{"id":8026,"date":"2018-06-18T15:04:03","date_gmt":"2018-06-18T05:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/?p=8026"},"modified":"2018-06-19T11:33:09","modified_gmt":"2018-06-19T01:33:09","slug":"dylan-alcott-visits-hobarts-southern-support-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/news\/2018\/06\/18\/dylan-alcott-visits-hobarts-southern-support-school","title":{"rendered":"Dylan Alcott visits Hobart&#8217;s Southern Support School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paralympic champion Dylan Alcott made a special visit to the Southern Support School in the Hobart suburb of Howrah this week.<\/p>\n<p>Alcott, a five-time Grand Slam champion and former Newcombe Medal winner, hit with some lucky students and presented a $10,000 cheque to the school as part of the ANZ Tennis Hot Shots Community Grants program on Monday morning. He also let students wear his Paralympic gold medals &#8211; won in basketball at Beijing in 2008 and tennis in Rio in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI played ANZ Tennis Hot Shots when I started in a school similar to this, so to be able to come here and hopefully inspire other kids is such a good opportunity,\u201d Alcott said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was great to see all the smiling faces of the students here today \u2013 they were pretty good at tennis too!\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Massive forehand here, keeping <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DylanAlcott?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@DylanAlcott<\/a> on point at the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ANZ_AU?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ANZ_AU<\/a> Tennis hotshots grant presentation at Southern Support School Howrah <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TennisTasmania?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TennisTasmania<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TennisAustralia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TennisAustralia<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/nextchamp?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#nextchamp<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RoleModel?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#RoleModel<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8uvTMhlmBV\">pic.twitter.com\/8uvTMhlmBV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jim Giles (@Gilesjr1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Gilesjr1\/status\/1008555827748196352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 18, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hotshots.tennis.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&gt; Find out more about ANZ Tennis Hot Shots<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Southern Support School principal Simon Ellaby said the ANZ Tennis Hot Shots program had social, emotional and developmental benefits for their students.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEngaging in a program like this (ANZ Tennis Hot Shots) is really good for them, it makes them full of life,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The school, which delivers the ANZ Tennis Hot Shots as part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/primary\/national-school-partnership-program\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National School Partnership<\/a>, plans to use the grant to construct an enclosed hitting wall for students to use.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s going to be a great asset to the school,\u201d Ellaby said. \u201cWe\u2019re already very proud of our students involved and this will provide more opportunities for others to play.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisgrants.anz.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&gt; Learn more about ANZ Tennis Hot Shots Community Grants<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alcott believes it is important to provide disabled students the chance to play sports such as tennis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a great way to make friends, get fit and have a good time. I think sometimes able-bodied children take that granted,\u201d Alcott said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere might be some barriers in the way \u2013 but there is always a way to figure it out and ANZ Tennis Hot Shots is a fantastic program that everyone can enjoy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paralympic champion Dylan Alcott visited the Hobart school to present a $10,000 ANZ Tennis Hot Shots Community Grant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6028,"featured_media":8029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[70,68,69],"class_list":["post-8026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-anz-tennis-hot-shots-community-grant","tag-dylan-alcott","tag-southern-support-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}