and I am excited to join in on the Furman rugby\u2019s pursuit of excellence with my future teammates.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Anthony joins Culver alumni Turner Morsches, a junior, \u00a0and Lucas Ward, a sophomore, \u00a0on the Furman team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis physical tenacity is infectious and he is always leading from the front foot,\u201d said CMA head coach Darrell Knowlton. \u201cMike&#8217;s integrity and intelligence, on and off the pitch has set the standard of what it is to be a Culver Military Academy Rugby player. \u00a0He will be missed greatly, but knowing that he gets to continue at a great institution like Furman, where he will join fellow CMA rugby alumni is reassuring.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Anthony, a two-year team captain and Indiana select side player, has accepted a Furman rugby scholarship and will join the Paladins this fall.\u00a0 Anthony, 5\u201910, 170 pounds, is a senior on the powerful Culver Military Academy rugby team. The team was a state semi-finalist in 2013 and finished runner up in 2012. Anthony, who attended the Furman Rugby Camp in 2012, plays scrum-half.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":13195,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2281","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\/2281","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=2281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}