{"id":112,"date":"2017-02-01T23:28:45","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T23:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.section2basketball.com\/myownwords\/?p=112"},"modified":"2017-08-15T19:17:16","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T19:17:16","slug":"connor-farrington-saratoga-central-catholic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.section2basketball.com\/myownwords\/2017\/02\/01\/connor-farrington-saratoga-central-catholic\/","title":{"rendered":"Connor Farrington, Saratoga Central Catholic"},"content":{"rendered":"

PETER R. BARBER\/DAILY GAZETTE PHOTOGRAPHER Connor Farrington of Saratoga Catholic takes a shot in front of Zach Reese of Fort Plain Wednesday, January 13, 2016.<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Name:<\/td>\nConnor Farrington<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
School:<\/td>\nSaratoga Central Catholic<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Year in School:<\/td>\nSenior<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Height:<\/td>\n5’11<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Position:<\/td>\nShooting Guard<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Current season stats or team record:<\/td>\n6-9 record 21 ppg<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Basketball Awards or Achievements:<\/td>\n2016 Section 2 Class C Sectionals MVP
\n1st team WAC North all-team
\nSchool record for 3s in game, 9.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Other sports you play in High School:<\/td>\nSoccer, baseball<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Favorite moment from non-basketball sport:<\/td>\nPlaying in Joe Bruno Stadium for Section 2 Class B semifinals vs Schalmont.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Favorite class in school other than lunch or gym?<\/td>\nForensics<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
What are your plans after High School?<\/td>\nBecome a police officer and eventually join the FBI.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Do you plan on playing sports in college? If yes, which sport and have you committed yet to a school?<\/td>\nBaseball and have not committed but looking at St Michaels and Saint Rose.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
What are your strengths as a player?<\/td>\nHaving a positive mentality, giving my all 32 minutes a game.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
What skills do you need to improve on as a player?<\/td>\nUsing my right hand<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
What improvements have you made recently in practice\/training?<\/td>\nRebounding<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Favorite moment on the court:<\/td>\nWinning the 2016 Section 2 Class C Sectionals<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Toughest moment on the court:<\/td>\nLosing in the Regional playoffs in Potsdam losing by 4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
What have you learned about team work?<\/td>\nThat it doesn’t matter how good a team is, if you all work together and try your
\nhardest that you can be a good team and be successful.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Name a couple of people that have been role models over the years and what have you learned from them?<\/td>\nGrandma, lost her battle to lung cancer. She was the strongest person I’ve ever met.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
What words of advice or encouragement would you share with younger athletes?<\/td>\nAlways try your hardest. The harder you work, the more successful you’ll be in the long run.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Do you have a saying or motto that you live your life by or maybe a team slogan?<\/td>\nDo your job- Bill Belichick<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
What is your favorite team activity, pregame or postgame,that you share with your teammates?<\/td>\nListen to music in the locker room with them.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
How crazy are your school\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fans?<\/td>\nNot too crazy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
What team do you want to beat to win the Sectional Final or other tournaments this year?<\/td>\nStillwater<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
What is a typical day like for you?<\/td>\nGet up eat breakfast, go to school, go to practice, go home shoot a little more, eat
\ndinner, do homework and go to bed.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
What are your interests outside of sports?<\/td>\nPatriots, Red Sox and criminal and police shows<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Favorite food:<\/td>\nTacos<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Favorite local restaurant?<\/td>\nMoes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Favorite song\/artist:<\/td>\nNight Crawler- Travis Scott<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
What\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s your favorite old school jam?<\/td>\nBeastie Boys<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
What are your favorite movies or books?<\/td>\nFavorite movie is Rudy favorite book is the Hunger Games<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Who is your favorite athlete (Any sport)?<\/td>\nTom Brady<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Favorite NCAA, NBA or WNBA team:<\/td>\nSan Antonio Spurs<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
If you could have dinner with anyone who would it be?<\/td>\nTom Brady<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Anything else that you’d like to share about yourself, your family or team:<\/td>\nMy basketball team is the hardest working group of kids I’ve worked with. We all have a good time at practice work hard and play very good as a team. Going to miss all of the next
\nyear.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Name: Connor Farrington School: Saratoga Central Catholic Year in School: Senior Height: 5’11 Position: Shooting Guard Current season stats or team record: 6-9 record 21 ppg Basketball Awards or Achievements: 2016 Section 2 Class C Sectionals MVP 1st team WAC North all-team School record for 3s in game, 9. Other sports you play in High […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":115,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.section2basketball.com\/myownwords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.section2basketball.com\/myownwords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.section2basketball.com\/myownwords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.section2basketball.com\/myownwords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.section2basketball.com\/myownwords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.section2basketball.com\/myownwords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.section2basketball.com\/myownwords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions\/116"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.section2basketball.com\/myownwords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.section2basketball.com\/myownwords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.section2basketball.com\/myownwords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.section2basketball.com\/myownwords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}