{"id":8037,"date":"2012-09-17T13:21:47","date_gmt":"2012-09-17T19:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/searcylionpress.com\/?p=8037"},"modified":"2012-10-25T14:26:46","modified_gmt":"2012-10-25T20:26:46","slug":"tennis-team-loves-to-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/searcylionpress.com\/?p=8037","title":{"rendered":"Tennis team shows talent early in season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8575 aligncenter\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"DSCF0003\" src=\"https:\/\/searcylionpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSCF0003-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"694\" height=\"520\" srcset=\"https:\/\/searcylionpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSCF0003-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/searcylionpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSCF0003-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 694px) 100vw, 694px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8584 alignleft\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"DSCF0024\" src=\"https:\/\/searcylionpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSCF0024-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"434\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/searcylionpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSCF0024-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/searcylionpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSCF0024-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 434px) 100vw, 434px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The tennis team, coached by Miles Watson, is off to a great start this fall season.<\/p>\n<p>Tennis player, Stephen Hoffman said the season is going really well so far.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s during the fall semester and we&#8217;ve been practicing a lot and gradually getting better,&#8221; Hoffman said.<\/p>\n<p>Hoffman said he has been playing tennis since he was little.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My parents used to take me to play with my brother and sister,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Tennis can be played in singles or with partners. Hoffman plays both, and his partner is Landon Ashby when he plays doubles.<\/p>\n<p>Partners Sydni Woodard and Morgan Stanley are working hard for this season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A friend asked me to go to a tennis lesson with her when I was in eighth grade, and I haven&#8217;t put down a racket since,&#8221; Woodard said<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The team is made up of committed tennis lovers who give their all to the team.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Both the boys and girls teams are undefeated so far.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I expect great things from this season,&#8221; Woodard said. &#8220;The girls team has a really good chance of taking state this year, and I think we can do it if we work hard.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tennis team, coached by Miles Watson, is off to a great start this fall season. Tennis player, Stephen Hoffman said the season is going really well so far. &#8220;It&#8217;s during the fall semester and we&#8217;ve been practicing a lot and gradually getting better,&#8221; Hoffman said. Hoffman said he has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/searcylionpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/searcylionpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/searcylionpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/searcylionpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/searcylionpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8037"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/searcylionpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8586,"href":"https:\/\/searcylionpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8037\/revisions\/8586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/searcylionpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/searcylionpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/searcylionpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}