{"id":17486,"date":"2017-07-03T09:35:13","date_gmt":"2017-07-02T23:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/?p=17486"},"modified":"2017-07-03T09:35:13","modified_gmt":"2017-07-02T23:35:13","slug":"meet-the-staff-pete-mcdonald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/news\/2017\/07\/03\/meet-the-staff-pete-mcdonald","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Staff &#8211; Pete McDonald"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Name:\u00a0<\/strong>Pete McDonald<\/p>\n<p><strong>Title:\u00a0<\/strong>Participation Leader \u2013 Country South West<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is your role at Tennis Victoria:\u00a0<\/strong>To be a resource to clubs, coaches and key stakeholders in the region with the aim to grow and develop tennis in a sustainable manner.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Best thing about the role:\u00a0<\/strong>Travelling to the different clubs throughout the region, meeting people who are proud of their club and love their tennis and working with a great bunch of individuals. \u00a0Seeing the diversity of this great sport from the worn out old courts in the middle of nowhere, to the world-class Melbourne Park, and everything in between.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What was your previous role:\u00a0<\/strong>Worked at Geelong Lawn Tennis Club &#8211; also coached there.\u00a0 Prior to that, I owned an Aged Care Facility.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are your interests outside of Tennis Victoria: <\/strong>Photography, travel, motorsport and a nice glass of red.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Favourite tennis player\/sporting athlete and why:\u00a0<\/strong>Novak Djokovic \u2013 mental toughness, court coverage, awesome kick serve.\u00a0 Interested to see what magic Andre Agassi can weave.\u00a0 Impressed with Alexander Zverev.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is one interesting fact that no one else knows about you:\u00a0<\/strong>I once played football for Geelong \u2013 the only touch I got was when I handed the ball to the umpire at half time!\u00a0 Too bad it was under 13s.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you were Prime Minister of Australia for one day, what would your first change be:\u00a0<\/strong>Resign \u2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you had one super power for a day, what would it be:\u00a0<\/strong>No need for sleep \u2026 image what you could do if you never had to sleep?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month&#8217;s Meet the Staff looks at Pete McDonald who recently started with Tennis Victoria as a Participation Leader (Country South West).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6038,"featured_media":17489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17486","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\/17486","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\/6038"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}