{"id":13506,"date":"2018-03-24T15:43:18","date_gmt":"2018-03-24T04:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/?p=13506"},"modified":"2018-03-24T15:43:18","modified_gmt":"2018-03-24T04:43:18","slug":"sports-align-to-get-girls-moving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/news\/2018\/03\/24\/sports-align-to-get-girls-moving","title":{"rendered":"Sports align to get girls moving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A number of State Sporting Organisations have partnered with the Australian Government\u2019s <strong>Girls Make Your Move <\/strong>campaign for a girls\u2019 day on Sunday 25 March, a free community event aiming to inspire, energise and empower young women to be more active.<\/p>\n<p>The Girls Make Your Move Day will be held at the Canberra Tennis Centre from 9am \u2013 11am with a number of sports on offer including\u00a0basketball, cricket,\u00a0hockey,\u00a0netball, tennis, and\u00a0volleyball.\u00a0 There will also be Yoga, Boot camp, and box fit sessions provided by <strong>Next Gen Health and Lifestyle Club Canberra.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>The event is being held in conjunction with the <strong>ACT Claycourt International, <\/strong>back to back Women\u2019s ITF Pro Tour tournaments which have attracted players from around the globe.<\/p>\n<p>Tennis ACT CEO <strong>Kim Kachel <\/strong>said \u201cWith such an amazing calibre of athletes in Canberra for the ACT Claycourt International we saw it as a great opportunity to promote women\u2019s sport and drive participation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe reached out to the other sports in the ACT and were overwhelmed with the response received.\u00a0 We have a great sporting network here in Canberra and it\u2019s great to work together to help promote female participation in sport.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The focus of the day is all around participation and getting involved and active.\u00a0 One hundred free tennis racquets will be given away to the first 100 girls through the gate and there will be a variety of prizes throughout the day.<\/p>\n<p>As well as sports there will be additional activities for kids including a jumping castle, face painting, and Enchanted Canberra\u2019s Belle and The Flash.<\/p>\n<p>More details on the event can be found on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1881704908530921\/\">facebook page<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Following the event, the final of the ACT Claycourt International #1 will be held at 11.00am.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the event or the Girls Make Your Move campaign, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.girlsmove.gov.au\">www.girlsmove.gov.au<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A number of State Sporting Organisations have partnered with the Australian Government\u2019s Girls Make Your Move campaign for a girls\u2019 day on Sunday 25 March, a free community event aiming to inspire, energise and empower young women to be more active. The Girls Make Your Move Day will be held at the Canberra Tennis Centre [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5789,"featured_media":13510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5789"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}