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Reminders and Lost Paddle

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Dear Club Members,

Reminders:
– This afternoon and evening is our Snowbird Farewell play/potluck.  We play at Marinette in the afternoon from 4-5 or 5:30 and then meet up again for potluck dinner at Bell Social Hall at 6pm.  Bring your favorite dish and drink.
– Clinics end this week until Autumn.  A huge thank you to Lis Smoot and all the kind/helpful volunteer instructors that gave us useful advice and made us better players.  Let’s keep applying our lessons during spring and summer play where ever we are.
“It is up to each of us to make it fun”.

Lost Paddle Notice:
Barbara Heywood

On Wednesday morning, someone mistakenly took my paddle. I was talking in the walkway between courts 13 and 16 with my paddle resting in the wire fence. When I finished talking, my paddle was gone. However, there was a
paddle of a similar colour to mine close to where I was standing. My paddle is a two tone blue Selkirk Epic 30PXL. If the person who has my paddle could e-mail or phone me, I would be very grateful.

Here Comes Friday

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Aside from clinics today, Thursday, for Advanced Beginner and Combined Beginner/Advanced Beg.(see website under Skill-Clinics), we are going to have a busy Friday.  Here is the line up:
Friday Ladder 8:00am Marinette
Membership Meeting 1:00pm Marinette Auditorium.  We will review past meeting, financials, facility improvements, discuss upcoming events, and other topics of member interest.  Your attendance will be appreciated.
Lessons with Lis 3:30pm Marinette
Friday Social Play: 4:30pm to 6:00pm.  Then off to a group dinner location.  Terry and Murray will set up reservations for those going to dinner after playing.  Please email them asap to indicate you want to be on the reservation.

Let’s enjoy the day and be safe.
2018 Board of Directors

March – What’s Up

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If you thought February was busy, stay with us, cause March will be too.
Here are some highlights:
1. Spring Slam Tournament starts Friday, March 9th and concludes Sunday, March 11th at Marinette.
We still need more volunteers for various positions from parking attendants to food dispensers to line judges.  Please add your name to the boards in the center of the Pavilion at Marinette or contact Pat Klepadlo, Volunteer Coordinator.  Good luck to our club members in the tournament.
2. Sun City West Reciprocal Play – March 18th. Need more B division (3.5 rating) players.  Sign up…
3. Ratings Clinics continue through March.  Ratings are important for matching players.  Still some slots available.  Go to sign up link on our website.
4. Mt. View Round Robin added to Thursdays at 1:00pm
5. Training Clinics continue, but fill up fast each week.  Be sure to sign up on line the week before.
6. Member Meeting March 23rd, 1pm-3pm at Marinette auditorium.  The board will update members and receive suggestions for club member benefit.
7. Dink Tournament Monday March 26, 10am (or as soon as ladder clears the courts) at Marinette.
8. Snowbird Farewell Potluck, Thursday, March 29th at 5pm, Marinette patio

Other notes of possible interest:
A. Practice boards were added to both locations, Mt. View (opposite side of tables and chairs area of courts, outside the gate door.) and Marinette (east wall of pavilion).
B. Fan added to pavilion for circulation/cooling as it heats up.
C. Storage shed added outside of court 4 at Marinette.  Simon, the machine remains in storage room, due to heat issues affecting battery life.

Now, let’s enjoy playing pickleball, our members and the wonderful facilities at Sun City Pickleball courts.
See you there.

2018 Board of Directors.

Ratings Clinics – Happening

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Get A Sun City Pickleball Club Rating

If you have been playing Pickleball for more than a month and are a beginner or advanced beginner (1.5 to 2.5 level), sign up and come to one of the four Rating Clinics being offered in March. Our goal is to have all club members rated with either a SC Club Rating or a USAPA Tournament Rating by March, 2019.

Why should I have a rating?  Beginning October, 2018, possibly sooner, we plan to have times posted during the week when courts will be reserved for Paddle Play. That means Skill Level Paddles will be hung on courts and players will have the opportunity to play with others of their skill level.  The plan is for this to happen for all rating levels.  This will NOT replace Open Play, but will be at a different time.  Additionally, there will be mentor run clinics and doubles play for players of the same rating (skill level).

As your skills improve, you will be able to be re-rated to a higher skill level.

The four dates that Rating Clinics will be offered are:

Sat., March 3, 10 am, at Mountain View
Tue., March 6, 12 pm, at Marinette
Sat., March 24, 10 am, at Mountain View
Tue., March 27, 12 pm, at Marinette

Sign up on the website. We plan to have room for 30 sign ups for each event.
Sign up link…

Thanks again to Lis Smoot, Ratings Committee Lead and Clinic Instructor Lead for setting up these clinics.

Get A Sun City Pickleball Club Rating

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If you have been playing Pickleball for more than a month and are a beginner or advanced beginner (1.5 to 2.5 level), sign up and come to one of the four Rating Clinics being offered in March. Our goal is to have all club members rated with either a SC Club Rating or a USAPA Tournament Rating by March, 2019.

