Tag: PC Pickleball Club

The Heatwave Challenge

Pam Smith So you heard about the Ice Bucket Challenge a couple years ago, well this is called the HEATWAVE Challenge. A record breaking day here in Goodyear, Arizona where the temperature reached a dry heat of 120 degrees at 4:00 p.m. Even though it means good weather for the residents of Arizona, it is…

Memorial Day Pickleball Social

PebbleCreek’s Memorial Day Social Event was attended by 150 members. The 8:00 a.m. kick-off began with many of our members playing two against one with our 5.0 players. Beat the Pro – whoever scored three points first! Winning raffle tickets for door prizes! Continuous competitive and social drop-in play throughout the day. A skills and…

Pickleball Club Championship – men’s winners

Mens 3.0 Doubles

Pam Smith PebbleCreek Pickleball Club hosted its annual Club Championship tournament on March 29, 30 and 31, 2017. All skill levels 2.5 through 5.0. Men’s Doubles started the tournament on March 29 and the winners were as follows: Men’s 3.0 Doubles: 1st Dennis Ridgeway, Kim Reichert; 2nd Chuck Saunders, Steve McElroy; 3rd Scott Morlan, Scott…

PebbleCreek Pickleball Club hosted Chili Cookoff

From left: Shari Burns, Lauren Leonard, Linda Krueger, Karyn Davies, Tammy Woods, Pam Smith and Theresa Meyers

Pam Smith On January 22, 2017 PebbleCreek Pickleball Club hosted a Chili Cook-off. Free admission and lunch with a canned food donation for the Aqua Fria Food Bank. The cook-off was well attended with delicious chili selections of over 25 different pots! We awarded cash prizes for our five top chili winners. Great fun, great…

League Pickleball results

Pam Smith The Third League Pickleball Event February 4, 2017 PebbleCreek traveled to Tucson to play SaddleBrooke. Team PebbleCreek 74 wins to SaddleBrooke 46 wins Big thanks to the Team Captains Lou Drinovsky – Mixed Doubles Team, Jim Barbe – Men’s Doubles Team, Paula Handrup – Women’s Doubles Team Robinson Team Pickleball League Standings: 1st…

Labor Day Pickleball celebration at PebbleCreek

Team Beach Pickleball

Pam Smith The un-official end of summer holiday is more than packing up your swimsuit in PebbleCreek! A Labor Day social event kicked off at 7:30 a.m. on the Pickleball courts with fun and excitement for over 170 members of the PebbleCreek Pickleball Club with snacks, drinks, games and prizes for social and competitive play.…

Saturday Morning Pickle Gals

Mardelle Widmer and Lexi pose on the new rug.

Karen Bush Every Saturday morning a group of 16 to 24 PebbleCreek pickleball gals head to the courts and get together to play in a two hour round robin. Our main objective is to have fun! It’s a wacky and wonderful group of gals that are always game for all kinds of hijinks. On Halloween…

New Pickleball Club logo

During the annual Dinner-Concert, club secretary Jules Cardinale unveils the new club logo created by John Meyers and presents him with the first shirt bearing the new logo; photo by Doreen Cooke.

Pancho Epstein The PebbleCreek Pickleball Club has an exciting new logo from the mind of John Meyers. John described the creative process that went into the design that was written on Inkscape, a vector drawing program. “I was trying to think of what people in PebbleCreek would relate to. What is it they think of…

Pickleball Club ladders and novice instruction

Ladder Captain Lou Drinovsky and Master Novice Trainer Art House talk about the various paddles that are now available to players.

Pancho Epstein With most of the snowbirds comfortably landing in October, the PebbleCreek Pickleball Club’s winter agenda is off and running at warp speed. The biggest ongoing pickleball events are the weekly Ladies’ (Thursdays) and Gentlemen’s (Fridays) Ladders. Participating players are placed in groups of four according to rank. Each group plays three games to…