{"id":229183,"date":"2025-09-15T16:52:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T16:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/229183\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T16:52:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T16:52:14","slug":"charleston-renames-tennis-center-after-peggy-bohne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/229183\/","title":{"rendered":"Charleston renames tennis center after Peggy Bohne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cPeggy is Ms. Tennis in Charleston,\u201d said Bill Sharpe, former anchor for Live 5 and another driving force behind the name change.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s also an accomplished flutist. She played with the Charleston Symphony \u2014 \u201cbefore they got good,\u201d she added. Now, she plays in the Summerville Orchestra and the Charleston Flute Choir.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI spent my life in a short, white skirt, or a long, black one,\u201d Bohne joked.<\/p>\n<p>She has traded the white ensemble for an official\u2019s polo and khakis as she calls more matches than she plays.<\/p>\n<p>Bohne began taking tennis lessons as a child at the College of Charleston, where she went on to play on the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DM0cyPvASsP\/\" rel=\"noopener\">college\u2019s first women\u2019s tennis team<\/a>. This summer, that team celebrated its 50th anniversary.<\/p>\n<p>When she was about 12, a coach encouraged her to enter the city\u2019s annual championship tournament. She doesn\u2019t remember how she finished, but what stuck with her was a love for the sport.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I had a wonderful, happy career with the city,\u201d she said. \u201cOne of my favorite things about my job was to see the twinkle in the children&#8217;s eye when they won a trophy or when they came bouncing in the door. And I hope that we will continue to do things for children, and I want the Charleston Tennis Center to continue to be a haven for the children of our community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bohne now passes her days as a math tutor \u2014 her college degree was in elementary education. That spark when a child solves an equation is reminiscent of smashing the ball just right, she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You don&#8217;t replace Miss Peggy Bohne,\u201d said Councilman Keith Waring, who represents part of West Ashley.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust thank God she came our way and she was in our community,\u201d Waring continued before the council unanimously voted to rename the tennis center in her honor.<\/p>\n<p>The city is working on new signage. A date has not been set for its unveiling.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cPeggy is Ms. Tennis in Charleston,\u201d said Bill Sharpe, former anchor for Live 5 and another driving force&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":229184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[14199,123767,62,1464,67,132,68,123766],"class_list":{"0":"post-229183","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-charleston","9":"tag-peggy-bohne","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-west-ashley"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115209354872582782","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}