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Good Afternoon Fellow Pickleball Players

The Red White Blue {black/grey} tournament was a fun time for one and all. Especially the members of the Blue team who came out on top with the most points. Congratulations to the members of the Blue team.
Thanks to Richard and Barb Heywood and Dave Breault for running/organizing the tournament. Thanks to Jeff Skaggs for being the announcer and the several other volunteers who help collect scores. Also, thanks to Deb Lantzy and helpers for organizing the pizza dinner that followed the tournament.

We have a club member who still works and would like to organize an evening round robin. Jeannette Kokesh would be willing to lead any club members who would like to participate in a RR on a Tuesday of Thursday night starting at 5pm or 6pm. You can contact Jeannette at jeannette5911@gmail.com if interested.

The volunteer lunch scheduled for November 12th is being revamped to a classier event and has been canceled for this year. Look for it next year. While all members are required to volunteer 4 hours per year, this event next year will be for those who volunteer at least 10 hours + per year. The volunteer hours you have to date are being counted towards next year’s event.

Tournament Director training has begun! Tony Hanlin & Janet Gannon have stepped up and are learning the ropes! If any other members would like to jump in, please let me know.

Don’t forget to sign up for the Holiday Party, December 7th. Signup is on our Club website.

Happy Hitting Dan

WOW

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Guess i should only give the club short notice to sign up for tournaments more often? The Red White & Blue club tournament has had 96 people sign up in less than 48 hours! The sign up has been closed. There are 80 slots available for play. The last sixteen will be extras in case of cancellation and no shows. Will need some volunteers to help run tournament.

There will pizza and salad served in the Marinette auditorium after the tournament ends. Please bring your own drinks! Adult beverages are allowed.

Also, coming up. Volunteer lunch on November the 12th. More info to follow.

Christmas party on December the 7th. More information on this will be forth coming. Tickets for this event this year will be $25 each for members and quests.

Thanks to those who have already offered to volunteer for RW&B tournament.
Happy Halloween
Dan

Round Up

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Hello Sun City Pickleball

Our Round Up Tournament was a huge success! Despite the torrential down pours we experienced on Saturday! For those of you who were not able to attend the tournament, we had rivers running through the Marinette pavilion. Our members and the RCSC maintenance personnel jumped into action and eventually the tournament carried on. Wish I could name each and every one of our volunteers by name to thank them! You’re awesome. Jeff and Lynda Skaggs, as always, were great tournament directors. The tournament ran like a well-oiled machine.

Our club members that played in Round Up represented us well. Medal winners included:
Gold Medal men. Kim Janecky. Jerry Raisanen, David Stephens.
Gold Medal Mix. Kathy Waller. Andy Kinder. Patty Evans. Jan Hodgson.
Gold Medal women. Kari Anderson. Penny Janecky. Kathy Waller. Nancy Considine. Terri Smiley. Paula Beaty, Karen Madison. Jan Hodgson.
Silver Medal men. Jim Diamond. Randy Romero. Tim Hatzenbeler.
Silver Medal women. Patty Evans. Alice Ritzman. Carrol Worsnup.
Bronze Metal men. Bob Thacker. Dave Breault, Tom Jeffers.
Bronze Metal Mix. Carol Hutchinson. Bob Thacker. Joy Stephens. David Stephens. Irene Leaf. Tim Hatzenbeler’
Bronze Medal women. Gay Jones
Congratulations to all!

Reciprocal play versus Sun City West on Sunday October the 23rd at the Marinette courts staring at 1 pm.

Club Membership meeting on Monday October 24th at the Marinette auditorium starting at 4 pm.

Fun Day at Mountain View courts on Thursday October the 27th from 4 pm to 7 pm. Please bring a snack to share. beverage of your choice.

The club is in full swing folks. And many of the snowbirds have yet to arrive. 1018 members as of today’

Happy hitting!
Dan

Upcoming

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Good morning Sun City Pickleball

Some upcoming events and reminders.

Tomorrow Friday October the 14th, Our Round Up Tournament begins. Runs through Sunday the !6th. All the courts at the Marinette will be in use for this tournament. If you would still like to get some pickleball play in, you will need to head to the Mountain View courts. I’d like to thank all our club volunteers who help make this tournament happen. Also, a big thanks to Lynda and Jeff Skaggs for being the tournament directors. This quite possibly will be Lynda and Jeff’s final time as tournament directors. Will be in need of someone to take their place. If you are not playing or volunteering i recommend you head down just to watch and support or club members who are participating.

Reciprocal play between Sun City and Sun City West is right around the corner!! On October 23rd at the Marinette from 1pm to 3pm is our first match of the Fall! We are in need of players in levels A, B and C for both men and women! We have spots accounted for in the event there are dropouts or no shows! It would be great for our Sun City Club to have a fantastic showing and a WIN for the month of October to kick of the fall! Go to our web page, find the Reciprocal Play icon and sign up for this event using Sign Up Genius. Deadline for signing up is October the18th! A big thanks to Karen and Will Young for being this year’s Reciprocal play coordinators.

