{"id":7029,"date":"2018-10-08T08:56:20","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T13:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/?p=7029"},"modified":"2018-10-08T08:56:50","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T13:56:50","slug":"saus-renovated-tennis-complex-open-to-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/2018\/saus-renovated-tennis-complex-open-to-public\/","title":{"rendered":"SAU&#8217;s renovated tennis complex open to public"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/10\/SAU20Live20Oaks20Tennis20Courts20FA18.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7030 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/10\/SAU20Live20Oaks20Tennis20Courts20FA18-300x221.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/10\/SAU20Live20Oaks20Tennis20Courts20FA18-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/10\/SAU20Live20Oaks20Tennis20Courts20FA18-768x567.jpg 768w, https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/10\/SAU20Live20Oaks20Tennis20Courts20FA18-1024x756.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/10\/SAU20Live20Oaks20Tennis20Courts20FA18.jpg 1050w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The newly-renovated Live Oaks Tennis Courts at Southern Arkansas University have open hours each day for the campus and community to enjoy.<\/p>\n<p>The open play schedule includes the following times:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>7:00 a.m. \u2013 1:00 p.m.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Monday \u2013 Friday<\/li>\n<li>6:30 p.m. \u2013 Midnight\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Monday \u2013 Friday<\/li>\n<li>7:00 a.m. \u2013 Midnight\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Saturday \u2013 Sunday<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Times are subject to change, and SAU events take priority in scheduling.<\/p>\n<p>SAU students, faculty and staff are invited to participate in tennis intramurals on Monday and Tuesday evenings at 6 p.m. from October 15 through November 13. Monday nights will be Women\u2019s League and Tuesday will be Men\u2019s League. Sign-up forms are at the Mulerider Activity Center. Open to all levels of players and tennis racquets are also available.<\/p>\n<p>The complex is located adjacent to and behind the W.T. Watson Center and the Aquatic Center. The renovation will be in two phases, with the first completed phase including an eight-court layout, new black vinyl fencing, new netting and sidewalks. Fund-raising efforts are already underway for Phase Two, which will include a tennis locker room and coach\u2019s office facility.<\/p>\n<p>The championship court was named in honor of Oliver M. Clegg, who graduated from Magnolia High School and received his degree from Magnolia A&amp;M (now SAU) in 1938. He learned to play tennis on a grass court at his uncle\u2019s house in Forest, Mississippi, and, for him, tennis became a lifelong passion.<\/p>\n<p>The revived men\u2019s and women\u2019s tennis programs join the 12 other Mulerider Athletic sports programs, which compete in the NCAA Division II Great American Conference. Athletic Director Steve Browning said SAU remains dedicated to elevating the success of Mulerider Athletics, and that tennis will contribute to that goal.<\/p>\n<p>Tennis has a long history at SAU with a combined 15 conference championships and over 100 all-conference players between the men\u2019s and women\u2019s programs. The men\u2019s team sat atop the Arkansas Intercollegiate Conference (AIC) in the 1980s with seven conference titles. The program also captured consecutive District 17 crowns in 1988 and 1989.<\/p>\n<p>The women\u2019s program was a perennial contender in the Arkansas Women\u2019s Intercollegiate Sports Association (AWISA) with a team championship in 1968 and a runner-up finish in 1973. The program earned a singles championship in 1973 and doubles titles in 1969 and 1973. SAU last fielded a women\u2019s tennis program in 2011-12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The newly-renovated Live Oaks Tennis Courts at Southern Arkansas University have open hours each day for the campus and community to enjoy. The open play schedule includes the following times: 7:00 a.m. \u2013 1:00 p.m.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Monday \u2013 Friday 6:30 p.m. \u2013 Midnight\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Monday \u2013 Friday 7:00 a.m. \u2013 Midnight\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Saturday \u2013 Sunday Times are subject&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/2018\/saus-renovated-tennis-complex-open-to-public\/\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":564,"featured_media":7030,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[276,265],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7029","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-community-corner","8":"category-events","9":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/564"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}