Category Archives: Tournament

Line Judge Training Clinic

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A major revenue source for our club is the three 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 USAPA 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.

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. Paddle and court attire are required.

Date: Friday, October 18
Location: Marinette Pavilion
Time: 10:00 am-12:00 pm

Sign up here…

Club Tournament, Classes w Dee Davison, Paddle Racks

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Thanks to all who participated in our first, hopefully annual, Member/Member & Member/Guest Tournament last week!  Everyone seemed to have a great time, and the weather cooperated.  Special thanks to Jeff Skaggs for doing the announcing, Jan Booth for keeping track of the matches and Jane Sinclair for taking care of the food table.  Hopefully we’ll have a computer program available to organize the matches next time. Then again, sometimes those programs have not done too well for us!

Pat Klepadlo has been busy arranging dates for a series of Classes with Dee Davison. These are 2 hour sessions and cost $50 per person for a four person group. Dee will do 3 classes per day on whatever dates we can fill. The dates are October 16 and 23 and December 11 and 17.  Please get to PK immediately if interested as some of Dee’s dates may close and our slots will fill quickly.
Email PK or (719) 649-0138.

There have been several requests for a paddle rack at Marinette similar to that at Mountain View. One will be installed near the gates accessing courts 17-20 by the end of October.  A second rack for MV is also in the works.

Latest word on the Marinette lighting is that it will be done for the Roundup.  There has been no commitment beyond that. The crews will work on two courts at a time, so the whole pavilion will not be closed.

Club Tournament, Clinics, Corrected Dates, Simon

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Our Club Tournament date has finally arrived, and the event will take place from 0700 – 1100 Friday and Saturday.  We will be using court #8 and #10-20 on Friday, and #13-20 on Saturday.  All other courts are available for Drop in, INCLUDING  all 7 courts at Mountain View!  PLAYERS PLEASE NOTE: Registration will begin at 0700. Please be on time! Play will start promptly at 0730!  All games will be “Win by ONE”. The number of games and the score to which you will play has been determined by the size of each group. We expect to be done by 1030. Temps are not supposed to be excessively high, but be sure to hydrate!

As yesterday’s email noted, the date for the Referee Training Clinic has been established as October 19. You must sign up on Sign up Genius in order to attend.  The Line Judging Clinic mentioned last week will be October 25 from 1000-1200 at Marinette.  Both are available to Club Members only. Tom has done a lot of work getting these lined up for us prior to the Roundup.

Sign up for the Men’s League and Women’s League are both available on our Website. The Meeting date for those playing in the leagues has been changed to November 4 at 1300 at Marinette. Please change that if you already had it on your calendar.

Simon as been sold. Thanks to those who offered to give him a good home!

Thanks! 
Dave

Upcoming, For Sale

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First, I need to take a few lines to thank Tom Jeffers for all his work on our behalf. All our emails for the past two months were Tom’s work. He also brought the Lobster to and from the factory in CA for repairs, and is now working on a couple of clinics for us in October. So, THANK YOU TOM, for these and many other things!

Cut off date for entries in our Member/Member & Member/Guest Tournament is this Sunday, September 15. We’ve had a very encouraging response, but could use a few more teams. Other Club activities on September 20 and 21 will be cancelled. There will be plenty of room for Open Play.

RCSC has mentioned several times, from several places within, that there is a limited number of times a Guest may be signed into an RCSC facility in a calendar year. That number is 14. How, or if, this will be addressed is still open. Just be aware the regulation is there – and is not new.

We have a lot of things coming up following next week’s tournament:
10/09 Fun Day at Marinette – 5:00
10/15 Fun Day at Mountain View – 5:00
10/?? Mid month Line Judging Clinic
10/?? ” ” Referee Clinic
10/21 Membership Meeting – 4:00, Marinette
10/29-31 Roundup Tournament
11/11 Color Team Tournament – 2:00, Marinette
11/18 Meeting for Men’s League and Women’s League – 1:00, Marinette
11/16 Volunteer Luncheon – 11:00, Marinette Patio Have you volunteered yet?
12/06 Membership Meeting – 1:00, Marinette
12/07 Christmas Party – 4:30, Bell Center
There will be more events, and more info will be forthcoming. Dates for the October clinics will be sent as soon as they are confirmed.

Simon, our original Pickleball Training machine, has outlived its usefulness to the Club. It still works, but can be finicky and therefore no longer meets our needs. He will be sold to a Club Member for $100. If there’s no interest, we’ll advertise elsewhere.

Thanks!
Dave

Line Judges

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Good Morning!
We still need line judges for our “Roundup at Sun City” tournament October 29, 30 and 31st. You need not volunteer for all 3 days, or even all of one day, but we do need your help for a few hours! There will be a Line Judge/Referee Clinic about a week prior – exact time and date TBD. This is a great opportunity to see some great Pickleball up close. Sign up today!
Thanks,
Dave

Prescott Pickleball Tournament Results

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There is not much going on tournament wise in the west valley during the summer. However, Prescott does host summer tournaments, and this weekend was no exception. The Prescott Lakes Senior Pickleball Tournament just concluded and our Sun City Club players brought home some medals.

