{"id":16286,"date":"2016-10-25T16:17:22","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T05:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/?p=16286"},"modified":"2016-10-25T16:17:22","modified_gmt":"2016-10-25T05:17:22","slug":"tennis-victoria-board-gender-balance-now-5050","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/news\/2016\/10\/25\/tennis-victoria-board-gender-balance-now-5050","title":{"rendered":"Tennis Victoria Board gender balance now 50\/50"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tennis Victoria is very pleased to announce the appointment of Matti Clements<\/strong> to its Board of Directors.<\/p>\n

Ms Clements joins the Tennis Victoria Board with a wealth of experience in sport.\u00a0 She is currently the Director and Senior Psychologist of Mental Edge Consulting which provides services to multiple major sporting codes.\u00a0 Previously she has been the General Manager of People and Culture at the St Kilda Football Club, National Wellbeing Services Manager at the AFL Players Association, and Senior Psychologist at the Australian Institute of Sport.\u00a0 Most recently Ms Clements was a part of the Brisbane Lions selection panel to appoint their new coach.<\/p>\n

The appointment of Ms Clements sees Tennis Victoria now have a 50\/50 gender balance on its Board.\u00a0 This is an illustration of Tennis Victoria having been the \u2018Improving Leadership and Governance\u2019 Case Study in the Minister for Sport\u2019s \u201cInquiry into Women and Girls in Sport and Active Recreation \u2013 A Five Year Game Plan for Victoria\u201d, a report that was released in November 2015.<\/p>\n

In announcing the appointment, Tennis Victoria President Gary Clark said \u201cAs a Board we are thrilled to have Matti join us.\u00a0 Matti brings a variety of skills and experience that will benefit tennis in Victoria and adds to the important diversity of our Board of Directors.\u00a0 The Board\u2019s depth of great local tennis knowledge and experience, combined with outstanding wider sports industry, business and governance backgrounds, is something that we are very proud of.\u00a0 Five of our Directors are Graduates of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ms Clements said \u201cI am delighted to join the Tennis Victoria Board and look forward to positively contributing to such a large participation sport at the community level.\u00a0 Whilst I am often involved in high performance sport in my work life I have an absolute passion for the importance of grassroots sport and recreation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Victorian tennis now makes up 43% of the nation\u2019s registered participation figures, from just 25% of the Australian population.\u00a0 This includes an impressive growth in the ANZ Tennis Hot Shots junior participation program.\u00a0 In the last five years, Hot Shots participation in Victoria has grown from just 9,175 boys and girls to nearly 87,000 registrants in 2015\/16.<\/p>\n

The gender balance of the Board is also reflected in the staff at Tennis Victoria with a near 50\/50 split amongst the 37 full-time equivalent staff.\u00a0 It is also reflected in the participation of the great game of tennis which is truly a sport for all members of any community or family, no matter what age, gender, background or level of ability.<\/p>\n

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Background<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tennis Victoria\u2019s purpose is to have more people playing tennis, more often, for life; in full support of Tennis\u2019s national vision of ONE Million connected Australians.\u00a0 To achieve this, a prime part of its role is to service the 885 affiliated clubs, centres and associations across the metropolitan and country regions of state, and support their amazing volunteers, administrators and coaches that tirelessly drive the game at the local level.<\/p>\n

The Tennis Victoria Board comprises:<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Gary Clark <\/strong>\u2013 President<\/p>\n

 <\/td>\n

Barrister<\/p>\n

Life Member and former President, Liston Tennis Club<\/td>\n

 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mark Da Silva<\/strong> \u2013 Vice President<\/td>\nPrincipal, Hoyle Da Silva Lawyers<\/p>\n

President, Bayside Regional Tennis Association<\/p>\n

Life Member, St Andrew\u2019s Gardiner TC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Dr Emma Sherry<\/strong> \u2013 Vice President<\/td>\nPostgraduate Program Director, Sport Management, La Trobe University<\/p>\n

Director, Vicsport<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

James Copes<\/strong> \u2013 Treasurer<\/td>\nChief Financial Officer, National Embedded Networks<\/p>\n

Committee, Bundoora TC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Anne Baldwin<\/strong><\/td>\nClub Operations Manager, Frankston TC<\/p>\n

Secretary, Peninsula TA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Matti Clements\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/td>\nDirector and Senior Psychologist, Mental Edge Consulting<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Phil Crouch <\/strong><\/td>\nVic\/Tas Head of Regional Business Banking, ANZ<\/p>\n

North Kew & Greythorn TCs<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Maria Keys <\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/td>\n

Director, Keys Consulting Services<\/p>\n

Vice President, North Suburban Night TA<\/p>\n

Secretary, Royal Park TC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Simon Meadows<\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/td>\n

Chief Executive Officer, Selkirk Group<\/p>\n

Director, Cobaw Community Health Service<\/p>\n

President, Kyneton & District TC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Anna Speedie <\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n

Mayor, City of Wodonga<\/p>\n

General Manager, Albury Wodonga Community College<\/p>\n

Wodonga TC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tennis Victoria is very pleased to announce the appointment of Matti Clements to its Board of Directors. Ms Clements joins the Tennis Victoria Board with a wealth of experience in sport.\u00a0 She is currently the Director and Senior Psychologist of Mental Edge Consulting which provides services to multiple major sporting codes.\u00a0 Previously she has been […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5914,"featured_media":15803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16286","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\/16286","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=16286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}