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,…
Irene D’Aloisio A perfect week for dinking, lobbing and having fun — that’s what happened at the 4th Annual Norris Invitational Tournament which started on March 6 and went through March 9. Sun Lakes residents from all over the community gathered together at the Cottonwood pickleball courts for a great competition. The Sun Lakes Pickleball…
Our pickleball stars have done it again. Here are the latest medal winners from our own clubs right here in Sun Lakes: Dave Zapatka and Don Simmons, Silver, Level 5, Palm Creek, March Sheila Parkinson and Dianne Zimmerman, Silver, Level 4.5, Palm Creek, March JoAnn Zapatka and Spencer Roberts, Silver, Level 3.5, Grand Canyon –…
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…
Janet Myrick “This ain’t our first rodeo.” Eight teams competed in a pickleball skills tournament. All levels were part of each team. The skills included placement of serves, placement of return of serves, drop shots and dinks. Winners included: 1st Place Jim Berney, captain, plus Terry Clark, Scott Albin and Leslie Macadam; 2nd Place Chris…
December Pickleball Winners’ Corner Here are December’s Pickleball winners. It’s an honor to have these great players in our midst, and they should be recognized. Don’t forget to send in your info if you are or know about winners. Pictures are great too, but they must be at least two megapixels, and larger is much…
Janet Myrick Another year for our awesome EVIL (East Valley Interclub League) pickleball team captained by Jerry Pedderson and Todd Williams. Participating in this year’s league are teams from Trilogy, Ahwatukee, Cottonwood, Province, Solera and SunBird. IronOaks is represented with a Men’s Double Team and Mixed Doubles Team in Division One. Next year with the…
It’s time for Valentine’s Day, but the Sun Lakes Pickleball Club Cottonwood wants everyone to know what a great and giving time they had at their December ‘Tis the Season Pickleball Social. It was an all-day affair with outrageous holiday outfits and loads of fun on the courts. It was worth a trip to the…
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…
Janet Myrick On a perfect Friday afternoon, 60 members of our Robson Pickleball Team of Sun Lakes traveled to Pebblecreek in Goodyear for a fun pickleball social. Players playing in this social were from the three Sun Lakes communities. We had two teams of each level: 4.5 and above; 4.0; 3.5, 3.0, 2.5 men, women…