{"id":8996,"date":"2012-08-21T17:51:24","date_gmt":"2012-08-21T07:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=8996"},"modified":"2012-09-11T19:48:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-11T09:48:00","slug":"orlyns-a-local-sporting-champ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2012\/08\/21\/orlyns-a-local-sporting-champ\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlyn&#8217;s A Local Sporting Champ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>August 21, 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to basketballer <strong>Orlyn Fisher<\/strong>, from Murgon, who has won a Federal grant to compete in the Wide Bay Basketball Competition.<\/p>\n<p>Orlyn is one of several applicants from the Wide Bay area who were successful under the funding program.<\/p>\n<p>Federal Member for Wide Bay, Warren Truss announced the latest round of successful applicants from the Australian Government\u2019s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ausport.gov.au\/participating\/schools_and_juniors\/local_sporting_champions\" target=\"_blank\">Local Sporting Champions program<\/a><\/strong> today.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is pleasing to see so many talented and ambitious young sporting men and women in our region, with a high number of skilled, dedicated and committed people applying for the grants. That also made awarding the grants all the harder, as there are only a few to be allocated in each funding round,&#8221; Mr Truss said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I congratulate the winners and wish each competitor well in their events.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Grants of $500 per individual and $3000 per team are available for people aged between 12 and 18 years to help meet the costs of participating in those events, including travel, equipment, uniforms, and accommodation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In order to be eligible to receive a Local Sporting Champions grant, applicants:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Must be aged 12 to 18 years (inclusive);<\/li>\n<li>Must be required to travel a distance of 250km or more, return.<\/li>\n<li>Be participating in an official national sporting organisation endorsed State or national sporting competition, or national school sport competition.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to basketballer Orlyn Fisher, from Murgon, who has won a Federal grant to compete in the Wide Bay Basketball Competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,6],"tags":[1149],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.11 - 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