{"id":328927,"date":"2026-07-04T00:26:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T00:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/328927\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T00:26:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T00:26:34","slug":"lebanon-county-veteran-90-participates-in-pickleball-tournament-in-tampa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/328927\/","title":{"rendered":"Lebanon County veteran, 90, participates in pickleball tournament in Tampa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LEBANON COUNTY, Pa. (WHP) \u2014 A veteran from Lebanon County won a pickleball match during the National Veterans Golden Age Games in Tampa, Florida, last week. <\/p>\n<p>Rafael &#8220;Ray&#8221; Kozlusky, 90, was part of the oldest doubles team at the competition. His teammate was Richard Olwig, an 89-year-old veteran from St. Louis.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fortunately, we were able to win one game,&#8221; Kozlusky said. &#8220;It was a lot of fun playing.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Kozlusky served for eight years in the Navy as a radio operator, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs. He deployed twice in the Mediterranean Region as part of the sixth fleet&#8217;s Occupational Forces in Europe after World War II. <\/p>\n<p>Kozlusky also competed in air pistol, billiards, boccia and shuffleboard during the event. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LEBANON COUNTY, Pa. (WHP) \u2014 A veteran from Lebanon County won a pickleball match during the National Veterans&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328928,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-328927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}