{"id":26321,"date":"2023-06-20T19:38:10","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T23:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=26321"},"modified":"2023-06-20T19:38:10","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T23:38:10","slug":"curtis-steps-in-as-head-coach-of-furman-womens-basketball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/curtis-steps-in-as-head-coach-of-furman-womens-basketball\/","title":{"rendered":"Curtis steps in as head coach of Furman Women&#8217;s Basketball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several media outlets reported news about Pierre Curtis stepping in as head coach for Furman Women&#8217;s Basketball after longtime coach and alumna (2000) Jackie Carson was named ACC senior associate commissioner for women&#8217;s basketball. Curtis has coached at Furman for the last decade, most recently serving as associate head coach under Carson. At a press conference, he said, &#8220;When you a<span id=\"29\">ccomplish something\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"29\">that you&#8217;ve wanted for so <\/span><span id=\"33\">long and to do it at a place\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"34\">that you really, really love\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"35\">being at, it&#8217;s special.&#8221; WYFF News 4 covered the news <a href=\"https:\/\/mms.tveyes.com\/Transcript.asp?StationID=2725&amp;DateTime=6%2F16%2F2023+2%3A04%3A06+AM&amp;Term=Furman&amp;PlayClip=TRUE\">on air<\/a> and on its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wyff4.com\/article\/pierre-curtis-named-womens-head-basketball-coach-at-furman\/44157832#\">website<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/mms.tveyes.com\/Transcript.asp?StationID=2720&amp;DateTime=6%2F15%2F2023+11%3A30%3A08+PM&amp;Term=Furman&amp;PlayClip=TRUE\">WSPA 7News<\/a> also covered the press conference.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Longtime coach Pierre Curtis takes the reins at Furman as head coach of Women&#8217;s Basketball. Local TV stations cover the press conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":26323,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,24,6,1578,120],"tags":[2113],"class_list":["post-26321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-athletics","category-in-the-news","category-wspa-7-news","category-wyff-tv","tag-womens-basketball"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26321","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\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}