{"id":69227,"date":"2016-05-29T18:02:26","date_gmt":"2016-05-29T22:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=69227"},"modified":"2016-05-29T00:07:39","modified_gmt":"2016-05-29T04:07:39","slug":"adirondack-bank-sponsors-american-mixed-martial-artist-and-wrestler-matt-hamill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=69227","title":{"rendered":"Adirondack Bank sponsors American mixed martial artist and wrestler Matt Hamill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?attachment_id=69228\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-69228\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-69228\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/hamill_usa_flag-219x300.jpg?resize=219%2C300\" alt=\"hamill_usa_flag\" width=\"219\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/hamill_usa_flag.jpg?resize=219%2C300&amp;ssl=1 219w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/hamill_usa_flag.jpg?resize=110%2C150&amp;ssl=1 110w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/hamill_usa_flag.jpg?resize=400%2C548&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/hamill_usa_flag.jpg?w=438&amp;ssl=1 438w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 219px) 100vw, 219px\" \/><\/a>Adirondack Bank is proud to announce the sponsorship of American mixed martial artist and wrestler Matt Hamill. Hamill, who was born deaf, is a 2000 wrestling Olympian. He has a gold medal in Greco-Roman Wrestling and a gold medal in Freestyle Wrestling from the 1998 Pan Am Game in Cuba. Matt has a mixed martial arts record of 12-5. He was a contestant on The Ultimate Fighter 3 reality television show, training under former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Tito Ortiz in the 205-pound weight class.<\/p>\n<p>Matt graduated from Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester where he was a three-time NCAA Division III National Champion in wrestling, a three-time All-American, a three-time New York State <!--more-->Champion, and a three-time RIT Invitational Champion. His career record at RIT was 111-3, and he holds the all-time RIT record for more tournament wins with 71.<\/p>\n<p>Bank officials and Matt are excited about the newly formed sponsorship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMatt\u2019s success originates from his hard work, perseverance, and dedication, both in life and as an athlete. He is well-known amongst the local community and Adirondack Bank is so happy to be sponsoring such a remarkable athlete,\u201d said Rob Clark, Adirondack Bank\u2019s Executive Vice President.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adirondack Bank is proud to announce the sponsorship of American mixed martial artist and wrestler Matt Hamill. Hamill, who was born deaf, is a 2000 wrestling Olympian. He has a gold medal in Greco-Roman Wrestling and a gold medal in Freestyle Wrestling from the 1998 Pan Am Game in Cuba. Matt has a mixed martial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69228,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[94,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-top-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-i0z","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/hamill_usa_flag.jpg?fit=438%2C600&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/69228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}