{"id":12886,"date":"2014-10-02T16:19:49","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T06:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/?p=12886"},"modified":"2014-10-02T16:19:49","modified_gmt":"2014-10-02T06:19:49","slug":"the-club-in-the-scrub-recognised-at-the-community-sport-recreation-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/news\/2014\/10\/02\/the-club-in-the-scrub-recognised-at-the-community-sport-recreation-awards","title":{"rendered":"The &#8216;club in the scrub&#8217; recognised at the Community Sport &amp; Recreation Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3W4S28137aY\">Yaapeet Tennis Club<\/a>, who like to describe themselves as the \u2018club in the scrub\u2019, boast a membership higher than the town\u2019s population.<\/p>\n<p>A finalist in the Most Outstanding Club, Centre or Association at the Victorian Tennis Awards in June, Yaapeet is continuing to be recognised for their welcoming community environment. The club was a finalist in the Community Sporting Club of the Year- sponsored by La Trobe University at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dpcd.vic.gov.au\/sport\/news-and-events\/news\/north-melbournes-the-huddle-tops-2014-community-sport-and-recreation-awards\">Victorian Government\u2019s 2014 Community Sport and Recreation Awards<\/a> last night.<\/p>\n<p>Newtown City Hockey Club claimed the award, but Yaapeet inspired the crowd and were rewarded with $1000.<\/p>\n<p>The major award of the evening, the Minister\u2019s Award, was presented to \u2018The Huddle\u2019, a joint North Melbourne Football Club, Scanlon Foundations and Australian Multicultural Foundation initiative.<\/p>\n<p>Tennis Victoria, via the ACE program, has worked with \u2018The Huddle\u2019 promoting tennis, including running a six week tennis program at Flemington Community Center, and excursions to Royal Park Tennis Club and Melbourne Park. \u2018The Huddle\u2019 will also be included in Tennis Victoria\u2019s annual multicultural day at the Australian Open.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to all <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dpcd.vic.gov.au\/sport\/news-and-events\/news\/finalists-announced-for-community-sport-and-recreation-awards\">finalists<\/a> and winners on the evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yaapeet Tennis Club, who like to describe themselves as the \u2018club in the scrub\u2019, boast a membership higher than the town\u2019s population. A finalist in the Most Outstanding Club, Centre or Association at the Victorian Tennis Awards in June, Yaapeet is continuing to be recognised for their welcoming community environment. The club was a finalist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5907,"featured_media":12888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5907"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}