{"id":163017,"date":"2025-09-23T05:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T05:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/163017\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T05:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T05:00:09","slug":"nj-tennis-coach-celebrated-for-2500-wins-over-nearly-50-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/163017\/","title":{"rendered":"NJ tennis coach celebrated for 2,500 wins over nearly 50 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">HADDONFIELD, New Jersey (WPVI) &#8212; Jeff Holman, a tennis coach and high school counselor, has inspired generations of students at Haddonfield Memorial High School since 1976.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Holman, who played tennis in high school himself, began coaching the girls team in 1976. Two years later, he started coaching the boys team as well. Since then, he&#8217;s held that role for the better part of a half-century.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Recently, Holman tallied his 2,500th win across both teams. Students made posters and a plaque to celebrate his historic accomplishment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">As for Holman, his greatest prize is being surrounded by ambitious students who are not only passionate about tennis, but also about their future careers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Watch the video above to hear Holman&#8217;s story in his own words.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \"><a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/post\/pa-teen-jump-rope-star-competes-world-championship-japan\/17626384\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">RELATED: Pa. teen jump rope star competes at world championship in Japan<\/a><\/p>\n<p>16-year-old Zach Peckman has already set a national jump rope record and leaped across the world to compete in Kawasaki, Japan.<\/p>\n<p><br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HADDONFIELD, New Jersey (WPVI) &#8212; Jeff Holman, a tennis coach and high school counselor, has inspired generations of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[84493,84495,84494,49,48,1172,84492,42380,84491,84490,82,593],"class_list":["post-163017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-84493","tag-49-years","tag-500-wins","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-coach","tag-haddonfield","tag-high-school","tag-jeff-holman","tag-philly-proud","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}