{"id":7038,"date":"2022-03-22T12:40:58","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T17:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/?p=7038"},"modified":"2022-03-22T12:40:58","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T17:40:58","slug":"welcoming-coach-gates-to-the-tiger-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/2022\/03\/22\/welcoming-coach-gates-to-the-tiger-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcoming Coach Gates to the Tiger family"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/Gates-and-Choi-scaled-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Gates-and-Choi-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"A photo of President Choi, Curator Jeffrey Layman, Coach Dennis Gates and Director of Athletics Desiree Reed-Francois.\" class=\"wp-image-7059\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">President Choi, Curator Jeffrey Layman, Coach Dennis Gates and Director of Athletics Desiree Reed-Francois at today&#8217;s press conference (photo courtesy of Mizzou Athletics).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This morning, the UM System Board of Curators <a href=\"https:\/\/mutigers.com\/news\/2022\/3\/22\/mens-basketball-dennis-gates-named-mizzou-mens-basketball-head-coach.aspx?fbclid=IwAR2A4EDP6H7w7bQZh-IDTEe8GulTlpMmY9JBfy8YYIYJ1aOveyJj1LLsUb8\">approved Dennis Gates<\/a> as the 20th head coach of our Mizzou Men\u2019s Basketball team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Coach Gates\u2019 track record of success at Cleveland State proves he has the tenacity to drive a winning team while also supporting his players. Our student-athletes, campus community and Tiger fans everywhere are ready for his bold leadership on and off the court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AD Reed-Francois has set an expectation of excellence for all of Mizzou Athletics. I know Coach Gates will help us further usher in a results-driven, winning culture and take Mizzou basketball to the next level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Welcome, Coach Gates. We\u2019re glad to have you as a Tiger. M-I-Z!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014 Mun<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, the UM System Board of Curators approved Dennis Gates as the 20th head coach of our Mizzou Men\u2019s Basketball team. Coach Gates\u2019 track record of success at Cleveland State proves he has the tenacity to drive a winning team while also supporting his players. Our student-athletes, campus community and Tiger fans everywhere are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}