Tag: pickleball

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…

Picklegals wear pajamas for a good cause

Karen Bush On Saturday, November 5 the Picklegals wore their pajamas while playing pickleball and brought pairs of children’s pajamas to raise attention for the Pajama Program, an organization that provides comfort and love in the way of new pajamas and books to children in need as they are entering foster homes or shelters. Many…

Winter Wonderland Pickleball Social

Pam Smith Today over 200 club members enjoyed our annual Winter Wonderland Pickleball Social. We all brought an unwrapped toy as admission to the event. The toys are donated to the Goodyear kids to bring Christmas joy and a smile to their face. It was a beautiful day in PebbleCreek and we owe our thanks…

PebbleCreek Pickle Gals go pink

Karen Bush On October 22 the Saturday morning Picklegals went pink to support one of our members who was newly diagnosed with breast cancer and was due to have her very first chemotherapy treatment the following week. All 24 of us gals surprised her by showing up wearing pink. Our friend was very touched and…

Pickleball in Palm Springs

PickleBall in Palm Springs Trip; March 8 through 10, 2017 Price: $475 per person/double, $625 per person/single. On sale November 22 at 9:00 a.m. at the Activities Office Pickleball is one of the fastest growing sports in North America due to its emphasis on timing, balance and placement, rather than strength age or gender. The…

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.…

Kathy Hubert-Wyss wins gold

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…

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…