{"id":36704,"date":"2024-01-26T00:12:09","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T13:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/?p=36704"},"modified":"2024-02-02T02:16:45","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T15:16:45","slug":"community-champion-of-the-month-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/news\/2024\/01\/26\/community-champion-of-the-month-january","title":{"rendered":"Community Champion of the Month &#8211; January"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Rowen D&#8217;Souza, the Community Champion of the Month for January 2024!<\/p>\n<p>Rowen is the President and CEO of the Gay &amp; Lesbian Tennis Alliance (GLTA). A keen tennis player himself, he started his volunteering journey over 8 years ago with Victennis, one of the longest standing LGBTIQ+ sporting clubs in Victoria.<\/p>\n<p>Across the years, Rowen has supported the introduction of Pride Tennis events and tournaments all across Victoria, and has been a key player in the addition of the Glam Slam to the calendar during the Australian Open at Melbourne Park.<\/p>\n<p>This year, Rowen has led the delivery of the GLTA World Championships at Royal Park Tennis Club. The first time the event has come to Melbourne.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you Rowen for your contribution to tennis in Victoria. Keep up the great work! To hear more from Rowen, check out the video <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/C2gjPXqP3xI\/?igsh=M2NyajRodXdlbDl2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve heard of the Glam Slam or enjoyed Pride Day at the AO, that is heavily because of the work and passion of the January Community Champion of the Month. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6382,"featured_media":36705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36704","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\/36704","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\/6382"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}