{"id":182932,"date":"2022-07-26T08:16:27","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T12:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=182932"},"modified":"2022-07-26T14:48:30","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T18:48:30","slug":"hansel-emmanuel-gets-to-play-in-the-ncaa-trailblazing-new-dominican-basketball-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2022\/07\/26\/hansel-emmanuel-gets-to-play-in-the-ncaa-trailblazing-new-dominican-basketball-player\/","title":{"rendered":"Hansel Emmanuel plays in the NCAA; trailblazing new Dominican basketball player"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Hansel-Emmanuel-N-Digital-1024x659.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-183011\" width=\"600\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>He\u2019s a spectacle to watch. Dominican Hansel Emmanuel got a scholarship to play at the Life Christian Academy in Kissimee, Florida and took the team to the championship win. He then had Division-I offers from Memphis, Tennessee State and Bethune-Cookman to play in the NCAA&#8217;s Drew League. He selected Northwestern State in Natchitoches, Louisiana. Initial reports reveal he is already impressing fans as he takes to the court in the Drew League championship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nothing out of the usual for a basketball player, except\u2026. Emmanuel is a one-armed basketball player. He lost his left arm when a wall crushed it when he was six. He learned to play basketball with one arm and slips through the air with the grace of a gazelle and the moves of a snake. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Follow his story:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/basketnews.com\/news-175592-one-armed-hansel-enmanuel-impresses-in-his-drew-league-debut.html\">Basket News<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aoGlTUcsXjU\">ESPN <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_cpctRERNqA\">GET UP <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=M-zoI7FAdE0\">Jalen &amp; Jacoby <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/college\/2022\/07\/24\/hansel-enmanuel-one-armed-basketball-player-announces-college-commitment\">Sports Illustrated<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outkick.com\/hansel-enmanuel-commits-to-northwestern-state\/\">Outkick <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/n.com.do\/2022\/07\/25\/el-dominicano-hansel-emmanuel-y-su-llegada-a-la-ncaa\/\">N Digital <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>26 July 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He\u2019s a spectacle to watch. Dominican Hansel Emmanuel got a scholarship to play at the Life Christian Academy in Kissimee, Florida and took the team to the championship win. He then had Division-I offers from Memphis, Tennessee State and Bethune-Cookman to play in the NCAA&#8217;s Drew League. He selected Northwestern State in Natchitoches, Louisiana. Initial &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2022\/07\/26\/hansel-emmanuel-gets-to-play-in-the-ncaa-trailblazing-new-dominican-basketball-player\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[293,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182932"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182932"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183013,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182932\/revisions\/183013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}