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New Year

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Hello Club Members!!

CLUB DUES
Just a reminder, Club Dues are due on January 1st, and no later than January 15th. Please complete the membership form even though you’re a returning member.  Membership form is online as well as you’re able to pay online. *For our over 80 group, your annual dues are complimentary, but you still need to complete a membership form.  All members should have a blue 2023 sticker on their name tag by January 16th.  See a board member for the sticker after you’ve paid.

CLUB SHIRTS & HATS
It’s time to order your Club shirts & hats!  You can order your items through January 30th, 2023.  The group order will be placed on the 31st of January, Shirts will be delivered to your home address within 2 weeks once group order is placed.  (Here’s a tip….if there are 2 of you in a household, order all your shirts in one order. That way you’ll only pay one shipping charge.  (The shipping charge is a flat $6.95 regardless of the # of shirts you order.).  The hats will be delivered in bulk to Lynda Skaggs who will notify everyone by email when to pick up your hat at Marinette.

Below are 2 separate links, one for shirts and one for hats. 
These links will also be available on our Club Website:

For shirt purchase, use this link:
https://www.customink.com/g/bbt0-00cp-kq9e
Women Sizing Guide   Men Sizing Guide
For hat purchase, use this link:
https://www.customink.com/g/bbt0-00cp-q52j

RECIPROCAL
Next reciprocal is January 22nd.
There were some questions that arose on the lineup.  Here’s the protocol:  The first 6 in any of the divisions will play.  If someone drops out from the first 6, then the 7th signup will play.  If someone else drops out then the 8th signup will play and so on.  Over the past few months there have been a good number of players who had to withdraw their signup.  Changes in schedules are totally understood.  It is important that we have all 10 slots filled for just those changes!  In a few cases over the past 3 months, I have not had all the 10 slots filled in a particular division and had to scramble for players. If we have all 10 slots filled then I don’t have to run through the roster to find players.  In addition, we do our best to accommodate the team partner requests but if one of the team signs up as #5 and the requested partner is #7 then it is quite possible you will be teamed with someone else. The way to avoid this is to sign up early!!!!!

For all you new pickleball players, January 2nd starts a new 5 day Basic Clinic with Shayne Lehman.  Please sign up on our Club webpage on the right-hand side, click on “CLINICS”.  There are openings available!

UPCOMING DATES
January 1 – Mt. View Fun Day 12-5 – bring a snack to share & your own beverage
January 13th – Marinette Fun Day 4-7pm – bring a snack to share and your own beverage
January 16th – Marinette Membership Meeting at 4 pm – All Club events are canceled during the Club Membership Meeting. January 16th @ Marinette Auditorium.  Your presence at the membership meeting would be appreciated.
Rodeo – February 3rd – 4 – 7 @ Marinette.  Thanks to Lis Smoot for coordinating this fun event!

As the New Year is fast approaching more snowbirds will be arriving!  Safe travels to you!  

I’m sitting here at the Marinette Center today in the pouring rain, looking out on the courts and see several pickleballs getting wet.  Please remember to pick up all balls off the courts and empty the ball holders and return them to the coolers.

Happy New Year!  Looking forward to seeing you all on the courts!
Dan

Paddle Play

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Paddle Play will begin Tuesday, October 4, from 2 – 3:30, for Beginners to 2.5 players. Beginners need to have taken the Intro to Pickleball class or have played for at least a month. You don’t need to sign up. Just show up to court 1-4 a little before 2 pm.

Intermediate Paddle Play for players who are 3.0 and higher begins Wednesday, October 5, from 3-4:30 on courts 17-20.

What is Paddle Play? The first half hour of Paddle Play will be focused on a Pickleball Skill. The next hour will be round robin play with an emphasis on improving your game skills. Each court will have one or two Mentors who will help coach your court. The Mentors will be volunteer club members who have a higher rating than the players on the court.

Mentors Needed. I will need members to volunteer as Mentors. In the past, Mentors have been invaluable in helping our club players improve their skills during play. If you are interested in becoming a Mentor for Paddle Play, please email Lis Smoot

Hello Sun City Pickleball Club

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Hope your summer is going well and you are enjoying pickleball wherever you may be. For you Snowbirds coming back to Sun City, fun pickleball and your wintertime friends is just around the corner, Safe travels as you head back to Sun City.

