Tag: tennis

Date Night Returns!

Roxanne and Gary Forrest enjoying time playing with Dennis and Norma Whitley

Donna Gillen Date night has returned to the PebbleCreek Tennis Club! On March 28, 16 players enjoyed a late afternoon of couples tennis. All had a very exhilarating time. The date nights are hosted by Jill and Jerry Santy. There will be one more date night in April, and it will be returning in the…

Swing into Spring!

Clarita Tom preparing to serve.

Donna Gillen After over a year of contemplating how to serve the members of the PebbleCreek Tennis Club (PCTC) in a fun yet safe manner, our tournaments director, Aquine Jackson, prepared a round-robin tournament for members on March 25. The tournament took much proactive thinking by Aquine, and the results were awesome. The participants expressed their…

The PebbleCreek Stingers Tennis Team

Schedules make it challenging to gather the 15-member team together. Starting from far left: Sande Nielson, Marty McAllister, Lynne Carlyle, Debbie Sayre, Barbara Camozzi, and Debbie Welsh (not pictured: Ms. Buzzer)

Donna Gillen What’s the buzz at the tennis courts this month? Well, PebbleCreek’s ladies 3.5 tennis team, the Stingers! The Stingers have had an incredible year so far. They are in first place in their league with the fortune of playing most of their games at home. Doing their part to keep everyone safe, all…

The PebbleCreek Stingers Tennis Team

Donna Gillen What’s the buzz at the tennis courts this month? Well, it’s PebbleCreek’s ladies 3.5 tennis team, the Stingers! The Stingers have had an incredible year so far. They are first place in their league, with the fortune of playing most of their games at home. Doing their part to keep everyone safe, all visiting…

PebbleCreek Tennis Club News and Reflections

Roxie Forrest We have a highly active and growing club amidst the changing environment we have become all too familiar with. Our club has been able to continue to operate but not without the board and members who have helped to keep tennis going throughout this pandemic. Currently, we have 311 members and have been consistent…

Tennis Player of the Month: Dale Taylor

Dale Taylor

Dennis Whitley It is not easy to live up to Dale Taylor’s standards. That’s because Dale has been a quality assurance director and auditor for his entire career, which continues today as a part-time lead auditor for companies seeking ISO 9000 certification. ISO 9000 is an international standard that demonstrates that a company or organization…

PebbleCreek Tennis: Dottie Kiley “The Rock”

Front center: Charlie Hunt, Dottie Kiley, and Susan Hunt. From left to right: Bert Miller, Sally Ward, Judy Gaines, Susie Malone, Donna Armbruster, Karen Lodico, Jo Terry, Jude Tarkowski, and Norma Whitley.

Norma Whitley On a beautiful fall day, the PebbleCreek Stingers tennis team caravanned to Dottie Kiley’s home for a visit. This moment has been a long time coming due to setbacks caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Dottie Kiley is the captain of the Stingers tennis team. This is not an easy job, since it requires…

Tennis Player of the Month: Dan Schimmelpfennig

Dan Schimmelpfennig

Dennis Whitley As a young man, tennis was not Dan Schimmelpfennig’s sport of choice. Dan was a 220 lb. high school football star who received multiple scholarship offers to play football in college. One of the scholarship offers he turned down was to the University of Alabama. No one knows if Dan would have been another…

Summer Tennis at PebbleCreek

Jo Terry, Norma Whitley, and Jude Tarkowski, out on the courts for some morning exercise.

Norma Whitley Following the safety guidelines put forth by the PCHOA, PebbleCreek Tennis Club members are finding time on hot summer mornings to beat the heat on tennis courts. Time with friends and plenty of water make the mornings enjoyable, while getting in some daily exercise to stay healthy. If you would like more information…

Tennis Player of the Month: JoAnne Terry

JoAnne Terry is PebbleCreek’s tennis player of the month.

Dennis Whitley If you saw JoAnne Terry on the tennis court, and most of us have, you’d expect her past to include high school tennis, college tennis, and USTA team play. That would all be wrong. Actually, being a wife, mother, and flight attendant for 43 years got in the way of devoting any serious…