{"id":15363,"date":"2018-02-07T09:00:05","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T17:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=15363"},"modified":"2018-02-21T11:21:11","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T19:21:11","slug":"camosun-student-hits-career-highs-in-basketball-with-the-chargers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2018\/02\/07\/camosun-student-hits-career-highs-in-basketball-with-the-chargers\/","title":{"rendered":"Camosun student hits career highs in basketball with the Chargers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Camosun Chargers men\u2019s basketball student athlete Dylan Marsden recently had a commanding 32-point weekend, hitting his own personal career high. Marsden was also recently nominated for PACWEST Athlete of the Week; he\u2019s proud of what he\u2019s accomplished, both for himself and for Camosun.<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean, obviously, it\u2019s every athlete\u2019s dream to be nominated for things like this,\u201d says Marsden, who is in his fourth year of the Sports Fitness and Leadership program, specializing in sport management. \u201cYou want your personal goals, but something like that makes me happy, and I\u2019m honestly just happy we picked up two big wins last weekend. You know, classmates will come up and talk to me about the game or whatever, and it\u2019s a lot of fun. Camosun is a more tight-knit school than a lot of people think, and it\u2019s just so much fun playing for Camosun.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Camosun Chargers men\u2019s basketball student athlete Dylan Marsden in action (photo by Camosun Chargers Athletics).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Marsden didn\u2019t want to stop at being just an athlete on the team, though\u2014he\u2019s also been active in various aspects of Chargers promotion. He says that helping to spread awareness of the team is one of his off-court goals.<\/p>\n

\u201cI try to be as involved in the Chargers as possible. I think the Chargers have a really good platform to bring students together through sport, so that\u2019s been one of my goals with all this,\u201d says Marsden. \u201cI\u2019ve been doing stuff like getting around in person and as a team, managing our Instagram account, and doing some behind-the-scenes things as well. We try to be as involved with students as we can; one of our biggest projects last year was to start this thing called \u2018the blue revolution,\u2019 which is basically a man in a blue morph suit that\u2019s kind of like a mascot, but used to complement the mascot. A lot of our promotion is on Instagram; we call the morph suit man \u2018Blue,\u2019 and he has an account too.\u201d<\/p>\n

Marsden says that playing college basketball wasn\u2019t always in the cards for him. He actually gave up on playing sports for a while after he finished high school.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was involved with sports growing up and throughout high school, but after school I kind of stopped playing. I tried recreational leagues and it wasn\u2019t the same competitive nature that I wanted. I switched sports a few times and wanting that competition drove me back to playing, and ultimately I ended up at Camosun,\u201d says Marsden. \u201cLike [Chargers men\u2019s basketball head coach Scot Cuachon] always says, \u2018Wherever you go, you want to leave the previous place in a better situation than when you arrived.\u2019 When I came here, I wasn\u2019t sure what I wanted. I was never a superstar player or anything but I knew that I could help the program, and that\u2019s what drives me to keep going\u2014the want to leave the program in a better place.\u201d<\/p>\n

Marsden says that although he\u2019ll be leaving the team one day, he wants to stick around Camosun if he can. For him, being involved with the Chargers even after he\u2019s finished school would be a dream come true. He says that Camosun has been a big turning point in his life and he wants to continue to give back.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to be involved in the sports industry for sure, and I would truly love to be involved with the Chargers athletics and make a job out of my passion for the program. It\u2019s something I\u2019ve always thought about\u2014if I could work in a staff position in the athletics department, that would be pretty cool,\u201d says Marsden. \u201cIf not, though, somewhere in sports, for sure. I love Victoria and my goal is to work local with a sports team, but working with the Chargers would be great\u2014they have honestly changed my life, and I\u2019m so thankful I came back to school.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Camosun Chargers men\u2019s basketball student athlete Dylan Marsden recently had a commanding 32-point weekend, hitting his own personal career high. Marsden was also recently nominated for PACWEST Athlete of the Week; he\u2019s proud of what he\u2019s accomplished, both for himself and for Camosun. \u201cI mean, obviously, it\u2019s every athlete\u2019s dream to be nominated for things […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,206],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus","category-february-7-2018"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15363"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15366,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15363\/revisions\/15366"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}