{"id":42793,"date":"2024-02-04T12:57:18","date_gmt":"2024-02-04T20:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=42793"},"modified":"2024-02-04T13:01:25","modified_gmt":"2024-02-04T21:01:25","slug":"australian-new-york-gremlin-star-jack-besgrove-finishes-in-top-10-for-world-games-athlete-of-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=42793","title":{"rendered":"Australian \/ New York Gremlin Star Jack Besgrove finishes in top 10 for World Games Athlete of Year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Won Two World Championships in Four Months<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">?? The World Games Athlete of the Year 2023: Australian softball star Jack Besgrove finishes in top 10.<br><br>??? Besgrove won two world championships in four months.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ThPRcqNqkU\">https:\/\/t.co\/ThPRcqNqkU<\/a><\/p>&mdash; WBSC ?? (@WBSC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WBSC\/status\/1754054433099682215?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 4, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbsc.org\/en\/news\/the-world-games-athlete-of-the-year-2023-australia-softball-star-jack-besgrove-finishes-in-top-10?s=04&amp;fbclid=IwAR3-SQO8OxpGpgjjZMbnxmecs_v1fxzgt9LnreNUmlezrM-NalsnnZwE1PE\">From the WBSC:<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Men&#8217;s softball super star Jack Besgrove made the top-10 at&nbsp;<strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theworldgames.org\/awards\/Athlete-of-the-Year-2023-122.\" target=\"_blank\">The World Games Athlete of the Year 2023<\/a><\/strong>, an award open to athletes from all sports on The World Games programme. The Australian left-handed pitcher qualified for the final voting after the first round and finished in 10th place with a total of 17,040 votes, just two behind the ninth place and five behind eighth spot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Besgrove won two World Cups in four months when he helped Australia to their second<strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wbsc.org\/en\/events\/2022-mens-softball-world-cup\/home\" target=\"_blank\">&nbsp;WBSC Men&#8217;s Softball World Cup<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;title in December 2022, and led the green and gold to their first-ever&nbsp;<strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wbsc.org\/en\/events\/2023-u-23-mens-softball-world-cup\/home\" target=\"_blank\">WBSC U-23 Men&#8217;s Softball World Cup<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;in April 2023, where he was named MVP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These two titles allowed Australia to become the highest ranked nation in the&nbsp;<strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/rankings.wbsc.org\/list\/softball\/men\" target=\"_blank\">WBSC\/KONAMI Men&#8217;s Softball World Ranking<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;at the end of 2023.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Won Two World Championships in Four Months From the WBSC: Men&#8217;s softball super star Jack Besgrove made the top-10 at&nbsp;The World Games Athlete of the Year 2023, an award open to athletes from all sports on The World Games programme. The Australian left-handed pitcher qualified for the final voting after the first round and finished [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42769,"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":[28,35,19],"tags":[586,1389,829],"class_list":{"0":"post-42793","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured","8":"category-oceania","9":"category-players","10":"tag-nygremlins","11":"tag-nysoftball","12":"tag-softballoz","13":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42793","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=42793"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42796,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42793\/revisions\/42796"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}