Our board is going to have some changes for 2023. Ann Clark’s term is up. Thank you Ann for your 3 years as club secretary! Patty Evans has decided not to continue as club treasurer for 2023. Thank you for your time as treasurer. There is a nominating committee working to find members who are willing and have expertise to fill the secretary and treasurer positions. Thanks to Shayne Lehman, Gwen Miller and Ralph Foster for serving on this committee. 

Some things to look for coming up. An ice machine to be installed in the Marinette pavilion some time in September. I’ve mentioned before, the resurfacing of the Marinette courts in late November. The Round Up tournament coming up in October. Some info about the tournament from Lynda and Jeff Skaggs, tournament directors, is included in this email. Please sign up to volunteer for this event. Also included in this email is some info from Tom Jeffers about an upcoming line judge clinic’     
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Line Judge Training Clinic

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Line Judge Training Clinic-Round Up 2022

A major revenue source for our club is the tournaments that we host every year at the Marinette courts.  For our members who have participated or observed tournament play, you know that successful tournaments depend heavily on our club volunteers.  One of the most exciting and dynamic volunteer positions is serving as a line judge. 

Our tournaments are USA Pickleball sanctioned events, which require line judges for all gold medal matches.  A pickleball line judge, much like a tennis line judge, is part of the team that supports the referee by observing the travel of the ball and signaling to the referee if the ball has touched the ground or other object outside the court boundaries. 

Line judges have the opportunity to see the gold medal match competition and the best players compete at all the skill levels.   For our members looking to learn how to line judge, this class is a must for you.  For our seasoned Club line judges, this is an excellent review of the rules and their application to the game.

We are fortunate to have one of our own club members, Elaine Guest, to assist us at our Clinic.  Elaine has an extensive background as an umpire and referee.  Notably, she is our only club member who has achieved Certified USA Pickleball Referee status.  During the clinic, Elaine will share the referee perspective with the attendees and take any mystery out of line judging.

We’ll spend about an hour discussing the role of line judge, then we’ll apply that knowledge on the courts to practice the new skills.  Go to Sign Up Genius and register.  The class is limited to 16 participants, plus four alternates.  Paddle, name tags, and court attire are required!

For clinic questions, please contact Tom Jeffers.

Remember to sign up on the Club website as a Round Up line judge volunteer!

Date:               Monday, October 10, 2022

Location:         Marinette Pavilion

Time:               11:00 AM-1:00 PM

 

Meeting

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Thanks to all our club members who took the time to attend the special meeting yesterday evening at the Mt. View. At that meeting our club membership voted in favor of accepting an offer from the RCSC to start the process of building pickleball courts at the Lake View Rec Center. The total number of courts to be built is yet to be determined. There is the possibility of anywhere from 8 to 14 courts being built to replace the current tennis courts. As the process moves forward and a general contractor specializing in pickleball courts is hired the exact number of courts will be decided.
The courts to be built will be permanent, official courts with permanent lines and nets. A shaded sitting area is also part of the plan.
These courts, when built, will be available for play before any work begins at the Mt. View Rec Center.

Thanks to Lis Smoot for doing another set of rating clinics. You will need to sign up for these clinics on our web page. There will be two options. Both offered on Saturday, March 19th at the Marinette. The times are at 2 pm or 3:30 pm.

It was brought to my attention recently (I did not know this) that used and broken pickleballs are NOT recyclable. Please do not deposit them in the blue recycle barrels.

Great weather, hope you are all getting out and playing.
Dan H.

Fun Day

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Good afternoon, Sun City Pickleball.

The Club is having a Fun Day this Thursday February 10th at the Mt. View courts. The fun starts at 4 pm and goes until 6pm. Bring a snack to share and a beverage of your choice. Hope to see you there.

Club tournament is February 18th at the Marinette. Play starts promptly at 10 am. Pizza lunch to follow.

Thanks to Lis Smoot and her helpers for doing two rating clinics

New bleachers have been ordered. Check is in the mail. Thanks to Jeff Skaggs for his efforts on this project.

Hopefully warmer days are in our future until we can start complaining about it being too hot.

Happy hitting,
Dan H.

New

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Hello Sun City Pickleball

Was kind of a cool, windy day here if Sun City today. For those who played I’m sure the wind made play interesting.

We have SO much enthusiasm from our players to improve and get better at their game! We were offering novice and intermediate lessons on Mondays, but these lessons alternated Mondays. That meant novice was offered twice a month and intermediate was offered twice a month. These lessons had 16 sign up participants each week, a waiting list and numerous complaints from club members who could not get into these lessons. Here’s what’s new. The novice class will now meet every Monday at 1 pm at the Marinette. We will now be offering intermediate lessons every Friday at 2 pm at the Marinette.
Novice lessons are for those early-stage beginners who would be considered having a below 2.0 rating.
Intermediate lessons are for those players who are 2.5 to 3.0 rated. You can sign up for these lessons on our website.

