{"id":26365,"date":"2022-05-20T10:06:20","date_gmt":"2022-05-20T00:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/?p=26365"},"modified":"2022-05-20T10:06:20","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T00:36:20","slug":"positive-community-impact-sees-passionate-volunteer-encourage-others-to-get-involved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/news\/2022\/05\/20\/positive-community-impact-sees-passionate-volunteer-encourage-others-to-get-involved","title":{"rendered":"Positive community impact sees passionate volunteer encourage others to get involved"},"content":{"rendered":"

For Tennis SA\u2019s City\/Hills Volunteer Achievement Award recipient Brandon Oster,<\/strong> his tennis career at Enfield Tennis Club began at just 11 years of age. Eighteen years later, he is the President of both Enfield Tennis Club and North East Tennis Association (NETA).<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce I finished juniors, the following year I took on the Junior Coordinator position with my mate. After a couple of years, I moved on to the Men\u2019s Club Captain role for two years and now I\u2019ve been President of Enfield Tennis Club for the last six,” said Oster.<\/p>\n

“I\u2019ve been on the NETA committee for around eight years now, running the juniors for around seven of that and President for the last three years.”<\/p>\n

A willingness to learn and wanting to make a difference led Oster to take on his first volunteer role at the age of just 19.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur Junior Coordinator (who had taken me through all of my juniors) was ready to move on to another role on the committee after 12 years. I looked at that with one of my mates who had just finished juniors as well and thought we\u2019d like to do that. The people at the club were very supportive of that and helped us out,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d always shown an interest in how things run and operate. I just decided that I wanted to go to a NETA AGM one year and they were looking for people for the committee. The President at the time asked if we\u2019d like to join the committee. I asked \u2018what do you do?\u2019 and he said \u2018you just come to meetings\u2019. I thought no worries, but all of a sudden we were running the joint!\u201d<\/p>\n

Oster spoke of the positive impact of volunteering has had on not only his life, but the on the community as a whole.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think getting to see how an organisation runs can be a bit eye opening in a way. You sit back as a non-committee member or volunteer and you can sort of wonder how things run. Many think that they couldn\u2019t take on a role, but as you start to get involved you start to realise that it\u2019s not quite as hard as maybe it seems and you certainly build some experience along the way.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe other thing is the people I\u2019ve got to know. You really feel the sense of community when you are in these roles and to do a good job you need to be involved, meet and speak to people.\u201d<\/p>\n

Oster is passionate in encouraging others to get involved in volunteering at their club, no matter their age or experience.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are a very young committee which you don\u2019t see at too many clubs, but I guess to have a whole group of young people who want to be involved and get things done for the better is great to see. I am really proud of our committee.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDon\u2019t be afraid to have a go. If you feel you want to get involved, don\u2019t wait to be asked, speak to someone on the committee. You might not be sure about getting involved on the committee straight away, but if you want to help out it might be in the canteen for a couple of hours, organising a couple of teams or opening the club up before a match.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt might only be in a little way, but that can be such a great help and can take some of the pressure off those who do a lot of work around the club. Just don\u2019t be afraid to ask.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For Tennis SA\u2019s City\/Hills Volunteer Achievement Award recipient Brandon Oster, his tennis career at Enfield Tennis Club began at just 11 years of age. Eighteen years later, he is the President of both Enfield Tennis Club and North East Tennis Association (NETA). \u201cOnce I finished juniors, the following year I took on the Junior Coordinator […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5736,"featured_media":26366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26365","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\/26365","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=26365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}