{"id":7756,"date":"2014-08-08T16:03:26","date_gmt":"2014-08-08T21:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.barclaycollege.edu\/?p=7756"},"modified":"2016-08-06T16:35:40","modified_gmt":"2016-08-06T21:35:40","slug":"another-tx-recruit-commits-to-mens-basketball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bears.barclay.college\/another-tx-recruit-commits-to-mens-basketball\/","title":{"rendered":"Another TX Recruit Commits to Men&#8217;s Basketball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another Paris, TX recruit in Jaqualion &#8220;Jay&#8221; Milton has committed to transfer to Barclay College for the Fall semester. Milton spent the 2013-14 year at a Tyler Junior College as a red-shirt and comes to Barclay with four years of eligibility.<\/p>\n<p>Milton graduated from 3A Paris High School in 2013 where he was instrumental in leading the Wildcats to back-to-back Area Runner-Ups. As a junior the Wildcats went 26-7 while Milton picked up 2nd Team All-District 13 and All Red River County honors. His senior year he was 1st Team All-District and 1st Team All Red River County in leading the Wildcats to a 22-9 record. His defensive prowess and his 12 points, 8 rebounds, and 6 assists paved the way for him participating in the Element of Champion All-Star Game in Dallas, TX and the Scouts Focus All-American Game in Charlottsville, VA.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To get someone of Jay&#8217;s character and athletic ability this late in the recruiting game is extremely fortunate,&#8221; said Head Coach Royce Bryan. &#8220;We hope to play a part in continuing to sharpen Jay athletically, academically and spiritually while he is here at Barclay.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He is the son of Tammie Wright and Vernon Milton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another Paris, TX recruit in Jaqualion &#8220;Jay&#8221; Milton has committed to transfer to Barclay College for the Fall semester. Milton spent the 2013-14 year at a Tyler Junior College as a red-shirt and comes to Barclay with four years of eligibility. Milton graduated from 3A Paris High School in 2013 where he was instrumental in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7757,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"better_featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bears.barclay.college\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7756"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bears.barclay.college\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bears.barclay.college\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bears.barclay.college\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bears.barclay.college\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bears.barclay.college\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bears.barclay.college\/api\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bears.barclay.college\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bears.barclay.college\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bears.barclay.college\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}