{"id":3796,"date":"2015-05-26T21:02:43","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T21:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2015\/05\/26\/turner-to-join-paladins\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T14:47:46","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T18:47:46","slug":"turner-to-join-paladins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/turner-to-join-paladins\/","title":{"rendered":"Turner to join Paladins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/newsimg.furman.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/drew1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-18050 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/drew1-medium.jpg\" alt=\"drew1\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/218;\" \/><\/a>Andrew Turner, a resident of Muscat, Oman who began playing rugby in third grade, will attend Furman University next year and has committed to joining the Furman rugby team.<\/p>\n<p>Turner, who attended the 2014 Furman Rugby Camp, has played rugby in Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong. He is a member of the Muscat Pirates where he plays wing and fly-half. He is the son of Mark and Julie Turner. Mr. Turner is a U.S. diplomat and U.S. Army veteran. Mrs. Turner is an elementary school teacher.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaving grown up playing rugby overseas I have always been fascinated by different cultures and backgrounds and how on the field, regardless of our different lives, rugby teams always play with a special bond and mutual respect for one another,\u201d said Turner. \u201cI am looking forward to playing on a rugby team in America. The one sport that has always been present in my life overseas is rugby, and I am glad Furman will provide me the opportunity to further excel as an athlete and student.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Turner will be one of three international players on Furman\u2019s 2015 recruiting class, which also includes <a href=\"http:\/\/newspress.furman.edu\/2015\/03\/rein-commits-to-furman\/\">Jeff Rein,<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/newspress.furman.edu\/2015\/03\/williams-to-be-a-paladin\/\">John Williams<\/a> (both of Nashville, TN),\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/newspress.furman.edu\/2015\/03\/hager-to-commits-to-furman\/\">Josh Hager<\/a>, (Whispering Pines, N.C.) <a href=\"http:\/\/newspress.furman.edu\/2015\/01\/willis-commits-to-furman\/\">Austin Willis<\/a> (Atlanta), <a href=\"http:\/\/newspress.furman.edu\/2015\/04\/clarke-to-join-paladins\/\">Aidan Clarke<\/a> (Connecticut), Pierce Kirkland (Houston), <a href=\"http:\/\/newspress.furman.edu\/2015\/04\/greco-to-join-paladins\/\">Robbie Greco<\/a> (England) and Thomas Trankle (South Africa). Last fall, Furman captured the Southern Rugby Conference Title and ended the season ranked 6th in the nation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are thrilled to have Drew join our team,\u201d said Furman Coach John Roberts. \u201cHe had superb camp last year. From a personality and play perspective he will fit nicely into our program. We welcome his experience.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Turner, a resident of Muscat, Oman who began playing rugby in third grade, will attend Furman University next year and has committed to joining the Furman rugby team. Turner, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":14918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3796","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\/3796","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=3796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}