Judy Onken Remember Bixbie? He was the golf ball who lived in my bag and played very erratically. His only redeeming feature was that he enjoyed the company of Cottonwood Ladies Golf Association members and was delighted each week to be part of fun and laughter and friendly competition. It is with deep sorrow that…
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Sports, January 2024
Don’t Fall, Don’t Drown, Don’t Walk
Peggy Martin If you are as familiar with these coaching tips as our Colleen Newman, Sun Lakes Pickleball Club Cottonwood (SLPCC) member, then you may have watched or participated in a triathlon, considered to be one of the most difficult one-day sporting events anywhere! In one day, you swim first for 2.4 miles, then bike…
Sports, January 2024
Fill a Truck
Lorri Morgan The Cottonwood Pickleball Club supported this wonderful event to help out the students and their families of Hamilton High School. The drive was spearheaded by our own Charlotte Nichol, and it seems the whole membership rallied behind her. Charlotte said she received $350 in cash and two pickup trucks full of food and…
Sports, January 2024
IronOaks Ladies Pool League—We’ve Switched to Mondays
Judy Wolthausen Our league, which plays weekly in the Billiards Room in the Oakwood Country Club building, is over 20 years old and, to my knowledge, has always played on Tuesday mornings. Unfortunately, that has always prevented the golfers and pickleball players from also playing in our league. Well, we have now decided to switch to…
Sports, January 2024
Lady Sluggers Are Ready for Opening Day
Larry Wolfe Our Lady Sluggers senior softball team opens their 2024 season at home at the Field of Dreams on Wednesday, Jan. 3. Their opponent on opening day will be the View Point Gems. The first pitch is scheduled for noon. The Sluggers are members of the 10-team Valley of the Sun League. The remainder of…
Sports, January 2024
Play Your Best Pool: How to Get Your Pool Game in Shape
Johnny Henson, Professor Pool Are you looking for an easy way to get your game in shape to move your game to the next level? To have a great game there are no quick fixes.A new cue tip or even a new cue might make you feel, for a short period of time, that your game…
Sports, January 2024
Relishing Pickleball: Pickleball Comes to U.S. Universities
David Zapatka Pickleball continues to grow in popularity around the country. It’s now making its way into U.S. universities. The leading example of this is my friend, Jarrod Smith, coach of Drury University’s men’s and women’s tennis teams, and in 2024, coach of Drury’s co-ed pickleball team in Springfield, Mo. In August, Drury announced the…
Sports, January 2024
PVLGA News and Happenings
Susan Lamb Goodbye 2023 and hello 2024! Wow, that went so fast, and here we are ready to start a new season of golf activities with 140 members of which 24 are new this year. We wrapped up 2023 with our yearly Christmas Holiday Scramble and Luncheon. The scramble was called “18 holes of Christmas”…
Sports, January 2024
Softball Player Profile: Dennis Henderson
Larry Wolfe Music has been in Dennis Henderson’s DNA since the third grade when he started playing the string bass in a youth orchestra. By the time he was a sophomore at Arcadia (Calif.) High School, he was playing the electric bass guitar in his own rock ‘n’ roll band. He then attended Pasadena Arts College…
Sports, January 2024
Scorching HOT on the Pickleball Courts
Lorri Morgan We could be talking about that “firefight” at the NVZ (Non-Volley Zone) or that smoking passing shot down the line, but in this case, we’re talking about our Chili Cook-Off social event held on Dec 2. Holiday-dressed members showed up in hordes to sample and vote on the 12 pots full of different…