{"id":6796,"date":"2013-01-29T23:39:48","date_gmt":"2013-01-30T07:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sjcctimes.com\/?p=6796"},"modified":"2013-02-01T15:32:38","modified_gmt":"2013-02-01T23:32:38","slug":"the-spirit-is-in-the-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sjcctimes.com\/es\/6796\/sports\/the-spirit-is-in-the-fans\/","title":{"rendered":"The spirit is in the fans"},"content":{"rendered":"

Opinion<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Last semester, the question about Jaguar sports was \u201cIs it the fans?\u201d<\/p>\n

It might have had a minute effect on football and volleyball as they had more losses than wins last season.<\/p>\n

But it clearly didn\u2019t influence cross country as they went to the state championships. In fact, not having any fans present might have motivated them that much more to win.<\/p>\n

Both men\u2019s and women\u2019s basketball might be motivated also as they have had success with a small home crowd in the stands.<\/p>\n

Actually, men\u2019s basketball we went undefeated (7-0) at home in 2012, women\u2019s basketball was building steam with a winning home record, and both teams had few \u201ccheeks-in-seats.\u201d<\/p>\n

And softball, one of the most successful sports on campus, has never really had a fan problem because their games are usually during the day when students are on campus.<\/p>\n

Plus, the softball team has resembled giants amongst little people in the South Conference for the past 15 years.<\/p>\n

Still, whether the Jaguars are successful or not, the fans are the heartbeat of the stands, literally creating energy for the teams to build on.<\/p>\n

When people invented the term \u201cteam spirit,\u201d they must have been thinking of how the body heat from people creates the spirit of a sport.<\/p>\n

Sure, a team can be great without fans, but the Jaguars can be champions with them.<\/p>\n

SJCC student athletes are the warriors of our school who fight for the pride of Jaguars and represent the campus on the national level.<\/p>\n

They represent us, so we should represent them.<\/p>\n

Who knows, maybe your shouts and chants will motivate your classmates, friends or family members to run faster, jump higher, hit harder and be greater for you, the fans.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Opinion Last semester, the question about Jaguar sports was \u201cIs it the fans?\u201d It might have had a minute effect on football and volleyball as they had more losses than wins last season. But it clearly didn\u2019t influence cross country as they went to the state championships. In fact, not having any fans present might…<\/p>","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"staff_name":[606],"class_list":["post-6796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","staff_name-patrick-loera"],"yoast_head":"\nThe spirit is in the fans - City College Times<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sjcctimes.com\/es\/6796\/sports\/the-spirit-is-in-the-fans\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_ES\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The spirit is in the fans - City College Times\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Opinion Last semester, the question about Jaguar sports was \u201cIs it the fans?\u201d It might have had a minute effect on football and volleyball as they had more losses than wins last season. But it clearly didn\u2019t influence cross country as they went to the state championships. In fact, not having any fans present might...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/sjcctimes.com\/es\/6796\/sports\/the-spirit-is-in-the-fans\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"City College Times\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SJCityCollegeTimes\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-01-30T07:39:48+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2013-02-01T23:32:38+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@sjcctimes\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@sjcctimes\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Escrito por\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\" Patrick Loera\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Tiempo de lectura\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minuto\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"The spirit is in the fans - City College Times","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/sjcctimes.com\/es\/6796\/sports\/the-spirit-is-in-the-fans\/","og_locale":"es_ES","og_type":"article","og_title":"The spirit is in the fans - City College Times","og_description":"Opinion Last semester, the question about Jaguar sports was \u201cIs it the fans?\u201d It might have had a minute effect on football and volleyball as they had more losses than wins last season. But it clearly didn\u2019t influence cross country as they went to the state championships. In fact, not having any fans present might...","og_url":"https:\/\/sjcctimes.com\/es\/6796\/sports\/the-spirit-is-in-the-fans\/","og_site_name":"City College Times","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SJCityCollegeTimes","article_published_time":"2013-01-30T07:39:48+00:00","article_modified_time":"2013-02-01T23:32:38+00:00","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@sjcctimes","twitter_site":"@sjcctimes","twitter_misc":{"Escrito por":" Patrick Loera","Tiempo de lectura":"1 minuto"}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sjcctimes.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sjcctimes.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sjcctimes.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sjcctimes.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sjcctimes.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6796"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sjcctimes.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7029,"href":"https:\/\/sjcctimes.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6796\/revisions\/7029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sjcctimes.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sjcctimes.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sjcctimes.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6796"},{"taxonomy":"staff_name","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sjcctimes.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff_name?post=6796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}