{"id":6211,"date":"2015-10-29T15:13:57","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T15:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/jsuflash\/?p=6211"},"modified":"2015-10-29T15:13:57","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T15:13:57","slug":"tiger-sports-spotlight-william-golston-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/2015\/10\/29\/tiger-sports-spotlight-william-golston-jr\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiger Sports Spotlight: William Golston Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash2025\/2015\/10\/29\/tiger-sports-spotlight-william-golston-jr\/screen-shot-2015-10-29-at-9-07-43-am\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6227\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6227\" style=\"border: 0px\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash2025\/files\/2015\/10\/Screen-Shot-2015-10-29-at-9.07.43-AM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"271\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a>Aniecia Brewster<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>MC Contributor\/Staff Writer<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s more than a game for William Golston Jr., the wide receiver for the Jackson State University football team.<\/p>\n<p>Golston is well known for being a part of the football team and men\u2019s track and field team as a jumper.<\/p>\n<p>Golston transferred to JSU last year from South Alabama. He chose JSU because of the great culture and tradition of the football team.<\/p>\n<p>Golston finds something unique about himself being that he is mixed with African-American, Cherokee Indian and Chinese.<\/p>\n<p>He plans to make it as far as possible in football and after that he wants to open his own training facility for student athletes to better themselves in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Golston wants to do anything possible to help his team win and will step up when things don\u2019t seem to be going in JSU way.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6245 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash2025\/files\/2015\/10\/unnamed-21-289x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"289\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Before each game, Golston rehearses strategies that they have made during the week and he plays the game in his head the night before and on game day.<\/p>\n<p>Golston is very blessed to have such a strong support system from his family and friends.<\/p>\n<p>He feels football does prepare him for life because the things he goes through by being an athlete made him mentally tough.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe season is a roller coaster right now, but as we stay together and become closer as a team it will get better and we will see changes,\u201d said Golston.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aniecia Brewster MC Contributor\/Staff Writer It\u2019s more than a game for William Golston Jr., the wide receiver for the Jackson State University football team. Golston is well known for being a part of the football team and men\u2019s track and field team as a jumper. Golston transferred to JSU last year from South Alabama. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6211","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sports","7":"category-tiger-sports-spotlight"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}