Janet Myrick The Sun Lakes Pickleball Club of IronOaks held its December social on Saturday afternoon, December 9. JoAnn Zapatka formed teams according to their birthdates (January birthdates with December, February with November, etc.) Each team played five matches, one game to 11. Prizes were given along with six raffle prizes. Evonne Jasnic received…
David Zapatka, USAPA rating committee member The Super Senior International Pickleball Association, SSIPA, became a reality last year when a group of us met at last November’s USAPA National tournament. SSIPA formed in 2016 to promote pickleball among our active senior (60+ years of age) population in this country and internationally. Our generation continues to…
Doug Williams In short, it’s an exciting, wildly-popular and fast-growing exercise game for active adult communities. A combination of tennis, badminton and table tennis, it’s played on a smaller court (with a slower, “whiffle- like” ball), so you don’t have to run so much! (Perfect for the, ahem, “senior” set.) In fact, nearly 70% of…
David Zapatka Pickleball in Sun Lakes has exploded the past eight years. From the first temporary courts in Cottonwood/Palo Verde in 2008 to the first Sun Lakes permanent courts in IronOaks in 2011 to the six courts in Sun Lakes Country Club in 2016, Sun Lakes pickleball players are now 700+ strong. With so many…
Peggy Martin In honor of the NCAA Basketball Tourney, and especially the NCAA Final Four game here in the Valley, the Sun Lakes Pickleball Club Cottonwood (SLPCC) held its annual March Madness Social on Monday, March 27, 2017. Player teams were organized much like the qualifying basketball tournaments held around the country – East, West,…
Sun Lakes Pickleball Club, Cottonwood’s 4th annual Norris Invitational Tournament will be held from March 6-10 at the Cottonwood pickleball courts from 8:00 a.m. until 6:00 p.m. This is the biggest and best tournament of the year, and we’d like to invite you all to come watch. The entrants are not just club members. For…
Each month, Sun Lakes Pickleball Club Cottonwood will publish the winners of local tournaments in the Splash and non-local tournaments, too! It’s an honor to have these great players in our midst and they should be recognized. We need to know about them though, so if you know of any, please let us know, too! Pictures…
Irene D’Aloisio, Publicity Once again, the Sun Lakes Pickleball Club Cottonwood (SLPCC) hosted the Norris Invitational Tournament which was held from March 7-10 at the Cottonwood pickleball courts. The tournament was open to all Sun Lakes residents. A double elimination event, it had both mixed doubles and doubles with five ratings categories. The first place…
David Zapatka This gold medal was one for the ages. Sheila Parkinson and Dianne Zimmerman went undefeated the entire day, didn’t even lose a game. They defeated top-seeded Jan Yu/Lisa Smith 11-9, 11-5 in a semifinal match in the winners’ bracket, then beat second-seeded Jeni James/Jamie Knoph 11-4, 11-7. In the gold medal match the…
Irene D’Aloisio, Publicity Sun Lakes Pickleball Club Cottonwood (SLPCC) hosted their first Pickleball Expo at the Saguaro Room in Cottonwood on October 28, an event which will become an annual affair. The reason for the Expo? To assist club members in improving their games and strategy by getting information from experts, as well as to…