Tag: pickleball

Mary Lou wins medals at national and AZ tournament

Gold and silver medal winner Mary Lou Faraus .

Jim Furaus October and November were busy months for Pickleball. In September the Arizona Senior Olympics were held in Surprise. This was a qualification tournament to determine contestants for the National Senior Olympics next July in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Contestants must win a Gold, Silver or Bronze Medal in their event to qualify for the National…

Mike Crabtree: new Pickleball Club president

2015 President Mike Crabtree with wife Sandy. Both are active tournament players. Mike has big plans for the future of the club.

Pancho Epstein Mike Crabtree, active in innumerable club activities, a tournament player and 2014 vice president of the PebbleCreek Pickleball Club, was elected its new president for 2015. Elected along with Mike to the Board of Directors were Pat Murphy vice president, Gordon Cooper treasurer, Julie Cardinale secretary and Bob Oswald Member at Large, a…

New Courts Taking Shape

Pickleball Club instructor and tournament player Scott Johnson and Sue Johnson who is in charge of the skill level round-robins stand where the pad for the four new pickleball courts was poured.

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…

PebbleCreek women at Prescott Senior Games

Left to right: Sue Borgstrom, Karen Bush, Vicki Wolfe, Sara Mercer, Sally Melzow and Cidnee Lusk

Karen Bush PebbleCreek women were well represented at the second annual Prescott Senior Olympic Games Pickleball Tournament on August 1, 2014. Six gals, three teams, traveled up to Prescott and competed in the women’s doubles in two age brackets: 50 plus and 60 plus. The tournament was sponsored by the city of Prescott and held…