Just before Father's Day, a father concluded the first phase in the fulfillment of his son's dream.
Last week Thursday, Patrick Munroe drove to High Rock to give out certificates to the kids who participated in the creation of Munroe Tennis Academy in East End, Grand Bahama.
Over 30 participants received certificates for their participation and completion of the course, fulfilling a part of Levaughn Munroe's dream of establishing a tennis academy throughout Grand Bahama.
"You see Levaughn was not just a dreamer, he decided to take action," said Pat Munroe, during the closing ceremonies for the prize giving on Thursday.
"Today, the dream has become a reality. Just look and you can see that Munroe Tennis Academy is alive and well. Yes, these kids are the proof; the seed is planted and the dream is alive."
Coach Patrick Munroe took his son's dream to East End in February of this year and concluded the first phase last week.
Lessons, which were free to the kids, were given every other Saturday at the Grand Bahama Sailing Club's tennis courts.
The tennis academy will begin another round of training in September and will run through to June of next year.
The idea of hosting the program in East End was to give those kids an opportunity to learn the sport of tennis without having to try and find a ride all the way to Freeport.
Coach Munroe noted having kids all throughout Grand Bahama learn the sport of tennis was his son's passion and his lifelong dream. Levaughn wanted to help Bahamian kids get an opportunity to not only learn tennis, but to use the sport as a means of obtaining college scholarships.
Since his untimely death in 2009, Levaughn's father has taken up the mantel and has set out to fulfil his son's dream.
"We knew when we started the academy in East End we would want to see it through, and I'm so thankful to so many people who helped that to become a reality," said Pat Munroe.
"We started and completed the first phase."
Munroe said that it was possible thanks to a number of people, including Member of Parliament for High Rock, Kenneth Russell; president of the Grand Bahama Sailing Club, Chris Paine and others who worked with the kids.
The program was supposed to involve all four schools in the East End, including Sweetings Cay, High Rock, McLean's Town and East End Primary.
However, due to problems getting over each session, Sweeting's Cay school could not participate.
Munroe says he still has plans of doing a program with the students of Sweeting's Cay.
