{"id":630117,"date":"2026-04-25T14:30:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T14:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/630117\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T14:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T14:30:12","slug":"jazzy-bags-national-basketball-prize-with-her-exemplary-sportsmanship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/630117\/","title":{"rendered":"Jazzy bags national basketball prize with her exemplary sportsmanship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The oldest and most important of sporting principles: \u201cIt\u2019s not whether you win or lose, but how you play the game\u201d, certainly applies to one young basketball representative star, Jazzy Gordon!<\/p>\n<p>The local junior recently earned the highly-prestigious \u201cBuilt Tough Award\u201d for her exemplary sportsmanship and character while playing with the NSW Country side at the Under 18 Nationals in Brisbane.<\/p>\n<p>Jazzy\u2019s selection for the award bested dozens of other top-line young women basketballers from around Australia at the national finals which were her third (and last) time representing the regional state side.<\/p>\n<p>A prodigy in this highly-competitive and demanding sport, Jazzy is a lifelong Dubbo Junior who has represented Dubbo Basketball since she was only nine!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe award is great recognition for all the work she has put in and the way she plays the game,\u201d a local basketball representative said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The oldest and most important of sporting principles: \u201cIt\u2019s not whether you win or lose, but how you&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":630118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-630117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=630117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}