{"id":900,"date":"2019-11-27T21:43:36","date_gmt":"2019-11-28T02:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racquetballcanada.ca\/blog\/jennifer-saunders-joins-staff-at-racquetball-canada\/"},"modified":"2021-07-13T14:35:18","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T18:35:18","slug":"jennifer-saunders-joins-staff-at-racquetball-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racquetballcanada.ca\/jennifer-saunders-joins-staff-at-racquetball-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Jennifer Saunders Joins Staff at Racquetball Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3090\" src=\"https:\/\/racquetballcanada.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Jen-Saunders1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"290\"><\/p>\n<p>November 27, 2019 (Winnipeg, MB) &#8211; Racquetball Canada is pleased to welcome Jennifer Saunders as the organization&#8217;s new Administrator of High Performance and Sport Development.<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer is an 18 year veteran of Racquetball Canada\u2019s national team with many international and national podium results and brings an intimate knowledge of high performance sport to the position. In addition to her experience as an elite athlete, Jennifer holds a Bachelor of Arts in Physical Activity and Sport Studies. Her education, combined with her strong leadership skills and familiarity with the needs of Racquetball across Canada, will be valuable as Racquetball Canada looks to rebuild its development and high performance programs in the coming months.<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer also has a wealth of experience in sport administration through her work as the Executive Director of Racquetball Manitoba and her involvement with many provincial and national projects, as well as hosting national events.<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer will officially begin with Racquetball Canada on January 6, 2020 but will be spending time in December with Racquetball Canada staff. She will be taking over the responsibilities from Geri Powell, who is retiring from the position at the end of December after several years of commitment to the organization.<\/p>\n<p>Racquetball Canada is the national sport governing body for the sport of Racquetball in Canada. Along with the support of the Government of Canada and many valued partners, Racquetball Canada develops competitive national teams and oversees programs that grow the sport of racquetball in Canada.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 27, 2019 (Winnipeg, MB) &#8211; Racquetball Canada is pleased to welcome Jennifer Saunders as the organization&#8217;s new Administrator of High Performance and Sport Development. Jennifer is an 18 year veteran of Racquetball Canada\u2019s national team with many international and national podium results and brings an intimate knowledge of high performance sport to the position. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":395,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[67,56,68],"class_list":["post-900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-high-performance","tag-jennifer-saunders","tag-staff"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racquetballcanada.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racquetballcanada.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racquetballcanada.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/racquetballcanada.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15898,"href":"https:\/\/racquetballcanada.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900\/revisions\/15898"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racquetballcanada.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racquetballcanada.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racquetballcanada.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racquetballcanada.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}