{"id":42180,"date":"2025-09-30T11:37:27","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T15:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/francia-jackson-dominican-volleyball-legend-to-the-hall-of-fame\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T11:37:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T15:37:27","slug":"francia-jackson-dominican-volleyball-legend-to-the-hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/francia-jackson-dominican-volleyball-legend-to-the-hall-of-fame\/","title":{"rendered":"Francia Jackson: Dominican Volleyball Legend to the Hall of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>France Jackson Immortalized in the Dominican Sports Hall of Fame<\/h2>\n\nSanto Domingo \u2013 The prominent former volleyball player Francia Jackson, a key figure of the &#8220;golden generation&#8221;, will be immortalized on November 16th in the prestigious Dominican Sports Hall of Fame.\n\nWith this exaltation, Jackson becomes the fourth member of that emblematic national team to receive this high honor, joining Milagros Cabral, Cosiris Rodr\u00edguez, and Yudelkis Bautista.\n\nRecognized as one of the ten best setters in the world in her time, Francia Jackson was instrumental in taking Dominican volleyball to the top of the international and Olympic stage.\n\nA high point in his career was carrying the national flag during the opening ceremony of the 2004 Athens Olympic Games.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The announcement was made by Dionisio Guzm\u00e1n, president of the Hall of Fame&#8217;s Permanent Committee.<\/p><cite>Dionisio Guzm\u00e1n<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nThe immortalization ceremony, which corresponds to the 59th Ceremonial, will be held in the auditorium of the Juan Pablo Duarte Olympic Center, with businessman Manuel Estrella as honorary president.\n\nWith the addition of France Jackson, the group of standouts in the Immortal Class of 2025 rises to nine.\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Jos\u00e9 Offerman<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Edwin Encarnaci\u00f3n<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Jos\u00e9 Reyes<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Joan Guzm\u00e1n<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Juan Carlos Jacinto<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Charlie Villanueva<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Gonzalo Mej\u00eda<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Beato Miguel Cruz<\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\nCurrently residing in the United States, after her time in Spain as a player and coach, Francia Jackson solidifies her legacy in Dominican sports.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France Jackson Immortalized in the Dominican Sports Hall of Fame Santo Domingo \u2013 The prominent former volleyball player Francia Jackson, a key figure of the &#8220;golden generation&#8221;, will be immortalized on November 16th in the prestigious Dominican Sports Hall of Fame. With this exaltation, Jackson becomes the fourth member of that emblematic national team to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[1271,7184,9326,2333],"class_list":{"0":"post-42180","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-dominican-republic","9":"tag-fame-pavilion","10":"tag-france-jackson","11":"tag-volleyball"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}