Susie Anderson The tennis board members serve two years. This December will be the end of Maggie Eggleston’s term as treasurer. I interviewed her and this is what she has to say: “I moved to Arizona in 1977 and worked for APS for 32 years. I came to PebbleCreek in 2004 but didn’t start playing…
Susie Anderson Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquility. Billie Jean King – Was she at our mixer last month? Some big babies escaped the summertime heat in July and August. But some of us like tennis so much we will play in all kinds of…
Susie Anderson We call him by many names: Big Cheese, Prez, Grand Poobah, Supreme Highness, Hey You, Chief, Honey, King of Tennis, Dad and mostly friend. Jerry Santy is the hardest working and playing 82 year old that I know. I interviewed Jerry to capture his words of wisdom before he steps down from his…
Susie Anderson “Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you’re too damned old to do anything about it,” said Jimmy Connors. But he hasn’t been to PebbleCreek, has he? The great thing about our tennis is that there is something for everyone and every level. From 55 to…
In a May 14 ceremony at the Goodyear Fire Department, Chuck Kesting was honored with a life-saving award for his part in resuscitating Lew Geller on the tennis court on March 25. While playing tennis, Lew suddenly collapsed on the court and lost consciousness and stopped breathing. Chuck was playing on the same court and…
Susie Anderson “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can,” said Arthur Ashe and that’s how we feel in PebbleCreek. The PebbleCreek Tennis Club is looking for good women and men to join us! We know there are more of you out there that have the desire to play. There are…
Susie Anderson Wishing you the luck of the Irish on and off the tennis court this March. The second half of January turned out to be perfect tennis weather. Our social in January was the Sweet 16 in honor of the New Year 2016. We had 92 people involved in another fun rotation on the…
Susie Anderson Cheers to you, a new year and all the opportunities in front of us! The effects of the El Nino weather pattern have cut into our tennis for several days in the first part of January. We are hoping for dry courts for our Sweet 2016 social and matches. The December Christmas Party…
Rana Cukierski Happy and healthy New Year to all! Our November 19 social was a busy day! We started at 8:30 a.m. check-in with the Prince representative Amanda Craddock who provided many demo tennis racquets for our players to try. She gave out several gifts for our raffles as well as a pair of tennis…
Rana Cukierski Halloween was a barrel of laughs at our Saturday social! Choosing the winners of the costume contest was difficult. We ended up with four contestants that were most creative! The social/tournament had a huge turnout as 88 members attended. John Flynn organized another fun format with 60 players. 32 women and 28 men…