{"id":4099,"date":"2016-03-17T19:58:07","date_gmt":"2016-03-17T23:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essportscouncil.org\/liberty-tour\/?p=4099"},"modified":"2016-03-17T20:46:37","modified_gmt":"2016-03-18T00:46:37","slug":"liberty_tour_2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/essportscouncil.org\/liberty-tour\/post\/liberty_tour_2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberty Tour 2016: An Olympic Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/essportscouncil.org\/liberty-tour\/files\/2016\/03\/Empire-State-Liberty-Tour-2016.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4100\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4100\" src=\"http:\/\/essportscouncil.org\/liberty-tour\/files\/2016\/03\/Empire-State-Liberty-Tour-2016-600x526.jpg\" alt=\"Empire State Liberty Tour 2016\" width=\"600\" height=\"526\" srcset=\"http:\/\/essportscouncil.org\/liberty-tour\/files\/2016\/03\/Empire-State-Liberty-Tour-2016-600x526.jpg 600w, http:\/\/essportscouncil.org\/liberty-tour\/files\/2016\/03\/Empire-State-Liberty-Tour-2016-400x351.jpg 400w, http:\/\/essportscouncil.org\/liberty-tour\/files\/2016\/03\/Empire-State-Liberty-Tour-2016.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/> <\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0I hope that this message finds each of you enjoying this incredibly warm weather in mid March!\u00a0 If I am correct, this is the least amount of snow that we have received in NY State history, at least in the Capital District Region!\u00a0 We are all too happy about that, and we hope that it is the new normal!<\/p>\n<p>Since the weather has been so Spring like, we thought it might be best to send along to you the <strong>2016 Liberty Tour Track &amp; Field Series Schedule<\/strong>.\u00a0 There are so many <strong>EXCITING<\/strong> things happening this year that we almost can&#8217;t wait until the <strong>Patriot&#8217;s Invitational<\/strong> arrives.\u00a0 There are New Track &amp; Field Clubs, New Awards for the Championship Events, New Hosting Venues, and it is an Olympic Year!\u00a0 We have even joined forces with the USOC (United States Olympic Committee)!\u00a0 We will provide more of that in a later message, though.<\/p>\n<p>As ALWAYS the <strong>Liberty Tour Track &amp; Field Series<\/strong>\u00a0kicks off on Memorial Day Weekend with the <strong>Patriot&#8217;s Invitational<\/strong>, and concludes with the Track &amp; Field competition at the <strong>Liberty Games<\/strong>, now the New State Games.\u00a0 We will be offering Combined Events at two (2) meets again this year, the <strong>Adirondack Championships<\/strong> and the <strong>Liberty Games<\/strong>. \u00a0In addition,<strong> Liberty Sports Gear<\/strong> has once again offered to give away nearly $1,500 in Gift Certificates to the top four (4) Teams at the conclusion of the <strong>Liberty Tour Track &amp; Field Series<\/strong>!\u00a0 These can be used toward Equipment, Track &amp; Field Shoes, Uniforms, and More!<\/p>\n<p>Online Registration is ready for each of the<strong> Liberty Tour<\/strong> meets, and there are discounts for Team Registration.\u00a0 We look forward to seeing everyone soon!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Patriot&#8217;s Invitational &#8211; Saturday, May 28th (10:00 am)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Constitution Classic &#8211; Sunday, June 5th (2:00 pm)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">President&#8217;s Open &#8211; Saturday, June 11th (10:00 am)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Adirondack Championships:<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Combined Events &#8211; Friday, June 17th (5:00 pm)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Full Meet &#8211; Saturday, June 18th (10:00 am)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Independence Invitational &#8211; Saturday, July 2nd (4:00 pm)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Liberty Games:<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Combined Events &#8211; Friday, July 15th (5:00 pm)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Full Meet &#8211; Saturday, July 16th (10:00 am)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0I hope that this message finds each of you enjoying this incredibly warm weather in mid March!\u00a0 If I am correct, this is the least amount of snow that we have received in NY State history, at least in the Capital District Region!\u00a0 We are all too happy about that, and we hope [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4100,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/essportscouncil.org\/liberty-tour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4099"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/essportscouncil.org\/liberty-tour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/essportscouncil.org\/liberty-tour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/essportscouncil.org\/liberty-tour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/essportscouncil.org\/liberty-tour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4099"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/essportscouncil.org\/liberty-tour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4105,"href":"http:\/\/essportscouncil.org\/liberty-tour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4099\/revisions\/4105"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/essportscouncil.org\/liberty-tour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/essportscouncil.org\/liberty-tour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/essportscouncil.org\/liberty-tour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/essportscouncil.org\/liberty-tour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}