{"id":130509,"date":"2015-04-09T18:00:30","date_gmt":"2015-04-10T01:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=130509"},"modified":"2015-04-09T09:28:16","modified_gmt":"2015-04-09T16:28:16","slug":"naia-waves-farewell-to-oklahoma-baptist-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/naia-waves-farewell-to-oklahoma-baptist-university\/","title":{"rendered":"NAIA Waves Farewell to Oklahoma Baptist University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em> By Lileana Pearson, College Swimming World Intern<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This was Oklahoma Baptist University&#8217;s last season with the NAIA. Head coach at OBU, Dr. Sam Freas,\u00a0is grateful for his time in the NAIA which he&#8217;s used to develop talent and character.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A famous coach said long ago that enthusiasm and motivation are contagious, but the bottom 30 percent of your team develops the team culture,&#8221; Coach Freas said. &#8220;If some of the bottom 30 percent in talent become some of your best through hard work, think about what is does to a team culture. The NCAA does not permit such a thing, which is against my philosophy. Small college athletics is all about developing people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Their two years in NAIA have allowed them to create a small team atmosphere that that can nurture and keep as they move into the more athletic-focused\u00a0NCAA Division II.<\/p>\n<p>Freas\u00a0has quite the history of experience under his belt. He is a former Republic of South Africa Olympic coach and NCAA Division I coach for Arkansas, Hawaii and Louisiana State as well as SUNY-Potsdam and Allegheny College.\u00a0Coach Freas has produced amazing swimmers over and over again. He has coached\u00a019 Olympians and his swimmers have\u00a0set seven American records and three world records.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_130518\" style=\"width: 586px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/freas-sam.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-130518\" data-attachment-id=\"130518\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/naia-waves-farewell-to-oklahoma-baptist-university\/freas-sam\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/freas-sam.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"576,768\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;6.3&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS 7D&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;946686071&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;28&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;320&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.05&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"freas-sam\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;freas-sam&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Photo Courtesy: OBU Public Relations&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/freas-sam-576x500.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/freas-sam.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-130518\" src=\"http:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/freas-sam-576x500.jpg\" alt=\"freas-sam\" width=\"576\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-130518\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Courtesy: OBU Public Relations<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Though the OBU swim program did not start until the 2011-12 school year, they have had nothing but huge success at invitationals as well as NAIA Championships. They were able to win NAIAs from year one because there was no college swimming in Oklahoma, and there was no men&#8217;s swim teams within a 400-mile radius of Shawnee, OK.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;OBU never had a team, no lane lines, no starting blocks, no diving board,&#8221; Coach Freas said. &#8220;Within two months, we had equipment and around 70 swimmers and divers to compete the first year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Because of the lack of swimming schools in Oklahoma, OBU appealed to students in-state who wanted a collegiate swimming experience.<\/p>\n<p>The Christian mission of OBU also attracts several international swimmers as well, making for an interesting mix on the team. Former swimmers of Coach Freas also began referring people they knew. The men&#8217;s team surprised everyone when they won NAIAs the first year and broke five national records. The women were runners-up in 2012 with only eleven women on the team.<\/p>\n<p>For now OBU would like to continue to develop swimmers to be world-ranked, and provide an atmosphere where someone can swim, have fun and explore their potential. They fully intend to have a profound impact on NCAA DII swimming and in the words of Coach Freas, &#8220;I can&#8217;t wait.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Lileana Pearson, College Swimming World Intern This was Oklahoma Baptist University&#8217;s last season with the NAIA. Head coach at OBU, Dr. Sam Freas,\u00a0is grateful for his time in the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":125824,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,17],"tags":[11128,2576,185,251,38560,699,2362,142],"class_list":["post-130509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college","category-commentary","tag-allegheny-college","tag-arkansas","tag-coach","tag-ncaa","tag-oklahoma-baptist-university","tag-oklahoma-city","tag-sam-freas","tag-swimming"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\r\n<title>NAIA Waves Farewell to Oklahoma Baptist University<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"This was Oklahoma Baptist University&#039;s last season with NAIA. Coach Freas said they have had two years of developing swimmers and divers to be faster and stronger during the two years before they are able to compete in an NCAA championship. Luckily they will be able to swim in USA swimming competitions as well as other collegiate contests. Because they are now part of a conference they have quality time to orient the team and truly develop speed.