{"id":8053,"date":"2024-08-25T14:20:24","date_gmt":"2024-08-25T04:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/?p=8053"},"modified":"2024-08-26T12:39:49","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T03:09:49","slug":"nt-hosts-the-australian-school-sports-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/news\/2024\/08\/25\/nt-hosts-the-australian-school-sports-championships","title":{"rendered":"NT hosts the School Sport Australia 12 Years and Under Tennis Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday wrapped the 2024 School Sport Australia 12 Years and Under Tennis Championships.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

112 kids representing every state and territory of Australia competed for the historic Bruce Cup trophy for the last 7 days, across both the Darwin International Tennis Centre<\/a>\u00a0in Marrara and Gardens Tennis Club<\/a>\u00a0at Mindil Beach.<\/p>\n

The Bruce Cup is a round robin competition with Singles and Doubles matches, it’s a wonderful opportunity for kids to represent the NT in an Australia-wide competition in a team environment, while learning new skills on and off the court.\u00a0Hosting this event in the NT is a privilege which only comes around once every 8 years. Teams from cooler climates definitely needed a little time to adjust to the heat and humidity, we think a record number of ice-creams were consumed!<\/p>\n

The NT team faced off against the toughest teams in the competition over the first days of the event and were proud to out-perform last year’s results in terms of competitiveness. The team of 14 girls and boys came together with kids from Darwin, Palmerston and Alice Springs. Their team managers Leanne Usher and Andy Bhardwaj were delighted by how they came together as a team and showed tireless support of each other as teammates.<\/p>\n

The Australian School Sports Championships 2024 ended with team NT coming in 8th place, a lot of memorable experiences, and a lot of fight shown from the whole team.<\/p>\n

Thank you to all of the kids who participated and their team managers. Also many thanks to all of the additional people who supported this important event on the tennis pathway. Players’ families, families who billeted kids, coaches, and of course massive thanks to School Sport Education NT<\/strong> for organising this wonderful event!<\/p>\n

The event hosting torch has passed to Victoria for the 2025 event, which will be a cracker!\u00a0Ballarat in regional Victoria will be playing host to the “School Sport Australia Games” in October 2025 – essentially all sports coming together in an Olympics style event including tennis.<\/p>\n

2024 School Sport Australia 12 Years and Under Tennis Championships – Results<\/strong><\/a>
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\nNT TEAM 2024: <\/strong>
\nAlicia Ward
\nCaitlyn Casey
\nDarius Chung
\nElizabeth France
\nEthan Harker
\nFrancesca (Frankie) Russell
\nLucy McNaught
\nMia Rose O’Connor
\nRiley Clark
\nRoy Vo
\nSid Sheriff
\nTaylor Albury
\nWilliam Pengelly
\nXander Hoppo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday wrapped the 2024 School Sport Australia 12 Years and Under Tennis Championships.\u00a0 112 kids representing every state and territory of Australia competed for the historic Bruce Cup trophy for the last 7 days, across both the Darwin International Tennis Centre\u00a0in Marrara and Gardens Tennis Club\u00a0at Mindil Beach. The Bruce Cup is a round robin […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6380,"featured_media":8059,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6380"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}