{"id":23473,"date":"2014-06-16T09:03:03","date_gmt":"2014-06-16T16:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=23473"},"modified":"2014-06-16T09:03:27","modified_gmt":"2014-06-16T16:03:27","slug":"mitchell-teen-named-to-u19-national-softball-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=23473","title":{"rendered":"Mitchell teen named to Canadian U19 national softball team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/scanada.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/scanada-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"scanada\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-19767\" \/><\/a><em>Cap tip: ISC Canada East<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t until the beginning of last year\u2019s softball season that Mitchell\u2019s Tyler Pauli wondered if he had the ability to play ball at an elite level.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was going to a game with my dad and I just asked him if he thought I could make Team Canada one day,\u201d Pauli recalled last week. \u201cI grew a lot at the beginning of last year and got bigger and stronger and started the season hitting and fielding well. He told me I had a chance as long as I kept working hard and playing the way I was. That\u2019s really the only time it ever came up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That hard work has paid off, as Pauli, who turns 19 later this month, was one of 17 athletes named to Softball Canada\u2019s Junior Men\u2019s national team May 28.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt sure wasn\u2019t planned or expected,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mitchelladvocate.com\/2014\/06\/04\/mitchell-teen-named-to-u19-national-softball-team\">Click here to keep reading at the Mitchell Advocate<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cap tip: ISC Canada East It wasn\u2019t until the beginning of last year\u2019s softball season that Mitchell\u2019s Tyler Pauli wondered if he had the ability to play ball at an elite level. \u201cI was going to a game with my dad and I just asked him if he thought I could make Team Canada one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6324,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12,27],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23473","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"category-isf","9":"category-youth","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23473"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23475,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23473\/revisions\/23475"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}