{"id":18657,"date":"2021-03-03T09:01:34","date_gmt":"2021-03-02T22:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/?p=18657"},"modified":"2021-03-03T09:52:22","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T22:52:22","slug":"tennis-nsw-congratulates-mal-nicholson-from-chatswood-tennis-on-21-years-of-service-to-our-great-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/news\/2021\/03\/03\/tennis-nsw-congratulates-mal-nicholson-from-chatswood-tennis-on-21-years-of-service-to-our-great-game","title":{"rendered":"Tennis NSW congratulates Mal Nicholson from Chatswood Tennis on 21 years of service to our great game."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After 21 years\nof service to tennis and the Chatswood Tennis Club (CTC), Mal Nicholson has\ndecided to retire his position as President and Director on the Board. The CTC\nBoard and Richard Price from Sydney Sport Management Group (SSMG), as well as the\nteam from Tennis NSW would like to thank Mal for his passion and dedication to\nChatswood Tennis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the\nCOVID-19 crisis Mal collaborated with SSMG contributing significant hours working\nthrough the numerous operational challenges. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe always\nbrings a robust and diplomatic debate to the table. He has recruited an\nexcellent Board and has implemented a strong governance framework and capital\nworks program\u201d said Richard Price. <br>\n<br>\nDuring his tenure Mal and the Board have ensured\nthe Clubs financial sustainability and have consistently upgraded the facility which\nhas resulted in growing the club\u2019s membership from 80 to over 400 members. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In recent times\nMal has worked with his Board to deliver:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>A\nnew roof valued at approximately $100,000<\/li><li>Ongoing\ndelivery of a quality tennis court resurface program <\/li><li>A\ngrowing number of activities to increase tennis participation<\/li><li>A\nrolling maintenance program to ensure the facilities at the CTC are of the\nhighest standard.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Mal has\ndeveloped excellent relationships with key stakeholders, primarily:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Sydney Sport Management Group<\/li><li>Willoughby City Council which has enabled the club ongoing asset management support<\/li><li>The various Australian Tennis Organisations, including Tennis Australia and Tennis NSW. <\/li><li>CTC neighbouring property owners<\/li><li>The members of the club <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, Mal was\nalso instrumental in steering Chatswood Tennis Club to winning the 2018 NSW\nClub of the Year at the Tennis NSW Awards ceremony<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 21 years of service to tennis and the Chatswood Tennis Club (CTC), Mal Nicholson has decided to retire his position as President and Director on the Board.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6180,"featured_media":18658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}