{"id":34114,"date":"2014-12-17T11:34:42","date_gmt":"2014-12-17T16:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=34114"},"modified":"2014-12-17T11:37:07","modified_gmt":"2014-12-17T16:37:07","slug":"lehigh-senior-high-school-welcomes-james-chaney-as-new-head-football-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2014\/12\/lehigh-senior-high-school-welcomes-james-chaney-as-new-head-football-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Lehigh Senior High School <br>Welcomes James Chaney As New Head Football Coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6862\" title=\"Lehigh-Senior-High-School-Logo\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Lehigh-Senior-High-School-Logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"135\" height=\"135\" \/>Lehigh Senior High School (LSHS)\u00a0has selected a familiar face from the Lee County community to serve as its next head football coach.\u00a0\u00a0James Chaney, a\u00a0North Fort Myers High School\u00a0graduate, will take over the reins of the LSHS program; ushering in a new era of Lightning football.<\/p>\n<p>After graduating from North Fort Myers High School, Coach Chaney attended Florida State University, where he earned his degree in Criminology and played on the defensive line for the Seminoles under Coach Bobby Bowden. Coach Chaney has been very involved in the community in youth and high school sports for the past 9 years.<\/p>\n<p>Of welcoming Coach Chaney to the Lightning program,\u00a0Principal Jackie Corey\u00a0shared, \u201cWe had over 75 applicants (and) scheduled 16 interviews.\u00a0 We interviewed applicants from California, Ohio, Louisiana, the NFL and Lee County.\u00a0 After searching and interviewing for over a month, we found the best candidate in our own backyard.\u00a0 James Chaney has deep roots in the community and is very well respected.\u00a0 We feel he will be a positive mentor and has the leadership ability to take our program in the right direction.\u00a0 We are excited about him joining the Lehigh family as a teacher and coach.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lehigh Senior High School (LSHS)\u00a0has selected a familiar face from the Lee County community to serve as its next head football coach.\u00a0\u00a0James Chaney, a\u00a0North Fort Myers High School\u00a0graduate, will take&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34114"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}