{"id":17974,"date":"2022-09-17T18:11:04","date_gmt":"2022-09-17T08:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/?p=17974"},"modified":"2022-09-17T18:22:02","modified_gmt":"2022-09-17T08:22:02","slug":"tennis-act-award-the-best-in-the-act-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/news\/2022\/09\/17\/tennis-act-award-the-best-in-the-act-region","title":{"rendered":"Tennis ACT award the best in the ACT &amp; Region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight, the <strong>Tennis ACT Awards<\/strong> were held at Manuka Oval, with over 100 guests in attendance from the tennis community.<\/p>\n<p>The event highlights collective successes including club growth, coaching talent and player highlights, showcasing the people and groups who were responsible for making it happen. The night also included the <strong>Tennis ACT Walk of Fame<\/strong> induction of <strong>Reg \u2018Blackie\u2019 Bennett<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>2022 Tennis ACT Award winners;<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>ACT Athlete of the Year<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Nick Kyrgios <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Junior Athlete of the Year \u2013 Male<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Charlie Camus<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Junior Athlete of the Year \u2013 Female<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Wambui Taylor<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Coaching Excellence \u2013 Development<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Nathan Price<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Coaching Excellence \u2013 Performance<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Alun Jones<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Coaching Excellence \u2013 Club<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Owen Peemoeller, On The Line Tennis<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>ACT Adult Club Player of the Year<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Tui Allison, Forrest Tennis Club<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>ACT Junior Club Player of the Year<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Jackson Roberts, Jerrabomberra Tennis Club<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Most Outstanding School<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Mother Teresa School, Harrison<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Most Outstanding Inclusion Initiative<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Manuka Tennis Club<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Excellence in Officiating<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Ammad Shamsi<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Most Outstanding 30+ Tennis Senior<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Graham Smith<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Most Outstanding Tennis Club or Venue<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Manuka Tennis Club<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Volunteer Achievement Award<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Paul Trezise, Murrumbateman Tennis Club<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Winners from the Tennis ACT Awards in linked categories will be nominated for the prestigious Tennis Australia Awards, the <strong>Newcombe Medal<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight, the Tennis ACT Awards were held at Manuka Oval, with over 100 guests in attendance from the tennis community. The event highlights collective successes including club growth, coaching talent and player highlights, showcasing the people and groups who were responsible for making it happen. The night also included the Tennis ACT Walk of Fame [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6150,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17974","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\/6150"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}