Jane Steele If you drove by the pickleball courts on Wednesday, February 10 you saw all the activity going on with our 404 tournament players and more than 200 spectators. Everyone was greeted at the front gate by our volunteers and directed to the courts. There they found coffee and the delicious baked goods made…
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…
Thanks to the generosity of the PebbleCreek Pickleball Club, Therapy Paws received an early Christmas present this past December! The Pickleball Board presented a check for $500 to several members of the Therapy Paws Board on December 22. Therapy Paws is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization focused on supporting therapy dog teams and working with various…
Come join the fun and excitement at the PebbleCreek Pickleball Club USAPA (USA Pickleball Association) sanctioned tournament on February 10, 11 and 12. We expect to have 250 to 300 players in this tournament from our club and many other clubs from around the USA. Some of the top pickleball players will be here. This…
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 The PebbleCreek Pickleball Club has an exciting new logo from the mind of John Meyers. John described the creative process that went into the design that was written on Inkscape, a vector drawing program. “I was trying to think of what people in PebbleCreek would relate to. What is it they think of…
Pancho Epstein With most of the snowbirds comfortably landing in October, the PebbleCreek Pickleball Club’s winter agenda is off and running at warp speed. The biggest ongoing pickleball events are the weekly Ladies’ (Thursdays) and Gentlemen’s (Fridays) Ladders. Participating players are placed in groups of four according to rank. Each group plays three games to…
Pancho Epstein Phoenix Arizona’s popular morning TV show on channel 3 (KTVK), Good Morning Arizona wanted to learn a bit about pickleball. So on August 18 the station sent Photo-Journalist Victor Ochoa and popular TV Reporter Kylee Cruz to our 20 courts to learn about our favorite sport. Four segments were shot: live ones for…
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 The history is a bit muggy; now trampled under the play of more than 1,000 members. What is certain is that on June 8, 2007, according to an article in the July 2007 issue of the PebbleCreek Post, the first PebbleCreek Pickleball Club membership-social was held in the Chianti Room at Tuscany Falls.…