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Congressman Joel Pritchard, Barney McCallum, and Bill Bell invented the game of Pickleball one summer afternoon in 1965 on Bainbridge Island, WA. In Barney's own words, here is the story, along with views of the original (and oldest) pickleball courts in the world.
Friday, March 18, 2016
Interview with Ben Sanders – Sequim Picklers - Videoblogging 206
Ben Sanders, Sequim Picklers board member, talks about membership, activities and gives a PickleBall playing tip.
Transcript Excerpt
Hi my name is Ben Sanders. I’m director of court operations for the Sequim Picklers in Sequim, Washington. We are presently at the Boys and Girls Club which we rent on weekends for indoor play. When it it raining, which it is doing now. So we have an indoor venue.
We have a hundred and thirty-four members at present. We would love to have anyone in the Sequim area, even on the peninsula, join us. We have several people from Port Townsend and numerous people from Port Angeles that come to play with us and are members of our club. And we’d love to have you.
We play Pickleball. You see the venue behind me. We end up with between 25 and 35 people on Saturdays and Sundays each day. And then we play seven days a week. That is Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 9 o’clock in the morning till noon. Tuesdays and Thursdays from three o’clock until five. And on Tuesdays and Thursdays, at three o’clock, we also has free instruction for anyone, member or non-member, to come and learn how to play the game of Pickleball.
Jack Olmsted, Videoblogging 206: How do you become a member?
Ben: You can come to any of our events seven days a week, Monday though Friday, plus Saturdays and Sundays indoor at the Boys/Girls Club and at any of those events we will have cards ready for you to sign for membership.
Membership is not very expensive, it is a little over buck a month. So, you’re at fifteen dollars a year for membership. We will then explain what we are doing. We are in the process, right now, of building our own courts that will be at Carrie Blake Park near the dog park. We are looking to build 12 courts ourselves. The city has chipped in.
We have raised well over $116,000 ourselves. So that we can end up with a state-of-the- art facility for members to play at and we will also open it up to the public."
Wednesday, March 9, 2016
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The first edition of Pickleball Magazine is awesome. Just my 2 cents.
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Tuesday, March 8, 2016
The Pickleball Palace – A Private Indoor Pickleball Court |
"While searching for the most beautiful pickleball courts in Washington State, we received a call from Terri Ross in Port Ludlow. She confessed about her addiction to pickleball, and, she told us that she had built her own indoor pickleball court and christened it the “Pickleball Palace!”
Can you be any more of a fan of pickleball than Terri Ross? Terri loves to play pickleball. She played with her mother 30 years ago. As pickleball has grown in popularity, the Port Ludlow Resort built some beautiful outdoor pickleball courts. Since Terri and her husband built an indoor tennis court for resort members to keep playing tennis in the winter, they were asked, once again, if they might consider building an indoor pickleball court as well.
This request was what spurred their imagination to consider building an indoor pickleball court. They had land next to their house, so they scraped off the existing building and began to plan."
Read More: The Pickleball Palace – A Private Indoor Pickleball Court
Thursday, March 3, 2016
Wednesday, March 2, 2016
Friday, January 22, 2016
Minutes of the Community Junior Tennis Program January 9, 2016 Meeting
First, thank you so much for attending the meeting and contributing to organizing and planning this year's junior tennis program. Attending were: Justine, Terry, Ellen, Isabelle, Della, Stephanie, Jennifer, Sam, Bill, James, Mindy, Sven, and Damon.
My apologies for the excessive length of the meeting. In the future, meetings will divided into more defined subject matter.
AGENDA
1. Overview of 2015 programs: promoted the sport of tennis, and provided tennis related activity throughout the summer for our junior tennis community.
2. Goals for 2016 programs: to continue those programs and events, expand upon them, and make them more efficient by providing tennis opportunities for our kids and the community -- at no, or minimal, cost to the kids.
3. Financial report: from donations, sponsors, and contributors, there is a total of $3,095.96 in the Junior Community Tennis Program Fund. $2,500 was from an anonymous donor. That is an excellent start to the programs being planned for this year. In order to support this year's events, donations regarding water, snacks, administrative supplies will still be solicited. The most significant anticipated expenditures would be for balls, T-shirts, and trophies -- $200, $450, and $500, respectively. Renting a port-a-potty could cost another $100. Medals for participating in the Tennis Academy could cost about $100. Whether trophies or medals be awarded for winners and second and third places, could run another $150 to $500. Support for just the tennis academy, the tournament, and the ladder challenge could cost between $1,500 and $1,850. It could go higher depending upon ball replacement needs and what items are actually donated. I like to change out the balls that are used for lessons once a quarter. There will also be a cost for a tennis family picnic.
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