{"id":8107,"date":"2026-09-03T00:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T00:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gahof.org\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=8107"},"modified":"2026-09-05T15:36:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T15:36:00","slug":"matt-buck","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/gahof.org\/?portfolio=matt-buck","title":{"rendered":"Matt Buck"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Matt Buck is one of Georgia\u2019s greatest breaststrokers. An Athens Bulldog swimmer, Matt was USA\u2019s #1 ranked 17-18 breaststroker and Junior National champion. He won 3 state high school breaststroke titles for the Oconee County Warriors. As a collegian, Matt set school records at two different schools, (Davidson and UGA) and was conference champion in two different conferences (Southern and Southeastern). In 1996, Matt was NCAA champion in the 200 breaststroke.<\/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=\"Matt Buck   2026 HOF\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YScBB4ukHmY?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>Matt Buck is one of Georgia\u2019s greatest breaststrokers. An Athens Bulldog swimmer, Matt was USA\u2019s #1 ranked 17-18 breaststroker and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gahof.org\/?portfolio=matt-buck\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Matt Buck<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8117,"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":[418],"portfolio_tag":[],"class_list":["post-8107","portfolio","type-portfolio","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","portfolio_category-2026-inductees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gahof.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/8107","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=8107"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gahof.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/8107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8118,"href":"https:\/\/gahof.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/8107\/revisions\/8118"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gahof.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gahof.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"portfolio_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gahof.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fportfolio_category&post=8107"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gahof.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fportfolio_tag&post=8107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}