{"id":26930,"date":"2012-12-13T16:49:03","date_gmt":"2012-12-14T00:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/198.57.196.122\/~gdatwofo\/theavtimes\/?p=26930"},"modified":"2013-03-01T20:33:13","modified_gmt":"2013-03-02T04:33:13","slug":"jibraun-asaad-is-the-mayors-athlete-of-the-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2012\/12\/13\/jibraun-asaad-is-the-mayors-athlete-of-the-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Jibraun Asaad is the Mayor\u2019s Athlete of the Month"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mayor R. Rex Parris and Jibraun Asaad<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

LANCASTER \u2013 During Tuesday\u2019s City Council meeting, Jibraun Asaad<\/strong>, a senior at Quartz Hill High School, was honored with the Mayor\u2019s Athlete of the Month Award for December.<\/p>\n

Asaad, the football team captain at Quartz Hill and starting right-fielder for the baseball team, was praised by the Mayor for both his athletic achievements and those in the classroom.<\/p>\n

\u201cJibraun demonstrates that he is the embodiment of a scholar-athlete,\u201d Mayor R. Rex Parris said. \u201cHis prowess on the field, his stellar academic success, and his consistent willingness to serve his peers make him worthy of recognition.\u201d<\/p>\n

Assad led his varsity high school football team to the playoffs for two consecutive years, steering his team to a second place finish in the Golden League.<\/p>\n

In doing so, Asaad has passed for 529 yards and four touchdowns as quarterback. In baseball his batting average has been a consistent .300 with an on base percentage of .462 and 13 runs.<\/p>\n

Assad is active in tutoring his classmates, and assists with preparing them for upcoming SAT and ACT tests. He also volunteers with the YMCA, coaching youth basketball, refereeing and scorekeeping.<\/p>\n

Asaad holds a 4.6 GPA, and is the valedictorian of his high school class.<\/p>\n

While Cornell, Harvard, San Jose State, and UC San Diego have all expressed interest in Asaad, he plans to study Mechanical Engineering at the United States Air Force Academy.<\/p>\n

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LANCASTER \u2013 During Tuesday\u2019s City Council meeting, Jibraun Asaad, a senior at Quartz Hill High School, was honored with the Mayor\u2019s Athlete of the Month Award for December. Asaad, the football team captain at Quartz Hill and starting right-fielder for the baseball team, was praised by the Mayor for both his athletic achievements and those […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26931,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26930"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}