This week we were successful in our application to New Zealand Community Trust (NZCT) for $120,000 for our court lighting project. Thanks ever so much NZCT for the funding. We are very appreciative you saw the merit in our funding application and understand the high importance of sport to our community. The total project cost […]
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Great news for junior tennis this summer: we have a highly-regarded professional tennis coach funded for term 4 and term 1 next year to provide four sessions of after-school coaching every Tuesday at the club. The coach is Kurt McNamara (pictured below), previously head coach at Feilding Tennis Club for 10 years, and now coaching
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Night time tennis is about to become part of the experience at our club — with floodlighting on six 12m high pylons now approved for our four tennis courts. Kāpiti Coast District Council has given us resource consent to put in the lighting. Now all we need do is find the approx $100,000 to pay
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Our senior and junior interclub teams had good success this past summer. The Ōtaki Mail wraps it all up nicely here …
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Big congrats to our senior C-grade tennis team who won their grade yesterday with a round still to go in the competition! Last season the team won the D grade and were promoted to C grade. Now they are in line for promotion to B Grade. Go Ōtaki Sports Club! From left: Nopera Stewart, Heitia
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Congrats to club member Fiona Wilson (pictured below right) who won a bronze award in women’s doubles (with Deb Kerr from Masterton Tennis Club) at the Masters Games held in Whanganui last week. Fiona is a big supporter of tournaments and events as a way to improve tennis ability. In December, she played in the
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Congrats to our junior A-grade interclub tennis team — the Racqueteers — for their 2nd place finish in the pre-Christmas season and well done, too, to our two C-grade teams for their competitive play in their grade. The Racqueteers finished off the season with a good 4-2 win over Whitby on the weekend to cement
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A historic season for tennis at Ōtaki Sports Club this year. For the first time in many years we had two senior interclub teams, and both won their grades. Our A grade team won their grade with a week still to play, and ended the season undefeated, and the D grade team also comfortably won
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