{"id":15347,"date":"2016-04-01T11:19:50","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T00:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/?p=15347"},"modified":"2016-04-01T11:19:50","modified_gmt":"2016-04-01T00:19:50","slug":"mitchams-geoff-armstrong-recognised-by-tennis-victoria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/news\/2016\/04\/01\/mitchams-geoff-armstrong-recognised-by-tennis-victoria","title":{"rendered":"Mitcham&#8217;s Geoff Armstrong recognised by Tennis Victoria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mitcham&#8217;s <strong>Geoff Armstrong<\/strong> has been\u00a0awarded a\u00a0Tennis Service Award for outstanding contribution to the former Mitcham Uniting Church Tennis Club and\u00a0<strong>Mitcham Tennis Club<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Geoff volunteered for at the Mitcham Uniting Church Tennis Club for 34 years before the club was closed. During this time, Geoff encouraged juniors to play, teaching the rules of the game and how to play until a club coach was appointed. He\u00a0subsequently became Junior Convener, became involved with Tennis Victoria and was club\u00a0Secretary for more than ten years.<\/p>\n<p>Mitcham Uniting Church Tennis Club closed it&#8217;s\u00a0courts in 2008 after the land was sold. Members were subsequently encouraged to join the Mitcham Tennis Club (MTC) in Nunawading. A number of members did move across and Geoff was elected President in 2009, a position he still holds today, along with the Junior Convenor role.<\/p>\n<p>Geoff is passionate about junior development, and consequently is now a referee for many tournaments throughout Victoria and occasionally interstate. He is also a member of various junior competition committees in Victoria.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on the Mitcham\u00a0Tennis Club visit\u00a0www.tennis.com.au\/mitchamtc<\/p>\n<p>The Tennis Service Award recognises those\u00a0who have demonstrated their contribution to the sport of tennis through devoted and significant service to any one or more of the State Tennis Associations\u2019 affiliated tennis clubs and\/or associations and\/or member organisations. To nominate someone from your club or association for an award\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/clubs\/tv-recognition-program\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mitcham&#8217;s Geoff Armstrong has been\u00a0awarded a\u00a0Tennis Service Award for outstanding contribution to the former Mitcham Uniting Church Tennis Club and\u00a0Mitcham Tennis Club. Geoff volunteered for at the Mitcham Uniting Church Tennis Club for 34 years before the club was closed. During this time, Geoff encouraged juniors to play, teaching the rules of the game and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5914,"featured_media":15350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15347","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\/15347","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\/5914"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}