{"id":5102,"date":"2014-09-23T22:57:54","date_gmt":"2014-09-24T05:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/?p=5102"},"modified":"2014-09-23T22:57:54","modified_gmt":"2014-09-24T05:57:54","slug":"isabella-bird-prepared-for-2015-tetherball-world-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/?p=5102","title":{"rendered":"Isabella Bird Prepared for 2015 Tetherball World Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\"tetherball\"<\/a>The 2015 Tetherball World Championships are coming to Stapleton this spring and are being hosted by Isabella Bird Elementary School. The Stapleton School won the bid over cities including Houston, Istanbul (Turkey), Bogota (Columbia) and Johannesburg (South Africa) among others. \u201cIn the end, the area offered all the things we were looking for,\u201d said Tetherball Committee chairman Joe Buenger. \u201cIt was close to the airport, they are building brand new, state of the art Tetherball courts, and there are plenty of hotels to accommodate the numbers we are expecting.\u201d\n\nOriginally, some residents questioned how Isabella Bird was using their giant space. \u201cI was thinking, \u2018do they really need three tetherball courts\u2019?\u201d asked resident Doug Clinton. \u201cI don\u2019t think most kids know the actual rules to tetherball, so I didn\u2019t think it was necessary.\u201d Chairman Buenger disagrees. \u201cTetherball is the nation\u2019s fastest growing sport,\u201d said Buenger. \u201cNo one plays baseball anymore, and kids and parents are getting scared out of football. So what\u2019s left are a bunch of hodge-podge catch-all sports like tetherball. We think it will be a high school sport by 2020.\u201d There are some residents who are not happy about the World Championships coming to their neighborhood. \u201cHow is it going to affect traffic?\u201d said Amy Steiner. \u201cWhere are they going to park? Where will the television cameras be placed? Will the playground still be open, or will the whole school be shut down? These are the kind of things residents have a right to know.\u201d\nHost Isabella Bird says they will do everything they can to make sure local residents are not inconvenienced. \u201cThis will be a great event, and the area residents do not need to be concerned about having any major discomforts,\u201d said local project leader Owen Dinnebier. \u201cWe have confidence in our plans and in the crew to get this job done so that it is a tremendous event with little impact on local residents.\u201d Dinnebier also says that the team is ahead of schedule in regards to construction and other preparation. \u201cWe will be ready for the games. This is not going to be another Sochi or have any of the issues Brazil had for the World Cup. We will be ready.\u201d The games will be held May 18th through the 24th with male and female divisions with several age groups. For tickets, just show up, as they are not expecting very many fans.\n]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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