{"id":30756,"date":"2023-05-09T06:07:50","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T20:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/?p=30756"},"modified":"2023-10-21T00:37:40","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T13:37:40","slug":"affiliate-of-the-month-shepparton-lawn-tennis-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/news\/2023\/05\/09\/affiliate-of-the-month-shepparton-lawn-tennis-club","title":{"rendered":"Affiliate of the Month: Shepparton Lawn Tennis Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Congratulations to the April 2023 Affiliate of the Month, Shepparton Lawn Tennis Club.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Resilience and a pursuit of greatness sums up the Shepparton Lawn Tennis Club. The club undertook an innovative and thorough pursuit of a new head coach late in 2022, promoting the job through multiple platforms and highlighting the the amazing facilities, community, and benefits of moving to Shepparton. The process secured Sam Tozer who took the opportunity to move from Queensland to Shep! <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Not long after, the club was devastated by the floods in regional Victoria. Their plans to host Country Week were dismantled and a focus to recover the facility underway. <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">The club rallied and with the hard work of the curating team Ian, Julian, and John the courts were up and running for the summer of tennis. The club hosted the Victorian Grasscourt Championships in February attracting top players to the region. <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">All 22 grass courts were back in action for the Easter Tournament.\u00a0Entries were a sell out and Shepparton local Olivia Quigley won the Cheryl Cottrell Open Women Singles. New coach Sam also provided a coaching session during the tournament for the next generation. <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">You can view the Shepparton Lawn TC promotional video here: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SheppartonLawnTennisClub\/videos\/552224816514874\/\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SheppartonLawnTennisClub\/videos\/552224816514874\/<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"none\">. <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:288}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Congratulations to Shepparton Lawn Tennis Club on being the April 2023 Affiliate of the Month!<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to the April 2023 Affiliate of the Month, Shepparton Lawn Tennis Club.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6366,"featured_media":30757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[84,27],"class_list":["post-30756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-monthly-awards","tag-recognition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30756","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\/6366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}