{"id":3105,"date":"2021-07-27T10:09:46","date_gmt":"2021-07-27T09:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/spskent\/?p=3105"},"modified":"2021-07-27T10:09:46","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T09:09:46","slug":"court-in-the-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/spskent\/2021\/07\/27\/court-in-the-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Court in the act:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">From playing the trumpet to working at Wimbledon with First-year SOPHIE KITSON<\/p>\n<p>Not content with filling her extra-curricular life at Kent with both music and sporting activities, first-year Forensic Science student and trumpeter,\u00a0<strong>Sophie Kitson,<\/strong>\u00a0could recently been spotted on the courts at Wimbledon, where she has been working these past three weeks as a line judge.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-10700 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/files\/2021\/07\/214664629_843184066634604_2746004653256313704_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"328\" height=\"438\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When not playing with the Women\u2019s Cricket Team at the University, Sophie can also be found amongst the trumpet-sections of the Concert Band and Big Band, but lately swapped her instrument for a smart blazer and the opportunity to act as a line judge at this year\u2019s Championship.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-10701\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/files\/2021\/07\/215435513_863449767886790_2102365510030099028_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" \/>\u201cHaving played tennis since I was three years old and coached for the past couple of years,\u201d reflects Sophie, \u201cI was given the opportunity to attend a line umpire course in Loughborough at the beginning of May. Upon passing the course I became a qualified LTA official. Just a couple of days after the course I was told I\u2019d been selected to line umpire at the Nottingham Trophy, Wimbledon qualifying and the Wimbledon main draw! This past month has been slightly surreal, working on court with some of the best players in the world! And getting to put on the Ralph Lauren line umpire uniform and walk onto court at Wimbledon for the first time was slightly nerve-wracking but an absolutely amazing experience. I even had the chance to be on Court 12 (a semi-show court) twice in the two weeks; having never had a crowd that big and seeing yourself on BBC iPlayer was pretty cool!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations, Sophie, on what must have been a memorable experience \u2013 we hope you\u2019re all \u2018set\u2019 to play in the trumpet-section again in September\u2026<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-10702 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/files\/2021\/07\/212214490_1219458721816284_1711393459267824818_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"880\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Re-purposed from the Music Matters Blog: https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/<\/p>\n<ul class=\"kent-social-links\"><li><a href='http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/spskent\/2021\/07\/27\/court-in-the-act\/&amp;t=Court in the act:' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-facebook' title='Share via Facebook'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=Court in the act:%20https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/spskent\/2021\/07\/27\/court-in-the-act\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-twitter' title='Share via Twitter'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/spskent\/2021\/07\/27\/court-in-the-act\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-google-plus' title='Share via Google Plus'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&amp;url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/spskent\/2021\/07\/27\/court-in-the-act\/&amp;title=Court in the act:' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-linkedin' title='Share via Linked In'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='mailto:content=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/spskent\/2021\/07\/27\/court-in-the-act\/&amp;title=Court in the act:' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-email' title='Share via Email'><\/i><\/a><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From playing the trumpet to working at Wimbledon with First-year SOPHIE KITSON Not content with filling her extra-curricular life at Kent with both music and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/spskent\/2021\/07\/27\/court-in-the-act\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40702,"featured_media":3106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[244599,124,130363,28766],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/spskent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3105"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/spskent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/spskent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/spskent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40702"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/spskent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/spskent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3107,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/spskent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3105\/revisions\/3107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/spskent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/spskent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/spskent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/spskent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}