{"id":751,"date":"2018-09-17T10:23:10","date_gmt":"2018-09-17T16:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/?p=751"},"modified":"2019-01-10T10:25:54","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T16:25:54","slug":"simmons-honored-by-njcaa-region-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/simmons-honored-by-njcaa-region-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Simmons Honored by NJCAA Region II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Seminole State College baseball Coach Lloyd Simmons was honored with a \u201cDistinguished Service Award\u201d at the NJCAA Region II Annual Meeting in Tulsa last Thursday, Sept. 13.\u00a0 Among those present to celebrate the coach\u2019s recognition were several former Trojan players.\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/simmons.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-752\" width=\"580\" height=\"386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/simmons.jpg 380w, https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/simmons-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/simmons-50x33.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><figcaption><em> Pictured (left to right) are former MLB pitcher and SSC Regent Ryan Franklin, Simmons, former NJCAA World Series \u201cBig Stick Award Winner\u201d SSC Regent Curtis Morgan, current SSC Trojan Coach Mack Chambers and Assistant Baseball Coach James Martin.\u00a0 <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\n\nSimmons retired from SSC in 2016. During his 30 years at the college, he led teams to the NJCAA national tournament 13 times. He was also recognized as the most winning coach in collegiate baseball history in the nation with a record of 1,495-271 in 1999. He ended his coaching career with more than 1,800 wins. Along the way, more than 200 of his players signed professional contracts, 43 with the MLB.&nbsp;\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Seminole State College baseball Coach Lloyd Simmons was honored with a \u201cDistinguished Service Award\u201d at the NJCAA Region II Annual Meeting in Tulsa last Thursday, Sept. 13.\u00a0 Among those present to celebrate the coach\u2019s recognition were several former Trojan players.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":752,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[40,43],"class_list":["post-751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-http-www-sscok-edu-media-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-september-2018"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":753,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751\/revisions\/753"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}