{"id":8033,"date":"2025-09-29T21:22:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T21:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gahof.org\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=8033"},"modified":"2025-09-30T16:00:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T16:00:45","slug":"harrison-merrill","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/gahof.org\/?portfolio=harrison-merrill","title":{"rendered":"Harrison Merrill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Harrison Merrill established his swimming career at the Atlanta Swim Association under Coach Pete Higgins by setting multiple age group records. As only a fourteen year old, Harrison finished sixth in the United States Nationals in the 1500 meter freestyle event. While attending Westminster Schools, Harrison received Prep All American Honors seventeen times. Harrison continued his swimming career at the University of North Carolina where his team won several ACC championships and he won individual titles in the 100, 200, and 500 yard freestyle and the 400 yard individual medley. He also received<br>several All American Honors while at UNC and the Patterson Award which is given to the most productive male and female athletes each year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Harrison Merrill GAHOF 2025 Inductee\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iscBxnvyd6A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harrison Merrill established his swimming career at the Atlanta Swim Association under Coach Pete Higgins by setting multiple age group &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gahof.org\/?portfolio=harrison-merrill\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Harrison Merrill<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8053,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"portfolio_category":[416],"portfolio_tag":[],"class_list":["post-8033","portfolio","type-portfolio","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","portfolio_category-2025-inductees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gahof.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/8033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gahof.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gahof.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/portfolio"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gahof.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gahof.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8033"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gahof.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/8033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8052,"href":"https:\/\/gahof.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/8033\/revisions\/8052"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gahof.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gahof.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"portfolio_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gahof.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fportfolio_category&post=8033"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gahof.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fportfolio_tag&post=8033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}