{"id":160,"date":"2018-03-28T15:23:16","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T15:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jdrampage.org\/?p=160"},"modified":"2019-04-08T12:39:44","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T12:39:44","slug":"2018-3-28-football-and-wrestling-star-jake-the-snake-wright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jdrampage.org\/2018-3-28-football-and-wrestling-star-jake-the-snake-wright\/","title":{"rendered":"Football and Wrestling Star: Jake \u2018The Snake\u2019 Wright"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mia Potamianos, Jamie Boeheim, Scottie\/B.T. O\u2019Bryan <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Assistant RamFeed Producers, Editor of Promotion <\/strong><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jdrampage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Blog__FAY3331-1.jpg\" alt=\" Courtesy of Roger Hagan \"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtesy of Roger Hagan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Senior wrestling and football captain Jake Wright was nicknamed \u201cThe Snake\u201d by his teammates back in middle school. \u201cWe call Jake \u2018The Snake\u2019 because he\u2019s a predator on the field,\u201d says fellow football captain, senior Ben Fleet; \u201che hunts down the opposing players and strikes to kill, just like a snake.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Wright is a star football player who had a very successful senior season in which he was named to the All-CNY first team and fourth team all-state. Also, in this past season, Wright broke the J-DHS school record for the number of tackles in a single game when he recorded 30 tackles in a win against East Syracuse-Minoa this season. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Wright has never been benched for an injury, despite starting on the Varsity Football team since freshman year. \u201cHe hasn\u2019t missed a single down of play, which shows how tough (Jake) is,\u201d says Varsity Football Head Coach Eric Ormond. Coach Ormond calls Wright a \u201cphysical leader\u201d with \u201crare athletic abilities.\u201d \u201cHe\u2019s the guy on the team that everybody knows can go out there and make plays when you need them,\u201d says coach Ormond. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Wright had a strong finish to a dominate wrestling career at J-DHS, with an overall record of 23-6. \u201cJake is a savage,\u201d says junior football and wrestling teammate, and life-long friend Adam Honis, \u201che is one of the best wrestlers in the state and a great guy overall.\u201d The Christian Brothers Academy\/J-D\/(add schools) Wrestling team came in second to Fulton in sectionals. Individually, Wright also finished second in sectionals. Despite not accomplishing his goal of placing into states, he is happy in what he says was a \u201cgood season overall.\u201d \u201cLooking back at it, there was a lot of great memories over the years,\u201d says Wright, \u201cI am going to miss all my teammates, coaches, and friends.\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Wright\u2019s future plans are to attend Syracuse University where he intends to walk-on to the football team.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mia Potamianos, Jamie Boeheim, Scottie\/B.T. O\u2019Bryan Assistant RamFeed Producers, Editor of Promotion Senior wrestling and football captain Jake Wright was nicknamed \u201cThe Snake\u201d by his teammates back in middle school. \u201cWe call Jake \u2018The Snake\u2019 because he\u2019s a predator on the field,\u201d says fellow football captain, senior Ben Fleet; \u201che hunts down the opposing players [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdrampage.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdrampage.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdrampage.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdrampage.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdrampage.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jdrampage.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdrampage.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdrampage.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdrampage.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}