In the 60+ 3.5 bracket, Cindy Golden and Lynda Skaggs came home with bronze medals. Also, in the 50+ 3.5 bracket, our own Donna Holick brought home a gold medal in the women’s doubles games, plus a bronze medal in the mixed doubles bracket. You may know Donna as the tournament coordinator for the three tournament events our club hosts each season.

Congratulations to all our club players!

Update: Club member Ilja Gregor teamed with Barry Weiner for a silver medal Aug. 4 in the men's 70-74, 3.5 division of the USA Pickleball Association Middle States Regional in Lakeville, Minn. There were 511 entrants in the tournament.

Member/Member, Upcoming, Lights, Safety, Lessons

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Thank you to the early registrants for our Member/Member & Member/Guest Tournament coming up September 20 & 21! We’re off to a great start, but need lots more! There is plenty of time, but we all know how time flies, so don’t procrastinate too long! This is a great opportunity for those who haven’t played a major tournament to try it out on a smaller, much more relaxed, scale. It’s also a chance for those of you who have quit playing tournaments, for whatever reason, to get out and enjoy the experience again!

We have two Fun Days coming up in October, followed by our Pickleball Roundup at the end of the month. There’s also a Club meeting on October 21st. Looking beyond that, there is a Color/Team Tournament November 11, followed by our Volunteer Luncheon on November 16. Our last Membership Meeting of the year is December 6th, followed by our Christmas Party on the 7th.

Have you volunteered this year? Sign ups will be out soon for the Roundup, but we also need volunteers for all our Club events. These vols are no less important than those who work the major tournaments, and will also be honored at the Volunteer Luncheon.

The lights for Marinette have been approved and it is reasonable to expect them to be installed before the Roundup at the end of October. There is no guarantee, however. The exhaust fans we requested are not being considered at this time, partly due to the solar panels covering half the Pavilion roof, but mostly to see how the existing “natural” ventilation system works once the light are up and some of the screens are down. The Lobster for Mountain View has been ordered and will be in place by te time play resumes there in September or October.

We mentioned being careful to stay hydrated in the last email. We also want to make sure we are under control at all times as we run (such as that is) around the courts. We’ve been told to not run backwards, but any lunge, reach or stretch that pulls us off balance is an invitation to disaster! I have a picture of one of our members, who says it’s ok to share, with an ugly gash, missing hair and 5 staples in the top of his head, when the trip after a cross court volley ended up leading to a crash into a fence post and a trip to the ER. Bad as it was, it could have been worse! Be careful! Know your limits!

Lessons are a great way to learn – when the recipient is ready and willing to absorb one. Please refrain from giving your unsolicited advice to those with whom you are playing! Many of us are glad to have it; many of us are not! No one, BTW, is currently authorized to charge for lessons given on our courts. Violation will have consequences.

Thanks everyone! Next one will be much shorter!
Dave

Club Tourn, Roundup, Balls, Dues, Nametags, Heat, Emails

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On September 20 and 21 our Club will host its first Member&Member/Member&Guest Tournament. As the name suggests, at least one member of each team must be a SCPC Member.  For those who have been reluctant to try tournament competition, this is a great opportunity to give tournament play a try without getting into an all day, possibly stressful, sometimes expensive experience.  This will be none of those, but will be a fun time with some great friendly competition at all levels.

There will be brackets for Men’s, Women’ and Mixed Doubles at Skill Levels 2.5, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0+. There will be no age brackets unless a bracket is large enough to split into two full brackets. Men’s and Women’s will play on the 20th, Mixed on the 21st. Registration will begin both days at 7:00, play at 7:30 sharp!

All play will be in Round Robin format; number of matches, games per match and points per game to be determined by the size of each bracket. The Tournament reserves the right to move a team to a different bracket to fill a bracket or because it believes a team is entered in an incorrect bracket. Registration is now available on the Club website.  $10 per team per event, payable via PayPal. One team member should enter and pay for both. Registration deadline is September 15. https://suncitypickleballclub.org/membermember-or-memberguest-tournament/

SCPC will pay all guest fees. Coffee, juice, fruit, donuts and other breakfast snacks will be provided, as will ice. Players should bring their own water containers.

As mentioned last week, registration for our “Roundup” tournament begins Monday, July 15. If you don’t immediately get into your bracket, sign up for the “Wait List”. More often than not you will eventually get moved into your bracket.

Now that the heat has settled in, it’s even more important to return the balls to the coolers, and the coolers to the pavilion, after play. We’ve been doing pretty well at this, and it shows! The balls will still get softer than we’d like, but keeping them out of the direct sun helps a lot!

Much more importantly than the balls, we need to protect our bodies in this heat. HYDRATE! And keep an eye on your partners and opponents to make sure they’re doing ok, please.

Please check with your friends to see if they’re getting Club emails. We periodically lose people for no apparent reason, but can’t correct the problem til we know it exists.

You may have noticed in one of our local papers that our dues are $15. That is the correct figure, agreed upon by the Board, for 2020 and will be in effect October 1, when renewals begin. $15 was the figure initially proposed in 2017, and there is no need for it to be any higher at this time.

Finally, please remember to wear your Club Name Badge. Also, please take a look at the badges at the bulletin board once in awhile and see if someone you know has left hers/his hanging there.

Thanks!
Dave