{"id":1150,"date":"2018-07-25T20:59:41","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T00:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racquetballcanada.ca\/ann-thatcher-1984-ivan-velan-award-recipient\/"},"modified":"2018-07-25T20:59:41","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T00:59:41","slug":"ann-thatcher-1984-ivan-velan-award-recipient","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/racquetballcanada.ca\/ann-thatcher-1984-ivan-velan-award-recipient\/","title":{"rendered":"Award Bio &#8211; Ann Thatcher"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"body3\">ANN THATCHER<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"body3\"><strong>1984 Ivan Velan Award Recipient<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"body3\">\u00a0(from Racquetball Canada Archives. Source: Canadian Racquetball, vol. 2, no. 1, 1984)<\/p>\n<p class=\"body3\">The Ivan Velan Award was presented at the Annual Awards Banquet to Winnipeg&#8217;s own ANN THATCHER. The Ivan Velan Award is presented annually for &#8220;outstanding contribution to Racquetball in Canada&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body3\">Ann is certainly a very deserving recipient of this prestigious award, having served for the past 3 years as Manitoba&#8217;s representative to the Canadian Racquetball Association&#8217;s (CRA) Board of Directors and Secretary on the CRA Executive, the past year and one-half on the Recreation Committee, and is currently CRA&#8217;s representative on the Canadian Professional Racquetball Organization&#8217;s Executive and Chairperson of CRA&#8217;s new Membership Committee. Ann has also contributed on no small scale to the Manitoba Racquetball Association&#8217;s success in the past few years, being a diligent worker, excellent spokesperson and a great resource person through her contacts at the Manitoba Sports Federation.<\/p>\n<p>Ann is known across Canada for her friendly manner, diligence, efficiency, and most of all, her unique Racquetball stroke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANN THATCHER 1984 Ivan Velan Award Recipient \u00a0(from Racquetball Canada Archives. Source: Canadian Racquetball, vol. 2, no. 1, 1984) The Ivan Velan Award was presented at the Annual Awards Banquet to Winnipeg&#8217;s own ANN THATCHER. The Ivan Velan Award is presented annually for &#8220;outstanding contribution to Racquetball in Canada&#8221;. Ann is certainly a very deserving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1150","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racquetballcanada.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racquetballcanada.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racquetballcanada.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racquetballcanada.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racquetballcanada.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/racquetballcanada.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racquetballcanada.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}