Brenda Weide A huge thank you to Kevin Hillstrom and all the coaches who helped with our Player Development classes this year. We appreciate all the time and effort that went into helping us become better pickleball players. Several of the referees said they saw a huge improvement in players’ skills used during the club…
The Men’s 55+ 4.5-5.0 team won the Arizona Pickleball Players League (APPL) State Championship for 2023. Captains are Alex Potapoff and Steve Schaefer, and team members are Greg Wellington, Howard Mendel, Kerry Krueger, Javier Barron, and, living outside PebbleCreek (PC), Todd Anderson, Brett Augsburger, and David Overmoyer. APPL league was started in 2012 here in…
MaryJo Wagner On March 25 your PebbleCreek Pickleball (PCPB) Club hosted their 4th annual Spring Fling event to usher in the new season. A delicious assortment of breakfast items was provided for the 200+ attendees with 19 fabulous volunteers coordinating food, decorations, and music to keep players and members entertained. All 20 pickleball courts were…
PebbleCreek’s biggest pickleball tournament of the year was a huge success. The 7th annual USAPA tournament hosted by your PCPB club was held on February 8 through 10, had the largest number of players in its history (549), and awarded 348 medals to the top three teams in each bracket (58) of women’s, men’s, and mixed…
MaryJo Wagner Get ready for PebbleCreek’s biggest pickleball event of the year! On Wednesday, Feb. 8 (Women’s Doubles), Thursday, Feb. 9 (Mixed Doubles), and Friday, Feb. 10 (Men’s Doubles) beginning at 8 a.m., your PebbleCreek Pickleball Club (PCPB) will be hosting our 7th annual USAPA Sanctioned Pickleball Tournament on our 20 dedicated court facility located…
Brenda Weide The PebbleCreek Pickleball Club hosted our annual Holiday Toy Drive for Goodyear children. This was our 7th year, and was bigger than ever! Martha Urbin brought her train, and Santa was there to get everyone’s Christmas wishes. Many elves came from the North Pole to help fill our train, serve breakfast, and help…
Nancy Popenhagen The PebbleCreek Pickleball Club, with almost 1,600 members, was very busy in November. The club held its first of several in-house PebbleCreek tournaments with 72 teams playing in the mixed doubles tournament. Held on Nov. 1, there was great play all day, with each team playing eight to nine games. In the end,…
Nancy Popenhagen The PebbleCreek Pickleball Club, with almost 1,600 members, was very busy in November. The club held its first of several in-house PebbleCreek tournaments with 72 teams playing in the mixed doubles tournament. Held on Nov. 1, there was great play all day, with each team playing eight to nine games. In the end,…
David Zapatka Last month we announced Major League Pickleball had arrived. High-profile individuals Drew Brees, James Blake, Lebron James, Draymond Green, Kevin Love, and a host of others invested in teams. The new Vibe Pickleball League was recently announced. The first high-profile team owner is Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks NBA basketball team.…
Nancy Popenhagen Pickleball Open Play system: In order to get the highest utilization from our overcrowded pickleball courts, we do not allow individual reservations. In place of reservations we use a system called Open Play. In Open Play, groups of four players rotate onto the court, play one game, and then rotate off as another group…