{"id":101512,"date":"2026-07-11T04:07:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T04:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/101512\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T04:07:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T04:07:12","slug":"tennis-coach-remembers-victim-killed-in-geneva-lake-boating-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/101512\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis coach remembers victim killed in Geneva Lake boating accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tennis coach remembers victim killed in Geneva Lake boating accident<\/p>\n<p>Tennis coach remembers victim killed in Geneva Lake boating accident<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisn.com\/news-team\/4719f071-193e-480a-a75b-04c746ff0423\" aria-label=\"Jasmine Franklin profile page\" class=\"css-15eikfp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1783742832_83_4719f071-193e-480a-a75b-04c746ff0423_1738172817.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Jasmine Franklin\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a>PLAINFIELD, Ill. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">Tennis coaches in Will County, Illinois, are remembering 10-year-old Kate Schmidt. She was one of three children who died after a boat capsized on Geneva Lake July 4 weekend. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">Schmidt played at Five Star Tennis Center. Her coaches describe her as a bright teammate who always had a smile and positive energy. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">&#8220;She was really absorbing life to the fullest as a 10-year-old could. She had an infectious smile and really had that it factor. She had so much potential not just as a tennis player but as a human being,&#8221; said Aaron Rusnak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tennis coach remembers victim killed in Geneva Lake boating accident Tennis coach remembers victim killed in Geneva Lake&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7],"tags":[50208,5678,50209,50206,65,49217,50204,8504,50207,50205,24834,50202,32082,13898,50203,14577],"class_list":["post-101512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-geneva","tag-10-year-old-kate-schmidt","tag-boat","tag-bright-teammate","tag-five-star-tennis-center","tag-geneva","tag-geneva-lake-boating-accident","tag-geneva-lake-july","tag-illinois","tag-positive-energy","tag-schmidt","tag-smile","tag-tennis-coach","tag-victim","tag-weekend","tag-will-county","tag-wisn"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116899377887081160","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}