{"id":4439,"date":"2016-04-20T19:40:44","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T23:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/04\/20\/tudora-to-be-paladin\/"},"modified":"2022-11-06T20:53:28","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T01:53:28","slug":"tudora-to-be-paladin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/tudora-to-be-paladin\/","title":{"rendered":"Tudora to be Paladin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-23690 alignleft lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/tudora2-medium.jpg\" alt=\"tudora2\" width=\"265\" height=\"265\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 265px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 265\/265;\" \/>Michael Tudora, an 11-year Canadian rugby player and team captain, has committed to Furman and will enroll in the fall.<\/p>\n<p>Tudora, son of Alex and Michelle Tudora, attends Donald A Wilson Secondary School in Ontario. He has played for the <a href=\"http:\/\/ajaxwanderers.com\/\">Ajax Wanderers<\/a>, a club team, since 2005.<\/p>\n<p>A versatile athlete, Tudora (6\u20192, 205 pounds) has played every position but fullback. His current position is flanker. Tudora\u2019s father and uncle, Fugigi Constantine, played rugby for the Romanian National Rugby team.<\/p>\n<p>The addition of Tudora boosts the number of international players on the Furman roster to five. Patrick Musau (Kenya), Thomas Trankle (South Africa), Matty Newman (England) and Adrian Marcogliese (Canada) have played outside the United States.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am really excited to join Furman,\u201d said Tudora. \u201cThe University has an extremely strong reputation for both academics and rugby. So it is a good fit for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Coach John Roberts said Tudora\u2019s experience will be a welcomed addition to the team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMichael has a wealth of rugby knowledge, and he comes from a family with rugby in their blood,\u201d he said. \u201cI am looking forward to working with him.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Tudora, an 11-year Canadian rugby player and team captain, has committed to Furman and will enroll in the fall. Tudora, son of Alex and Michelle Tudora, attends Donald A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":15813,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,25,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","category-rugby","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4439","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=4439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}