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,…
Cynthia Schwartz PebbleCreek Pickleball (PCPB) Club players celebrated the start of the official Pickleball fall season with dancing and a buffet dinner on the Eagle’s Nest Patio. Bob Chester, President of the PCPB Club, welcomed players and said, “Thanks to all for another huge crowd at our Fall Season Kickoff Party! We are looking forward…
The Pickleball Club was busy in October and November. Pickleball players have a new pony wall outside Court 17, safeguarding eager players from rolling down the hill when retrieving balls that were hit over the fence. Players on courts 9-12 are happy to see more canvas shades helping to block the setting sun that was…
On October 5 the Pickleball Club began its winter schedule of events by starting with this season’s first TGIF Night Social Play. Every Friday from 4:00 p.m.–7:00 p.m. club members bring snacks to share and several of the courts are open for social play. Players at all levels play together. It’s a great way for…
Kathy Hubert-Wyss is the winner of the Dr. Pepper mountain bike and helmet donated by our new neighborhood Burger King on McDowell. Kathy had just been presented with her Gold Medal for her win in the Women’s Doubles Skill Group 2.5, then her name was drawn in the raffle on the last day of the…
Pancho Epstein At the October 11 annual Pickleball Club meeting the membership voted in a new Executive Committee for 2016. Elected were Pat Murphy, president, Fred Biancardi, vice-president, Ann Faber, officer-at-large, Bonnie Relic, secretary and Renee deLassus, treasurer. The meeting took place in the Tuscany Falls Ballroom with approximately 150 members attending. The members often…
Pancho Epstein You’ll jump and shout to the music of Bill Haley, Roy Orbison, Ricky Nelson, Glen Campbell, Beach Boys, Beatles, Chubby Checker, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, the Everly Brothers and, of course, Elvis at the third annual PebbleCreek Pickleball Club Welcome Back Dinner Concert from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. on Sunday, October 25. Performing…
Pancho Epstein On May 1 Alex Potapoff, in the final Gentlemen’s Ladder match of the 2014-2015 PebbleCreek Pickleball Club season, ran away with the championship. Potapoff scored a perfect 45 points against 34 for Rick Reed, 32 for Scott Johnson and 31 for Bill Pardue. A crowd of 74 members and one dog on a…
Pancho Epstein October 26 was a beautiful, warm Sunday. The Arizona Cardinals had just upset the Philadelphia Eagles. Then the real action began. PebbleRock opened the second annual PebbleCreek Pickleball Club Concert with the classic song Old Time Rock and Roll and from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. that’s exactly what approximately 400 club members and…
Pancho Epstein On a sunny morning, preceded by a stormy evening, the pad for the first four of twelve new pickleball courts at PebbleCreek was created. On September 5, promptly at 6:00 a.m., the concrete began to flow and by 10:00 a.m. the job was ready for the sander. By noon the forms were being…