{"id":224328,"date":"2016-03-31T06:00:51","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T20:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=224328"},"modified":"2016-03-31T06:00:51","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T20:00:51","slug":"king-queen-beach-set-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/king-queen-beach-set-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"King and Queen of the Beach set for Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_224331\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-224331\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/nmivapix-BW-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Joyner\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-224331\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-224331\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joyner<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The sands of Hyatt Regency Saipan beachside will turn into a royal battleground this Sunday as volleyball players team up to see who has the skills to be crowned King and Queen of the Beach.<\/p>\n<p>Northern Mariana Islands Volleyball Association has partnered with Stellar Marianas, Hyatt Regency Saipan, Landshark Lager, Aloha Maid, Caravan Restaurant, and Marianas Variety, to bring the initiative of 2015 Miss Marianas Jian Joyner back to the court and help raise some funds at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>The 2016 King and Queen of the Beach is a two-player male or female teams for 16 years old and up players with competition based on individual wins.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had done this before a while ago and we are excited to bring it back as an event,\u201d said NMIVA president Laurie Peterka.<\/p>\n<p>The players will rotate and based on the number of individual wins, participants will be crowned King and Queen of the Beach. The $25 per person registration includes a special edition King and Queen of the Beach t-shirt and delicious lunch from Caravan Restaurant.<\/p>\n<p>Winners will walk away with a crown, sash, flowers, beach chair thrones, gifts from Landshark, an island style lager, and Aloha Maid as well as gift certificates from Hyatt Regency Saipan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wanted to create a fun way to raise funds through the love of volleyball and I am very grateful for all our community partners and players coming together to make it possible,\u201d Joyner said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are inviting our community to come and enjoy the day watching the tournament and supporting NMIVA and Stellar Marianas.  Registration is on site at 8:30am, so if you would like to play, come and register,\u201d she added<\/p>\n<p>Information is available on the King and Queen of the Beach Facebook page as well as on NMIVA and Stellar Marianas Facebook pages. <strong>(PR)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sands of Hyatt Regency Saipan beachside will turn into a royal battleground this Sunday&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":224331,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[10617,233,1845,7618],"class_list":["post-224328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-caravan-restaurant","tag-hyatt-regency-saipan","tag-nmiva","tag-stellar-marianas-facebook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}