{"id":18684,"date":"2023-07-28T01:51:16","date_gmt":"2023-07-27T17:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/?p=18684"},"modified":"2023-07-28T01:55:40","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T17:55:40","slug":"tennis-australia-community-coaching-course-hits-the-wheatbelt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/news\/2023\/07\/28\/tennis-australia-community-coaching-course-hits-the-wheatbelt","title":{"rendered":"Tennis Australia Community Coaching Course hits the Wheatbelt"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tennis West travelled into the wheatbelt this week to deliver a two-day Women\u2019s Community Coaching Course in Wagin.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The course saw 14 participants from across the wheatbelt become accredited community tennis coaches who will continue to inspire the next generation of players and make a considerable impact in their local clubs and communities across rural WA.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Participants came from <\/span>the communities of Boxwood Hills, Franklin River, Tenterden, Katanning, Nyabing, Dudinin, Narrogin, Nungarin, Lake Grace, and Beverley and continued their development with the stages of Hot Shots using modified equipment\/nets and learning all about coaching methods, lesson planning and the coach role.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The course trains those interested in beginning tennis coaching, or who currently are coaching, under the guidance of a qualified tennis coach.\u00a0 Coaches learn to develop the skills of junior tennis players with a focus on the Tennis Hot Shots program.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This regionally located Tennis Australia course is a Tennis West Coach Development initiative supported by Tennis Australia and the Women & Girls Strategy to support the regional areas of the Wheatbelt, Great Southern & Lower Great Southern.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Community Coaching Course, delivered by Tennis Australia National Women & Girls Lead Christina Ladyman trained coaches to develop the skills of junior tennis players and enabling them to make a considerable impact in their local club and community.<\/span><\/p>\n

Tennis West <\/span>Regional Development Officer Wheatbelt Megan Henry was extremely proud to co-facilitate a Tennis Australia coaching course at a regional location.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Community Coaching course was well supported making it more accessible for regional clubs and rural volunteers to access coaching development opportunities which helps to increase junior participation.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe course will ensure these integral community coaches continue to inspire the next generation of players in rural WA,\u201d said Megan.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The next Community Coaching Course is set for the 6<\/span>th<\/span> of October in Perth for metro participants.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tennis West travelled into the wheatbelt this week to deliver a two-day Women\u2019s Community Coaching Course in Wagin.\u00a0 The course saw 14 participants from across the wheatbelt become accredited community tennis coaches who will continue to inspire the next generation of players and make a considerable impact in their local clubs and communities across rural […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6359,"featured_media":18685,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}