{"id":13897,"date":"2016-03-31T16:03:43","date_gmt":"2016-03-31T23:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/local-high-school-tennis-players-to-help-kids-with-special-needs\/"},"modified":"2016-10-21T15:20:32","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T22:20:32","slug":"local-high-school-tennis-players-to-help-kids-with-special-needs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/local-high-school-tennis-players-to-help-kids-with-special-needs\/","title":{"rendered":"Local high school tennis players to help kids with special needs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p><strong>For the Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The Boeing Employees Tennis Club (BETC) hosts a two-day tennis camp in April for children and young adults with Down syndrome and other special needs.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>BETC has partnered with The Jensen-Schmidt Tennis Academy for Down Syndrome on the event.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The camp is from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on April 23 and from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. on April 24 at BETC&#8217;s indoor tennis facility, 6727 S. 199th Place, Kent.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Vince Schmidt, who founded the academy with Grand Slam tennis champions Luke and Murphy Jensen, leads the camp, with the help of teaching pros, volunteers from BETC and local high school players.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The cost to attend is $75 and scholarships may be available. Registration is open at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jensen-schmidt.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.jensen-schmidt.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>&#8220;We are proud to host this event for children and young adults with special needs,&#8221; said BETC Club Director Adrian Buchan. &#8220;Tennis is a fantastic sport for people of all ages and abilities and this population in particular will benefit from the exercise and social skills it provides.&#8221;<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boeing Employees Tennis Club (BETC) hosts a two-day tennis camp in April for children and young adults with Down syndrome and other special needs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-13897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13897"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13897"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=13897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}