{"id":31886,"date":"2024-05-22T13:48:28","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T04:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/?p=31886"},"modified":"2024-05-22T13:48:28","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T04:18:28","slug":"national-volunteer-week-heidi-heemskerk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/news\/2024\/05\/22\/national-volunteer-week-heidi-heemskerk","title":{"rendered":"National Volunteer Week: Heidi Heemskerk"},"content":{"rendered":"

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National Volunteer Week recognises the diverse passions and talents everyone brings.\u00a0Thank you for your commitment and the positive impact within the tennis community.<\/p>\n

Q: How long have you been a volunteer?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I have been a volunteer I think since around the age of 8 (36 years!). It started out at my soccer club where my grandparents and parents were heavily involved. I would help my Oma with cleaning the club and my Mum with canteen duties, moving onto other roles as I got older. I’d say I started being a tennis volunteer at around 11-12. My Dad was on the\u00a0junior committee at the club so I would help him with different things, which moved into coaching juniors, mowing the lawns, club president, secretary and everything else in between!<\/p>\n

Q: Tell us about your favourite part of your role.<\/strong><\/p>\n

My favourite part of the role is seeing the young kids enjoy themselves out on court and the excitement\u00a0they get when they connect with a tennis ball for the first time. And just the friendships made from being involved in a club. It’s very rewarding.<\/p>\n

Q: Favourite Tennis memory.<\/strong><\/p>\n

My favourite tennis memory is a bit tricky and I probably have 2! The first being awarded Life Membership of my club, which was a huge\u00a0honour to be acknowledged for my work and commitment and the other memory is playing SAPSASA and being selected when I was a year 5. Which was basically unheard of back then. It was just for years 6 & 7. I then got selected the next 2 years so went for 3 years. After year 7 SAPSASA I got selected for a talent camp and went away with other kids to a camp at Wirrina\u00a0Cove. I felt special for getting to do that!<\/p>\n

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National Volunteer Week recognises the diverse passions and talents everyone brings.\u00a0Thank you for your commitment and the positive impact within the tennis community. Q: How long have you been a volunteer? I have been a volunteer I think since around the age of 8 (36 years!). It started out at my soccer club where my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6355,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31886","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\/6355"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}