{"id":19858,"date":"2019-01-31T08:29:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T21:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/?p=19858"},"modified":"2019-02-07T09:59:19","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T22:59:19","slug":"future-leaders-shine-at-spiritual-home-of-tennis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/news\/2019\/01\/31\/future-leaders-shine-at-spiritual-home-of-tennis","title":{"rendered":"Future Leaders shine at spiritual home of tennis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tennis Victoria Future Leaders program has concluded for another year and congratulated the 2018 graduating students.<\/p>\n<p>The program aims to contribute thousands of hours back into the Victorian tennis community and grow the next wave of volunteers.<\/p>\n<p>A graduation ceremony was held at the spiritual home of tennis, Kooyong Lawn Tennis Club, with attendees able to then enjoy a day at the Kooyong Classic.<\/p>\n<p>Students that fulfilled the requirements of a camp during the July school holidays and a 40-hour project at their tennis club were presented with certificates by Tennis Victoria acting CEO, Belinda Kleverlaan.<\/p>\n<p>Kleverlaan believes the Future Leaders program is a perfect example of how we develop and engage the next generation of volunteers of our sport.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Future Leaders program has once again welcomed some outstanding students and we congratulate them on their wonderful efforts,&#8221; Kleverlaan said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Listening to a few of the projects and how detailed and thorough the students were in implementing their vision was quite inspiring.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Volunteers are truly the lifeblood of the sport and it\u2019s so valuable to have youth representation at local clubs,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>For further information on the Future Leaders program, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/players\/programs\/future-leaders\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Future Leaders camp | 2018 Future Leaders\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/H37Zh-RbYN8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tennis Victoria&#8217;s Future Leaders program congratulates its 2018 graduates<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6038,"featured_media":19911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19858","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\/19858","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=19858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}