{"id":34457,"date":"2025-03-04T11:50:53","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T11:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/?p=34457"},"modified":"2025-03-05T08:49:49","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T08:49:49","slug":"coach-scores-100th-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/?p=34457","title":{"rendered":"Coach Scores 100th Victory!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-transform: uppercase;\">Photography Provided by Varsity Vantage<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34461\" src=\"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Copy-of-WEB-20250202-WHS-Boys-BBall-v-Linden-DH00939-ENR.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Copy-of-WEB-20250202-WHS-Boys-BBall-v-Linden-DH00939-ENR.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Copy-of-WEB-20250202-WHS-Boys-BBall-v-Linden-DH00939-ENR-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34462\" src=\"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Copy-of-WEB-20250202-WHS-Boys-BBall-v-Linden-DH02179-ENR.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Copy-of-WEB-20250202-WHS-Boys-BBall-v-Linden-DH02179-ENR.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Copy-of-WEB-20250202-WHS-Boys-BBall-v-Linden-DH02179-ENR-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34463\" src=\"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Copy-of-WEB-20250202-WHS-Boys-BBall-v-Linden-DH01013-ENR.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Copy-of-WEB-20250202-WHS-Boys-BBall-v-Linden-DH01013-ENR.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Copy-of-WEB-20250202-WHS-Boys-BBall-v-Linden-DH01013-ENR-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34464\" src=\"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Copy-of-WEB-20250202-WHS-Boys-BBall-v-Linden-DH02241-ENR.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Copy-of-WEB-20250202-WHS-Boys-BBall-v-Linden-DH02241-ENR.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Copy-of-WEB-20250202-WHS-Boys-BBall-v-Linden-DH02241-ENR-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On February 1, 2025, Westfield High School&#8217;s head boys basketball coach, Jim McKeon, achieved a significant milestone by securing his 100th career victory with a 51-47 win over Linden.<\/p>\n<p>Reflecting on the achievement, Coach McKeon remarked, &#8220;It\u2019s really nice to see everyone cheering and supporting me, but it\u2019s just another game. I want more than 100 wins; I want the kids to be remembered forever in the banner, and that\u2019s the goal for everything.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This victory underscores the team&#8217;s resilience and the effective leadership of Coach McKeon, who has been instrumental in building a competitive program since his tenure began in 2018.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34465\" src=\"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Copy-of-WEB-20250202-WHS-Boys-BBall-v-Linden-DH01098-ENR.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Copy-of-WEB-20250202-WHS-Boys-BBall-v-Linden-DH01098-ENR.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Copy-of-WEB-20250202-WHS-Boys-BBall-v-Linden-DH01098-ENR-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34466\" src=\"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Copy-of-WEB-20250202-WHS-Boys-BBall-v-Linden-DH01772-ENR.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Copy-of-WEB-20250202-WHS-Boys-BBall-v-Linden-DH01772-ENR.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Copy-of-WEB-20250202-WHS-Boys-BBall-v-Linden-DH01772-ENR-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photography Provided by Varsity Vantage On February 1, 2025, Westfield High School&#8217;s head boys basketball coach, Jim McKeon, achieved a significant milestone by securing his 100th career victory with a 51-47 win over Linden. Reflecting on the achievement, Coach McKeon remarked, &#8220;It\u2019s really nice to see everyone cheering and supporting me, but it\u2019s just another [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":34459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,167,151],"tags":[],"post_flags":[],"class_list":["post-34457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cover-feature","category-local-sports","category-westfield-local"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34457"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34511,"href":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34457\/revisions\/34511"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34457"},{"taxonomy":"post_flag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fpost_flags&post=34457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}