The rating clinics on 1/29 and 2/5 have all slots filled now. Yea!

Club tournament on 2/18 is filling up quickly’

The Sun City Pickleball board has made the decision to turn the Lobster Machine at the Marinette into a “training tool” Wiil only be available to our instructors. I understand this might not be a popular decision with everyone, but it was the best solution we could arrive at. With the Lobster being made available to any RCSC card holder it was constantly in need of repair which limited it’s use and was costing the club time and money to repair.

Hopefully wind will die down soon,
Have fun on the courts,
Dan H.

Computer Class to Navigate the Club Website and Related Sites

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THIS IS AN INTEREST ONLY SIGN UP. NOTHING HAS BEEN SCHEDULED YET.

Update 2-7-22. This item has been canceled. There was not enough interest to create a class.

THIS IS A COMPUTER CLASS TO LEARN HOW TO NAVIGATE OUR CLUB WEBSITE & OTHER PICKLEBALL RELATED SITES.

TOPICS TO BE COVERED:

SUN CITY PICKLEBALL WEBSITE:

  • HOW TO OBTAIN A SIGN-UP GENIUS ACCOUNT

  • SIGN-UP LINKS

  • CLUB ACTIVITIES

  • OUR CLUB

  • ROSTER

  • SIGN UP LINKS

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New Activity

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Good afternoon, Sun City pickleball players.

The club has recently added a new pickleball activity we want to make you aware of. It’s called Social Pickleball. This activity will be available starting Monday January 31st at 2 pm at the Marinette. And also, on Saturdays at 1 pm also at the Marinette. You can sign up for these events on our website.
So, what’s Social Pickleball? It’s an offshoot of Modified pickleball.
Definition of Social Pickleball:
A non-competitive round robin format. For players looking for a fun, comfortable, social, non-competitive type of play. Players should be able to move around the court safely. Players of various skill levels are perfect for this group. Standard pickleball rules are used.
Definition of Modified Pickleball:
A round robin format for players with limited mobility and/or permanent physical disabilities. Also, for those players recovering from a debilitating surgery. Modified pickleball allows a player two service tries and two ball bounces for players.
Thank you to Kathryn Rabe who is the social pickleball coordinator and Allen Gilson the modified pickleball coordinator.

There are still slots available for the rating clinics on Saturday January 29th and Saturday February 5th. You can sign up for these on our website. We highly recommend you attend one of these clinics if you do not already have a USA PICKLEBALL rating or a current club rating. A goal of our club is that all club members will need a rating in order to sign up for clinics and lessons. Thanks to Lis Smoot for coordinating these rating sessions.

There is now a sign up for our 2022 Club Tournament on Friday February 18th. Play starts at 10 am plan on arriving before 9;45 am. This sign up is also on our website. Pizza lunch to follow tournament on Marinette patio. Bring your own beverages.

Pickleballs seem to be mysteriously disappearing from the Mt. View courts???? Please do not take balls for yourself or to put into your bags. Until a solution can be found all club members help would be appreciated. One “possible” theory is the courts are getting used not only by non-club members, but possibly non- Sun City residences. Just keep your eyes open.

All for now,
Happy Hitting,
Dan H.

General

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Good Morning

Thanks to all members who attended our Club Membership meeting on Monday afternoon.

Attention Singles Players. Yes, you high energy, extremely fit, mobile, half-crazy old people who enjoy the singles game of pickleball. We now have a place for you to sign up to play singles on our website. Look under Signup Links for information and to sign up.

LIs Smoot is going to put on two rating clinics in the near future. More info on days, times and signups to come. If you have no current USAPICKLEBALL rating or club rating I encourage you to go to one of these clinics.

Club Tournament coming up on Friday February 18th. Start time for this event is 10 am. Pizza lunch on the Marinette patio to follow. Look for sign up info coming soon. Thanks to Richard & Barb Haywood for being tournament directors.

Line judge clinic with Tom Jeffers on March 1st.

If you’re interested in knowing about all the clubs Sun City has to offer, consider going to Discover Sun City Day on Wednesday January 19th. There are two sessions, one from 9-11 am and the other at 6-8 pm. The event takes place at the Sun Dial. The Sun City Pickleball Club will have a booth there.

All for now. Have fun on the courts,
Dan H.