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.…
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…