Tag: pickleball

Pickleball Club Members are Fundraising

Jo Comstock’s window decal

Cynthia Schwartz Members of the PebbleCreek Pickleball Club overwhelmingly voted last year that the club would raise $500,000 to defray some of the costs for building 16 additional pickleball courts in our community. To date, the club has raised $290,000 through a variety of fundraising efforts. Tony Wells, chair of the fundraising committee, announced that…

Pickleball Volunteer/Player of the Month: Sherrill Mercer

Sherrill and Norm Mercer

Shirley Seymour Because of her passion and dedication to pickleball, Sherrill Mercer has been selected as this month’s PebbleCreek Pickleball (PCPB) Club Volunteer/Player of the Month. Sherrill has been an advocate for the beginner pickleball players in PebbleCreek. She is on the front line, introducing new players to the sport and to the club, taking…

Pickleball Players Excited About Plan for New Courts

Cynthia Schwartz Following the February PebbleCreek HOA meeting, the PC communications team published the following announcement: “Sixteen new pickleball courts are being planned for Tuscany Falls. Jack Sarsam, PebbleCreek HOA (PCHOA) Board President, made the announcement at the HOA monthly Board meeting on Wednesday, Feb. 19. Sarsam said that Robson Communities, Inc. (RCI) has agreed…

PC Pickleball Tournament Draws Record Crowds

Mike Crabtree (tournament co-director) reviewing scores with certified referees. (Left to right): Terry Brown, Randi Levenbaum, Mike Crabtree, Lynn Plesha, and Sandy Brown

Cynthia Schwartz In February, the PebbleCreek Pickleball (PCPB) Club hosted the fifth annual PebbleCreek Pickleball Tournament. The PCPB Club’s tournament is a USAPA (United States of America Pickleball Association) sanctioned tournament and is classified as a tier 2 event. Almost 500 players participated in 44 bracket events that included men’s, mixed, and women’s doubles. Matches…

Men are Climbing the Ladder on the Pickleball Courts

Cynthia Schwartz Starting in mid-October and running until April, more than a hundred men participate in the PebbleCreek Pickleball Men’s Ladder. Ladder is an event intended to provide competitive matches between players of similar abilities. Once a week, players in groups of four play a match of three games to 15 points. In the three…

The Greatest Show On Courts

Pancho Epstein To launch the fifth annual PebbleCreek Pickleball Tournament (Feb. 12-14), Goodyear Mayor Georgia Lord will deliver a welcoming address to the 500 participants from the USA and Canada. Then the country’s National Anthem will be sung and The Greatest Show on Courts will blast off. Singing the National Anthems will be Ken Porter,…

Pickleball Players Host Jingle Ball Rock – A FUNRaiser to Bring Joy to Families-in-Need

Cynthia Schwartz Pickleball players Sheri Sears and Chris Morlan were sharing stories about the neighborhoods that they lived in before moving to PebbleCreek. They realized that back home they both had experiences in giving a family a Christmas they never expected. Their memories sparked the idea to create Jingle Ball Rock, a FUNRaiser in PebbleCreek.…