{"id":14018,"date":"2017-11-30T14:56:10","date_gmt":"2017-11-30T04:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/?p=14018"},"modified":"2017-11-30T14:56:10","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T04:26:10","slug":"helen-rice-brings-home-newcombe-medal-coaching-excellence-club-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/news\/2017\/11\/30\/helen-rice-brings-home-newcombe-medal-coaching-excellence-club-award","title":{"rendered":"Helen Rice brings home Newcombe Medal Coaching Excellence Club award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Helen Rice <\/strong>(Belair, SA) took home the Coaching Excellence Club award at Monday night\u2019s <strong>Newcombe Medal<\/strong> held at the Crown Palladium in Melbourne.<\/p>\n<p>Having been a finalist five times, Rice was thrilled to bring home the award.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt just feels unbelievable, I\u2019ve been a finalist five times now and this the first win, so it\u2019s just pretty amazing!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt does mean a lot, because I\u2019ve been passionate about it and I\u2019ve put in a lot of hard yards, but I\u2019ve done that because I\u2019ve enjoyed it,\u201d added Rice.<\/p>\n<p>Tennis SA CEO, <strong>Steven Baldas,<\/strong> congratulated Rice on the announcement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHelen is a very well-respected coach in South Australia and this award is testament to Helen\u2019s commitment, passion and enthusiasm for the sport.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are incredibly proud of Helen and congratulate her on this wonderful achievement,\u201d said Baldas.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Interview with Helen Rice - 2017 Newcombe Medal (27 November 2017)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DBRkaVHDUFA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Other South Australian finalists included Sam Wall (Aberfoyle Park, SA) and 2017 Fed Cup Foundation Bronze Women\u2019s AMT and Girls\u2019 JT (Henley Beach South, SA).<\/p>\n<p>Australia\u2019s top-ranked tennis player <strong>Ashleigh Barty <\/strong>(Qld) was also awarded tennis\u2019 top honour by legend <strong>John Newcombe<\/strong> at the annual awards ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>Barty takes out the award after edging out fellow nominees <strong>Daria Gavrilova <\/strong>(Vic), <strong>Nick Kyrgios <\/strong>(ACT), <strong>John Peers <\/strong>(Vic) and <strong>Jordan Thompson <\/strong>(NSW).<\/p>\n<p>The Newcombe Medal is the premier award presented on a night that recognises players, coaches, clubs, communities, volunteers and officials for their service to the sport. The awards ceremony has been held annually since 2010.<\/p>\n<p>A highlight of the evening\u2019s celebrations was the presentation of the <strong>Spirit of Tennis Award<\/strong> to the former Victorian Premier <strong>John Cain<\/strong> who was instrumental in the development of the Melbourne Park precinct.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alex De Minaur<\/strong> (NSW) was named Male Junior Athlete of the Year for the second year in a row, while <strong>Destanee Aiava<\/strong> (Vic) collected Female Junior Athlete of the Year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Archie Graham <\/strong>(Qld) was awarded the Most Outstanding Athlete with a Disability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Helen Rice (Belair, SA) took home the Coaching Excellence Club award at Monday night\u2019s Newcombe Medal held at the Crown Palladium in Melbourne. Having been a finalist five times, Rice was thrilled to bring home the award. \u201cIt just feels unbelievable, I\u2019ve been a finalist five times now and this the first win, so it\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5736,"featured_media":14019,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5736"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}