{"id":31894,"date":"2024-05-23T11:00:57","date_gmt":"2024-05-23T01:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/?p=31894"},"modified":"2024-05-23T11:03:08","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T01:33:08","slug":"national-volunteer-week-caitlin-davies-and-priscilla-vokolos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/news\/2024\/05\/23\/national-volunteer-week-caitlin-davies-and-priscilla-vokolos","title":{"rendered":"National Volunteer Week: Caitlin Davies and Priscilla Vokolos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-31895\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/files\/2024\/05\/DMZ_5981.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"473\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/files\/2024\/05\/DMZ_5981.jpg 6000w, https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/files\/2024\/05\/DMZ_5981-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/files\/2024\/05\/DMZ_5981-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 473px) 100vw, 473px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Caitlin Davies<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: How long have you been a volunteer?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I started volunteering in 2019 performing social media tasks and further became Secretary at the Prospect Tennis Club in 2022.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: Tell us about your favourite part of your role.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"ui-provider a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z ab ac ae af ag ah ai aj ak\" dir=\"ltr\">My favourite part about my role would be seeing the club go from strength to strength. When Priscilla and I became Secretary and President, we implemented a lot of new processes, a compulsory uniform, chose to elevate events and more.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"ui-provider a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z ab ac ae af ag ah ai aj ak\" dir=\"ltr\">Seeing everything fall into place and happen seamlessly (most of the time!) is fulfilling and exciting!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: Favourite Tennis memory.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"ui-provider a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z ab ac ae af ag ah ai aj ak\" dir=\"ltr\">My favourite tennis memories are when Priscilla and I used to play doubles together. No matter how badly or well we played, we would laugh the whole way through, make fun of each other (especially when Priscilla missed a shot and looked directly at her racquet like there was a hole in the middle?!) and egg each other on!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"ui-provider a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z ab ac ae af ag ah ai aj ak\" dir=\"ltr\"> Anyone who would watch us play would say they heard the saying \u201ctoo many Weet-Bix mate!\u201d millions of times throughout the game when one of us would hit the ball out. We just had fun!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Priscilla Vokolos<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: How long have you been a volunteer?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"ui-provider a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z ab ac ae af ag ah ai aj ak\" dir=\"ltr\">I started as Secretary in 2018 and then became President in 2022 at the Prospect Tennis Club.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: Tell us about your favourite part of your role.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"ui-provider a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z ab ac ae af ag ah ai aj ak\" dir=\"ltr\">My favourite part about my role is the long lasting relationships I\u2019ve built with everyone at the club. Being able to see first hand that we\u2019re a club that people tend to stick around for a long time, it\u2019s more than just a club to a lot of us and that is really special!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: Favourite Tennis memory.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"ui-provider a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z ab ac ae af ag ah ai aj ak\" dir=\"ltr\">The first one I can remember was being at the back of the court picking up tennis balls while my brother had his first lesson at Prospect. I was five at the time and just remember thinking that I wanted that to me be one day &#8211; it\u2019s a very full circle moment for me!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caitlin Davies Q: How long have you been a volunteer? I started volunteering in 2019 performing social media tasks and further became Secretary at the Prospect Tennis Club in 2022. Q: Tell us about your favourite part of your role. My favourite part about my role would be seeing the club go from strength to [&hellip;]<\/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-31894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31894","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=31894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}