Pancho Epstein More than 100 PebbleCreek Pickleball Club members, on July 4, showed up for the tenth annual Share Your Paddle Extravaganza, which is as much social as competitive. All members played at least three games in a six game schedule, always with different partners. It’s another way that our club encourages friendship. Between games, members,…
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 Gale Leach went from being a technical writer on how medical equipment should be used to writing how paddles should be used in the award winning popular book, The Art of Pickleball: Techniques and Strategies for Everyone, soon to be in its fifth edition. In between she was an English teacher, retail buyer,…
Pancho Epstein Under sunny Arizona skies, the PebbleCreek Pickleball Club’s first annual Skill-Level Ladies’ and Skill-Level Gentlemen’s Doubles Tournament was a roaring success. More than 600 people attended the event held March 25 and 26. Opening day action began with PebbleCreek Pickleball Club founder and first club President Grover Lumbard and HOA President John Kiekbusch…
Pancho Epstein More than 150 PebbleCreek Pickleball Club members showed up for the January 24 Chili Tasting Social (Get Chili in January). The big winner was the Agua Fria Food Bank. Club members donated hundreds of cans of food to this worthy organization. Beginning at 10:30 a.m. the crock pots were set up and 15…
Pancho Epstein The PebbleCreek Pickleball Club winter schedule is blasting ahead. The January schedule was filled with activities including the super successful 4WinTournament, a mixed doubles event that ran approximately four hours. Forty teams competed in the January 11 competition. The medalists were as follows: Gold: Sheri/Dick Burns; Sherry/Tony Gonzales; Linda/Bill Pardue; Jill Lewis/Pat Murphy;…
Judy Hauger Silver medalists from PebbleCreek at Nationals (Sun City Festival, November 2014; Bill Pardue and Craig Hauger
The National Pickleball Tournament was held this year at Robson Ranch in Casa Grande, Arizona November 8 through 16. There were close to 1000 participants from across the U.S.A. and Canada. Marylou won the Gold in the 70 plus Mixed Doubles with partner Bob Youngren from California and the Silver Medal with Beverly Youngren, Bob’s…
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…
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…