Why should I have a rating? Beginning October, 2018, we plan to have times posted during the week when courts will be reserved for Paddle Play. That means Skill-Level Paddles will be hung on courts and players will have the opportunity to play with others of their skill level. The plan is for this to happen for all rating levels. This will NOT replace Open Play, but will be at a different time. Additionally, there will be mentor-run clinics and doubles play for players of the same rating (skill level).

As your skills improve, you will be able to be re-rated to a higher skill level.

The four dates that Rating Clinics will be offered are:

Sat., March 3, 10 am, at Mountain View
Tue., March 6, 12 pm, at Marinette
Sat., March 24, 10 am, at Mountain View
Tue., March 27, 12 pm, at Marinette

We plan to have room for 30 sign ups for each event. Sign up here…

February Pickleball Club Events at a Glance

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Marinette
Skills Rodeo:  Feb. 9th, Friday from 10am – 12noon, sign up on our website, program limited.  Lunch will be provided.  Volunteer assistance welcome. Sorry for the late notice.
Rodeo signup…
Social Play Around: Come enjoy a “Social Play Around” event at Marinette on Sunday, Feb. 11th from 2pm – 4pm, coordinated by Peter Miceli and Bev Berger.  This is fun, organized play for all levels of players.  It will be a format enabling participants to be on the court with various club members.  The purpose of this event is to be able to play with as many different people as possible.  No web sign up, just show up.
Clinics:  Beginner (Tues-3:30), Advanced Beginner (Thurs. 3:30 and 6:00pm) and Advanced with Bud(Wed. 11am).  Remember, these clinics require signing up each week on our website.  Space is limited and fills up fast.
Ladders:  Continue on Monday, Tuesday and Friday.  See website for sign up.
Round Robin: Wed. at 8:00am.   May start one at Mt. View.
Women’s Team Play:  Wed. at 12:30
Inter-Club Tournament: Wed. Feb. 21st.  Sign up on website
Dink Tournament:  Thursday, March 1st, 10am.  Need volunteers.

Mt. View:
Drill Clinics: Feb. 8th, Thursday at 11 and 12 noon.  All slots filled on website as of now.
Fun Day:  Feb. 19th, 4-7pm, with snacks
Round Robin:  In development.  Details pending.

Busy, Busy, Busy, or is dink, lob, slam
See you on the courts.

2018 Board of Directors

Drill Clinics

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Drill clinics will be held on Thursday, February 8, 2018, at Mountain View pickleball courts. There will be one session at 11:00 am and another at noon. The purpose of this clinic is to learn drills that you can do with a partner that will help improve your pickleball game. All levels are encouraged to participate but you must have a partner of similar skill level to sign up for the clinic. The number of participants is limited to 28 players total. No games will be played at this clinic. The clinic will be facilitated by Peter Miceli & Bev Berger. Club membership is required.

Sign up here for you and your partner for one of the sessions, but not both…

Added Clinic to Thursday Night

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Due to popular demand, Lis Smoot, Club Lead Instructor, has agreed to add another combined Beginner/Advanced Beginner class (up to 18 people allowed to sign up) on Thursday at 6:00-7:30pm. This was made possible because of the generous donation of time from volunteer instructors. Thank you, Lis and all volunteer instructors! Here is the link to sign up for the Thursday evening clinic:
http://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090b4fadaa28a3fd0-combined
Steve

New – Skill-Improvement Clinics

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Clinics – Restart
Good News…we are rolling out a new program to help us play better with less injury. Clinic signups available now on our website.
I’m pleased to announce that Lis Smoot, longtime educator and coach in physical fitness, has graciously accepted to be “Lead Instructor” for clinics. Along with Lis, Bud Langford, also a coach of various sports, will be the back up to Lis.
Lis is taking a different approach to lessons for our club, whereby each week will focus on different techniques and skill development for both the beginner and advanced beginner classes.
Supporting this weekly “scheduled lesson plan” program will be a cadre of volunteer instructors of which you may have seen before and some new ones.
I take this opportunity to remind all of us of how fortunate we are to have such great facilities and talented players/instructors giving “generously” of their time to help us further enjoy pickleball. They Rock! Continue reading →

Instructors Wanted

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Dear Members,
As noted in an earlier email your club is in the process of updating our lessons and clinics.
How to go forward with instruction?  Your board considers the training/clinics/lessons aspect of our club a critical component of having a club.  So, much so we want to develop a longer-term curriculum that supersedes any of us on the board or current instructors.  To do so requires a fresh approach to lessons.
One clear need is to have “many available” instructors so as to cover high season as well as low season.  Enough instructors are needed to prevent teacher burnout, allow for injury, tournament play, etc.    Anyone willing to volunteer some of their time to help others learn and better enjoy the fast-growing game of Pickleball should go to the sign-up section (upper right side) of our website https://suncitypickleballclub.org/   beginning Sunday, Jan 14th and add their name.  Sign up here…
We are planning instructor meetings this week regarding instruction and if your name is on this list, you likely will be contacted to join a meeting.
More details should be available later in the week, as we begin building a new lesson program for our members.
Steve