{"id":117373,"date":"2017-10-08T23:14:32","date_gmt":"2017-10-08T15:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=117373"},"modified":"2017-10-08T23:14:32","modified_gmt":"2017-10-08T15:14:32","slug":"iium-mustang-rowing-team-still-in-high-spirit-to-compete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=117373","title":{"rendered":"IIUM Mustang Rowing Team still in high spirit to compete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Yasmin Latif<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>GOMBAK, 8 October 2017: No sign of giving up for IIUM Mustang Rowing Team despite not getting a medal in the 11th Varsity Boat Race (VBR) 2017 held at Bukit Merah Resort, Perak, from 3 until 7 October. Instead, the team is in high spirit to keep looking for ways to improve.<\/p>\n<p>Its captain, Ahmed Wafi Abdul Rashid said, \u0153Obviously we&#8217;ll need to train harder. We won&#8217;t shy away from this. We&#8217;ll analyse it and come back stronger.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>An accident that occurred during the race affected the timing advantage that the team had in the Men&#8217;s single category and due to the accident, Men&#8217;s single category was excluded from the race.<\/p>\n<p>However, IIUM Women&#8217;s single category, represented by Norhidayah Ahmad Zariff, a student of Kulliyyah of Language and Management (KLM), managed to get to the final race.<\/p>\n<p>Ahmed Wafi said that the race this year seemed tougher as it was a new race course for a lot of Rowing Team members.<\/p>\n<p>The 11th edition of the Varsity Boat Race Championship was organised by the Ministry of Higher Education and conducted by Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM).<\/p>\n<p>UTM Pro-Vice Chancellor, Prof. Dr. Durrishah Idrus, gave away the prizes to the winners at the prize presentation ceremony.***<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Yasmin Latif GOMBAK, 8 October 2017: No sign of giving up for IIUM Mustang Rowing Team despite not getting a medal in the 11th&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":117374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3,7],"tags":[],"nelio_content":{"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"followers":[],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/WhatsApp-Image-2017-10-08-at-6.46.25-PM-1.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117373"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117373"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117390,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117373\/revisions\/117390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/117374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}