{"id":3427,"date":"2025-05-05T22:46:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T22:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/3427\/"},"modified":"2025-05-05T22:46:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T22:46:08","slug":"prep-athlete-of-the-week-jillian-olsen-of-mankato-west-local-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/3427\/","title":{"rendered":"Prep Athlete of the Week, Jillian Olsen of Mankato West | Local Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senior Jillian Olsen, the center fielder for the Mankato West softball team, has been a key player for the Scarlets again this spring.<\/p>\n<p>She has thrived as West&#8217;s leadoff hitter with 17 runs scored and seven stolen bases so far this season.\u00a0Olsen has made several big plays in the outfield, including a key diving catch in a win over No. 1 Mankato East last week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Olsen is a four-year starter, two-year captain and earned All Big-Nine Conference honorable mention last season.<\/p>\n<p>She also participates in band, jazz band and basketball and won the Triple A award for 2024-2025 school year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Senior Jillian Olsen, the center fielder for the Mankato West softball team, has been a key player for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3428,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2288],"tags":[2315,2309,2336,5,2314,2313,2340,2333,19,2310,2328,2304,2318,2308,4,2305,2303,2307,2062,2342,2343,185,2338,2311,2312],"class_list":{"0":"post-3427","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb-postseason","8":"tag-athletic-sports","9":"tag-ball-and-bat-games","10":"tag-ball-games","11":"tag-baseball","12":"tag-baseball-finals","13":"tag-baseball-playoffs-and-champions","14":"tag-baseball-positions","15":"tag-grass-field-surfaces","16":"tag-major-league-baseball","17":"tag-major-league-baseball-competitions","18":"tag-major-league-baseball-playoffs","19":"tag-major-league-baseball-postseason","20":"tag-major-league-baseball-seasons","21":"tag-major-league-baseball-teams","22":"tag-mlb","23":"tag-mlb-playoffs","24":"tag-mlb-postseason","25":"tag-outdoor-sports","26":"tag-outfielder","27":"tag-paow","28":"tag-positions-team-sports","29":"tag-sports","30":"tag-team-activities","31":"tag-team-sports","32":"tag-turf-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}