{"id":142642,"date":"2023-03-02T13:14:48","date_gmt":"2023-03-02T18:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=142642"},"modified":"2023-03-02T13:14:48","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T18:14:48","slug":"new-nelson-baseball-program-opens-for-girls-honours-late-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/new-nelson-baseball-program-opens-for-girls-honours-late-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"New Nelson baseball program opens for girls, honours late coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p2\">The Nelson Baseball Association is piloting an all-girls only baseball program this spring in honour of late coach Amanda Asay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">The program, open to girls ages 7-10, comes as the association picked up on interest in the sport in Nelson appears to have spiked among younger prospects.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">\u201cIt made our organization believe there was enough local interest to build a team,\u201d said Nelson Baseball Association President Jay Stewart.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">As of last week, only a few spots remained after the spots began filling up right after registration opened. Stewart credited the interest in the program to the line-up of qualified trainers like Fruitvale\u2019s Allison Schroeder, who both plays on the national women\u2019s baseball team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">\u201cI\u2019d be very hard pressed to imagine who else you could put in front of a young impressionable girl and say \u2018hey, this person has done everything you could do in baseball in this country,\u201d Stewart said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><em><strong>Listen to the CJLY story:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nelson Baseball Association is piloting an all-girls only baseball program this spring in honour of late coach Amanda Asay. The program, open to girls ages 7-10, comes as the association picked up on interest in the sport in Nelson appears to have spiked among younger prospects. \u201cIt made our organization believe there was enough&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":143,"featured_media":142648,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,204],"tags":[23891,23890,23892,9445],"radio":[1420],"origine":[280,2165,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142642"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/143"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142642"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142657,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142642\/revisions\/142657"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142642"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=142642"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=142642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}