{"id":5445,"date":"2024-02-27T17:47:39","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T17:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/?p=5445"},"modified":"2024-02-27T17:47:44","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T17:47:44","slug":"troy-freshman-avery-padgett-makes-waves-on-bass-fishing-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2024\/02\/27\/troy-freshman-avery-padgett-makes-waves-on-bass-fishing-scene\/","title":{"rendered":"TROY freshman Avery Padgett makes waves on bass fishing scene"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TROY, Ala. (<a href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TROJANVISION<\/a>) \u2014 A member of TROY&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/troyubassteam.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bass Fishing Team<\/a> is turning out to be quite the catch. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/news\/padgett-in-championship\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Avery Padgett<\/a> is making waves, literally, on the nation&#8217;s bass fishing scene. His experience with the sport started when he was young. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I kind of grew up with it,&#8221; Padgett explained. &#8220;Watching on TV and my grandparents have a pond, and I live within walking distance from them. Ever since I was able to throw a rod, I was down there at the pond.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When choosing where to go to college, TROY stood out to Padgett. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2024\/02\/20\/head-coach-scott-cross-reaches-300th-career-win\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">KEEP READING: Head Coach Scott Cross reaches 300th career win<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;My biggest thing was having support from the University because it&#8217;s hard traveling and not having backing. That was another factor in where I wanted to go.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since coming to TROY, Padgett has gained attention for his successes at various fishing competitions, from both local and national levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;They catch &#8217;em everywhere they go. We&#8217;re fishing against your big Montevallo and Auburns, and they got 70 kids on their team. So, just to go out on our first tournament and qualify was a really big deal and really just helped us continue doing well throughout our season.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Once he graduates, Padgett hopes to make a career out of fishing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>&#8220;The dream is to fish. Get out of college and fish the opens and hopefully make it. It&#8217;s definitely going to be difficult but it&#8217;s definitely the dream for sure.&#8221;<\/p><cite>Avery Padgett<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The team can be followed on Facebook at Troy University Bass Fishing, on Instagram at Troy Bass Team, and on the <a href=\"http:\/\/troyubassteam.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">team&#8217;s website<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TROY, Ala. (TROJANVISION) \u2014 A member of TROY&#8217;s Bass Fishing Team is turning out to be quite the catch. <\/p>\n<p>Avery Padgett is making waves, literally, on the nation&#8217;s bass fishing scene. His experience with the sport started when he was young. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I kind of grew up with it,&#8221; Padgett explained. &#8220;Watching on TV&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a-button\" href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2024\/02\/27\/troy-freshman-avery-padgett-makes-waves-on-bass-fishing-scene\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":5447,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1437,1436,1147],"topics":[17],"class_list":["post-5445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-avery-padgett","tag-bass-fishing","tag-sports","topics-troy-campus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5445"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=5445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}