Diya Godavarthi<\/a> from Colorado is showing that age is no barrier when it comes to chasing big dreams and helping others.<\/p>\nA shining tennis talent, Diya started playing at the age of six. Today, she is the No. 1 ranked player in Colorado for Girls 12U, No. 3 in the Intermountain region and already in the Top 100 nationally.<\/p>\n
Her skills have caught the attention of leading sponsors like Yonex and top tennis academies in Colorado and Florida. She even had the chance to train for a week at the world famous Rafa Nadal Academy in Spain.<\/p>\n
But for Diya, tennis is not just about winning matches. Through the Colossal Youth Athlete of the Year competition, she is raising funds for cancer research, a cause that is very close to her heart. She plays to honor friends who have bravely fought cancer, including some who are no longer here.<\/p>\n
With her passion, hard work and compassion, Diya is proving that true champions don\u2019t just play for trophies, they play to make a difference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eleven-year-old Diya Godavarthi from Colorado is showing that age is no barrier when it comes to chasing big…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[93948,99,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-152950","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-diya-godavarthi","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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