{"id":663,"date":"2013-06-04T21:05:10","date_gmt":"2013-06-04T21:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teampopo.com\/?p=663"},"modified":"2013-06-04T21:19:12","modified_gmt":"2013-06-04T21:19:12","slug":"team-po-po-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/teampopo.com\/?p=663","title":{"rendered":"Team Po Po Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>May was an extremely busy month for Team Po Po. The team participated in 3 tournaments with two being out of town events.<\/p>\n<p>The first weekend in May, The team traveled to St. Louis for the USJN Gateway Challenge. You can read\u00a0 recap<a href=\"http:\/\/teampopo.com\/?p=652\"> here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The following week the team was in Memphis for the Rage on the River. Several players had break out games.\u00a0\u00a0 Athletic scorer, <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Brenda Fields<\/strong><\/span>, had her highest point total thus far in the season with 15 points against Oklahoma Magic.\u00a0 <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Sydney Malone<\/span><\/strong> was all over the place getting rebounding, steals,\u00a0 and penetrating by players for a total of 11 points against Alabama Navigators. During an overtime thriller with the, Memphis Lady Bobcats Select, all around guard, <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Jasmine Suggs<\/span><\/strong>, lead the team in scoring with 13 points.<\/p>\n<p>During the team&#8217;s off week from competition, three players, <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">D<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">estiny Henderson<\/span><\/strong>, <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Ari-Zhane Lynch<\/span> <\/strong>and <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Jasmine Suggs<\/strong><\/span>,\u00a0 volunteered as hostesses for the Memphis Beat the Odds Foundation awards banquet.<\/p>\n<table align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/teampopo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/942801_10100577260856800_1632730759_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-673\" title=\"942801_10100577260856800_1632730759_n\" src=\"http:\/\/teampopo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/942801_10100577260856800_1632730759_n-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/teampopo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/945289_10100577260911690_1194054990_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-674\" title=\"945289_10100577260911690_1194054990_n\" src=\"http:\/\/teampopo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/945289_10100577260911690_1194054990_n-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/teampopo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/182859_10100577261131250_911128574_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-675\" title=\"182859_10100577261131250_911128574_n\" src=\"http:\/\/teampopo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/182859_10100577261131250_911128574_n-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>During Memorial Day weekend, the team traveled to the Nashville area, to take part in the Adidas Memorial event. This was the first time back on the court for <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Rachelle Parks<\/span><\/strong> since injuring her knee in November. Rachelle displayed that she still has the skills to clear out for rebounds, range to shoot threes, and aggressive strength and mindset to play at a high level. Foul trouble was the only thing that could keep high energy, <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Deja Faulkner<\/strong><\/span>, from scoring. She lead the team with 16 points despite sitting out for a majority of the game against St. Louis Team Adidas. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Destiny Henderson<\/strong><\/span> had her best scoring efforts of the season with 10 points. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Aliyah Herod<\/strong><\/span> has missed several events due to track. However, she showed up in a big way during the battle against the MS Glory. She scored 9 points along with being 5 of 6 from the free throw line during a come from behind victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May was an extremely busy month for Team Po Po. The team participated in 3 tournaments with two being out of town events. The first weekend in May, The team traveled to St. Louis for the USJN Gateway Challenge. You can read\u00a0 recap here. The following week the team was in Memphis for the Rage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/teampopo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/teampopo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/teampopo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/teampopo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/teampopo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=663"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/teampopo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":671,"href":"http:\/\/teampopo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions\/671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/teampopo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/teampopo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/teampopo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}