{"id":5424,"date":"2019-05-22T16:45:59","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T20:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter\/?page_id=5424"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:45:59","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T20:45:59","slug":"tennis-ace-evert-on-campus","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-spring2019\/along-the-walk\/tennis-ace-evert-on-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis Ace Evert on Campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5426\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5426\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-spring2019\/files\/2019\/05\/web_SMS_4163.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-5426\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-spring2019\/files\/2019\/05\/web_SMS_4163.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-spring2019\/files\/2019\/05\/web_SMS_4163.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-spring2019\/files\/2019\/05\/web_SMS_4163-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-spring2019\/files\/2019\/05\/web_SMS_4163-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-spring2019\/files\/2019\/05\/web_SMS_4163-1024x684.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5426\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anne Parmenter leads &#8220;A Conversation with Chris Evert&#8221; at Trinity College as part of the college&#8217;s celebration of 50 years of coeducation. Photo by Shana Sureck<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>To kick off Women\u2019s History Month\u2014which this year coincided with Trinity\u2019s celebration of 50 years of coeducation\u2014women\u2019s tennis great Chris Evert joined Trinity Field Hockey Head Coach Anne Parmenter on March 1 in Mather Hall\u2019s Washington Room for a wide-ranging conversation about the evolution of women\u2019s roles in sports and in society. Evert also met in a small-group setting with members of the Bantam men\u2019s and women\u2019s tennis teams and other student-athletes.<\/p>\n<p>Evert, whose professional tennis career began in 1972, reached 34 Grand Slam singles finals\u2014more than any other player in the history of professional tennis. Ranked No. 1 in the world for five straight years, Evert retired at the 1989 U.S. Open and in 1995 was unanimously inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame. Today, she serves as a tennis analyst for ESPN; publishes&nbsp;<em>Tennis Magazine<\/em>; co-owns the Evert Tennis Academy in Boca Raton, Florida, where she is active in coaching and mentoring student-athletes;&nbsp;and raises funds through Chris Evert Charities to improve the lives of at-risk children and families in Florida.&nbsp;She also is chairperson of the Board of Directors of the USTA Foundation, which works to change lives through tennis and education.<\/p>\n<p>Parmenter, who recently completed her 18th year as Trinity\u2019s head field hockey coach, was inducted into the National Field Hockey Coaches Association (NFHCA) Hall of Fame&nbsp;in January 2019.<\/p>\n<p>View more photos from the event <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/54097044@N03\/sets\/72157703853024512\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">on Flickr<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/54097044@n03\/sets\/72157703853024512\" title=\"Chris Evert March 2019 by BantamSports, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/7892\/47291018011_dc976d6531.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"302\" alt=\"DSC03557\"><\/a><script async src=\"https:\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5wbxytvlQSM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To kick off Women\u2019s History Month\u2014which this year coincided with Trinity\u2019s celebration of 50 years of coeducation\u2014women\u2019s tennis great Chris Evert joined Trinity Field Hockey Head Coach Anne Parmenter on March 1 in Mather Hall\u2019s Washington Room for a wide-ranging conversation about the evolution of women\u2019s roles in sports and in society. Evert also met &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-spring2019\/along-the-walk\/tennis-ace-evert-on-campus\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tennis Ace Evert on Campus&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"parent":1466,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-spring2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5424"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-spring2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-spring2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-spring2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-spring2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-spring2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5424\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-spring2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-spring2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}