\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/naia-waves-farewell-to-oklahoma-baptist-university\/\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"NAIA Waves Farewell to Oklahoma Baptist University\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This was Oklahoma Baptist University&#039;s last season with NAIA. Coach Freas said they have had two years of developing swimmers and divers to be faster and stronger during the two years before they are able to compete in an NCAA championship. Luckily they will be able to swim in USA swimming competitions as well as other collegiate contests. Because they are now part of a conference they have quality time to orient the team and truly develop speed.\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/naia-waves-farewell-to-oklahoma-baptist-university\/\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Swimming World\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SwimmingWorld\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-04-10T01:00:30+00:00\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2015-04-09T16:28:16+00:00\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/oklahoma-baptist-crop.jpg\" \/>\r\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1803\" \/>\r\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"946\" \/>\r\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Lileana Pearson\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@swimmingworld\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@swimmingworld\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Lileana Pearson\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\r\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/naia-waves-farewell-to-oklahoma-baptist-university\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/naia-waves-farewell-to-oklahoma-baptist-university\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Lileana Pearson\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/231f3f2b6a4da304e819a7b24c2098b8\"},\"headline\":\"NAIA Waves Farewell to Oklahoma Baptist University\",\"datePublished\":\"2015-04-10T01:00:30+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2015-04-09T16:28:16+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/naia-waves-farewell-to-oklahoma-baptist-university\/\"},\"wordCount\":450,\"commentCount\":2,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/naia-waves-farewell-to-oklahoma-baptist-university\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/oklahoma-baptist-crop.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Allegheny College\",\"Arkansas\",\"coach\",\"NCAA\",\"Oklahoma Baptist University\",\"Oklahoma City\",\"Sam Freas\",\"swimming\"],\"articleSection\":[\"College\",\"Commentary\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/naia-waves-farewell-to-oklahoma-baptist-university\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/naia-waves-farewell-to-oklahoma-baptist-university\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/naia-waves-farewell-to-oklahoma-baptist-university\/\",\"name\":\"NAIA Waves Farewell to Oklahoma Baptist University\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/naia-waves-farewell-to-oklahoma-baptist-university\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/naia-waves-farewell-to-oklahoma-baptist-university\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/oklahoma-baptist-crop.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2015-04-10T01:00:30+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2015-04-09T16:28:16+00:00\",\"description\":\"This was Oklahoma Baptist University's last season with NAIA. Coach Freas said they have had two years of developing swimmers and divers to be faster and stronger during the two years before they are able to compete in an NCAA championship. Luckily they will be able to swim in USA swimming competitions as well as other collegiate contests. Because they are now part of a conference they have quality time to orient the team and truly develop speed.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/naia-waves-farewell-to-oklahoma-baptist-university\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/naia-waves-farewell-to-oklahoma-baptist-university\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/naia-waves-farewell-to-oklahoma-baptist-university\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/oklahoma-baptist-crop.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/oklahoma-baptist-crop.jpg\",\"width\":1803,\"height\":946,\"caption\":\"Photo Courtesy: Oklahoma Baptist\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/naia-waves-farewell-to-oklahoma-baptist-university\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"NAIA Waves Farewell to Oklahoma Baptist University\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/\",\"name\":\"Swimming World\",\"description\":\"The Global Leader in Aquatic News\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Swimming World\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/SWorld_BLKBKG-1.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/SWorld_BLKBKG-1.jpg\",\"width\":1799,\"height\":900,\"caption\":\"Swimming World\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SwimmingWorld\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/swimmingworld\",\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/swimmingworldmag\/\",\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/SwimmingWorldSPI\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/231f3f2b6a4da304e819a7b24c2098b8\",\"name\":\"Lileana Pearson\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/24deb4ab6e73db018a815c1c8ed78a2c?s=96&d=blank&r=pg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/24deb4ab6e73db018a815c1c8ed78a2c?s=96&d=blank&r=pg\",\"caption\":\"Lileana Pearson\"},\"description\":\"Lileana Pearson is a freshman swimmer at Lindsey Wilson College at the NAIA level. She is currently a journalism major.