{"id":5475,"date":"2021-04-07T18:37:47","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T22:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5475"},"modified":"2021-04-07T18:37:47","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T22:37:47","slug":"liberty-university-extends-coach-ritchie-mckay-through-the-2028-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5475","title":{"rendered":"Liberty University extends coach Ritchie McKay through the 2028 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"display: block\"><center><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-ns\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/3\/33\/Ritchie_McKay_2014.jpg\" \/><\/center><\/div>\n<p>Liberty University announced that it&rsquo;s extended the contract of its head men&rsquo;s basketball coach through the 2028 season.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I am very honored and extremely excited by the commitment that our President Prevo, Ian McCaw and our administration has made to our program,&rdquo; McKay said. &ldquo;Many are responsible for the upward trajectory that we&rsquo;ve experienced, but especially our student-athletes that continue to pursue excellence in their pursuits. That being said, our hope is to continue to improve and compete at the highest level.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>McKay and the Flames have posted five straight 20-win seasons for the first time in school history.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3P-Y8rERFs4\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsls.com\/sports\/2021\/04\/07\/liberty-university-extends-mens-basketball-coach-ritchie-mckay-through-the-2028-season\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">READ MORE &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liberty University announced that it&rsquo;s extended the contract of its head men&rsquo;s basketball coach through the 2028 season.<\/p>\n<p>&#038;ldq&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5475\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Liberty University extends coach Ritchie McKay through the 2028 season<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[189],"class_list":["post-5475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-liberty-university-extends-coach-ritchie-mckay-through-the-season","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pJcR0-1qj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5476,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5475\/revisions\/5476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}