\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/author\/lileana-pearson\/\"}]}<\/script>\r\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"NAIA Waves Farewell to Oklahoma Baptist University","description":"This was Oklahoma Baptist University's last season with NAIA. Coach Freas said they have had two years of developing swimmers and divers to be faster and stronger during the two years before they are able to compete in an NCAA championship. Luckily they will be able to swim in USA swimming competitions as well as other collegiate contests. Because they are now part of a conference they have quality time to orient the team and truly develop speed.","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:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/naia-waves-farewell-to-oklahoma-baptist-university\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"NAIA Waves Farewell to Oklahoma Baptist University","og_description":"This was Oklahoma Baptist University's last season with NAIA. Coach Freas said they have had two years of developing swimmers and divers to be faster and stronger during the two years before they are able to compete in an NCAA championship. Luckily they will be able to swim in USA swimming competitions as well as other collegiate contests. Because they are now part of a conference they have quality time to orient the team and truly develop speed.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/naia-waves-farewell-to-oklahoma-baptist-university\/","og_site_name":"Swimming World","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SwimmingWorld","article_published_time":"2015-04-10T01:00:30+00:00","article_modified_time":"2015-04-09T16:28:16+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1803,"height":946,"url":"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/oklahoma-baptist-crop.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Lileana Pearson","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@swimmingworld","twitter_site":"@swimmingworld","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Lileana Pearson","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/naia-waves-farewell-to-oklahoma-baptist-university\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/naia-waves-farewell-to-oklahoma-baptist-university\/"},"author":{"name":"Lileana Pearson","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/231f3f2b6a4da304e819a7b24c2098b8"},"headline":"NAIA Waves Farewell to Oklahoma Baptist University","datePublished":"2015-04-10T01:00:30+00:00","dateModified":"2015-04-09T16:28:16+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/naia-waves-farewell-to-oklahoma-baptist-university\/"},"wordCount":450,"commentCount":2,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/naia-waves-farewell-to-oklahoma-baptist-university\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/oklahoma-baptist-crop.jpg","keywords":["Allegheny College","Arkansas","coach","NCAA","Oklahoma Baptist University","Oklahoma City","Sam Freas","swimming"],"articleSection":["College","Commentary"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/naia-waves-farewell-to-oklahoma-baptist-university\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/naia-waves-farewell-to-oklahoma-baptist-university\/","url":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/naia-waves-farewell-to-oklahoma-baptist-university\/","name":"NAIA Waves Farewell to Oklahoma Baptist University","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/naia-waves-farewell-to-oklahoma-baptist-university\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/naia-waves-farewell-to-oklahoma-baptist-university\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/oklahoma-baptist-crop.jpg","datePublished":"2015-04-10T01:00:30+00:00","dateModified":"2015-04-09T16:28:16+00:00","description":"This was Oklahoma Baptist University's last season with NAIA. Coach Freas said they have had two years of developing swimmers and divers to be faster and stronger during the two years before they are able to compete in an NCAA championship. Luckily they will be able to swim in USA swimming competitions as well as other collegiate contests. Because they are now part of a conference they have quality time to orient the team and truly develop speed.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/naia-waves-farewell-to-oklahoma-baptist-university\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/naia-waves-farewell-to-oklahoma-baptist-university\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/naia-waves-farewell-to-oklahoma-baptist-university\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/oklahoma-baptist-crop.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/oklahoma-baptist-crop.jpg","width":1803,"height":946,"caption":"Photo Courtesy: Oklahoma Baptist"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/naia-waves-farewell-to-oklahoma-baptist-university\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"NAIA Waves Farewell to Oklahoma Baptist University"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/","name":"Swimming World","description":"The Global Leader in Aquatic News","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#organization","name":"Swimming World","url":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/SWorld_BLKBKG-1.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/SWorld_BLKBKG-1.jpg","width":1799,"height":900,"caption":"Swimming World"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SwimmingWorld","https:\/\/x.com\/swimmingworld","https:\/\/instagram.com\/swimmingworldmag\/","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/SwimmingWorldSPI"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/231f3f2b6a4da304e819a7b24c2098b8","name":"Lileana Pearson","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/24deb4ab6e73db018a815c1c8ed78a2c?s=96&d=blank&r=pg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/24deb4ab6e73db018a815c1c8ed78a2c?s=96&d=blank&r=pg","caption":"Lileana Pearson"},"description":"Lileana Pearson is a freshman swimmer at Lindsey Wilson College at the NAIA level. She is currently a journalism major.","url":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/author\/lileana-pearson\/"}]}},"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":"Photo Courtesy: Oklahoma Baptist","source_text":"","source_url":""},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/oklahoma-baptist-crop.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p56Jja-xWZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}