Our first membership meeting of the winter season is coming up on Monday October the 24th, at the Marinette auditorium from 4pm to 6pm. Hope you plan to attend.

Nice to be back in Sun City. Reconnecting with old friends, meeting new ones.
Dan

Fall Information Night

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Hello Sun City Pickleball Club

On Friday, September 23, from 6-8 pm at the Marinette Auditorium, our club will be hosting a Fall information night. This event will be an informative evening about our clubs upcoming winter events and activities, Presentations from the coordinators of our ladders, round robins, social activities. reciprocal play, lessons and clinics we offer and more. There is more information on our club website. Hope to see you there. Thanks to Lynda Skaggs for putting this night together.

The Round Up Tournament is still in need of volunteer line judges. Don’t think you can be a line judge? Tom Jeffers is offering a clinic on how to line judge. The clinic takes place at the Marinette on Monday October 10th from 11 am to 1 pm. There is also more information about this clinic on our club website.

Looking forward to seeing you soon!

Dan

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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Things

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Hello, Sun City, Pickleball Club.

Lynda Skaggs has made arrangements for a clinic to come to the Marinette. Follows is a description of the clinic.
Patrice Ayala, professor from Midwestern University, a Board-Certified Clinical Specialist in Geriatric Physical Therapy will be coming to the Marinette pickleball courts along with several of her students to teach a class on what to-do to avoid a fall (fall risk) and then a little bit about the “best” way to fall.
Best way to fall is part of their “Senior Athlete Fitness Exam” (SAFE for short) and several little stations; taking vitals, testing walking speed, (which is highly correlated to fall risk), grip strength, shoulder and ankle flexibility, balance on even and uneven surfaces with eyes open and closed.
If you’d like to attend this FREE educational class, please use sign up on Sign up Genius.
Hopefully this class will be offered again this winter.

Our annual Fall Tournament “Pickleball Round Up” is open for registration. Our members get a $10 discount on their entry fee. Free lunch for all players. This is a wonderful tournament to get started in your tournament career, it’s open to levels 2.5 to 5.0. Go to https://www.pickleballtournaments.com/ to register. Lynda Skaggs is available if you need assistance.

The committee that was formed to oversee/help with design and construction of the courts coming to the Lakeview met recently. The committee did some brainstorming and we have passed on a list of needs and wants to the RCSC. I’d like to thank the club members who stepped up to be on the committee. Jeff Skaggs, Bill Booth, Dave Breault, Sue Bryant, Mike Lasker, Dave Parenteau, Marcia Gregory, Rachel Trojanovich and myself. We’ll keep you posted as we get information.

We have new windscreens on the Union Hills side of the courts.15 and 16 and 19 and 20. Coming in November will be the resurfacing of all the courts at the Marinette. Schedule of that project with be forth coming.

Hope everyone is enjoying their summer! Happy Hitting.
Dan H.

Pickleball Round Up Presented by Aetna Medicare Solutions

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Our annual tournament, “Pickleball Round Up Presented by Aetna Medicare Solutions,” will take place October 14,15 & 16, 2022 at the Marinette Center. Registration begins on July 12th.  If you’ve never participated in a USAP Tournament, this is a great tournament to get started! You don’t need a rating to participate, you can enter the tournament as a 2.5 or whatever rating you feel your level of play is at currently. Because this is a sanctioned tournament you’ll need to join the USAP @ https://usapickleball.org/ and also create a profile on https://www.pickleballtournaments.com/  There is a $10 discount for Club Members participating in the tournament so make sure to enter Sun City Pickleball Club in your profile. Hoping to see a lot of our new members take part in this tournament!

Odds and Ends

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80 degrees today. Yahoo!

The Desert Frogs vs Snowbirds was a great club event. Lots of fun and laughter and just a little competitive juice thrown in. A huge thanks to Marcia Gregory for being the tournament director. Marcia also had some great helpers. Thanks to Winston, Shirley, Ros, Jane and Jeff. The Snowbirds “won” the event, but getting our club together was the important thing.

Thanks to Deb Lantzy and her helpers for setting up and organizing the food for the Farewell Dinner. Again, a fun time was had by one and all.

Thanks to Evelyn Larson for organizing a round robin at the Mountain View to accommodate our club members who were not able to get signed up for the Frogs vs Snowbirds.

Ilja Gregor would like to thank all who donated paddles to his son’s PE class. Ilja was able to send off 30 paddles to his son due to your generosity

I got an interesting email from an Ernesto Velazquez a founder and tournament director of a pickleball club and tournament in Spain. He is having two PB tournaments in Spain, One in June and one July. He is to be sending me more information about promotional packs to go to Spain for these events. If you want to go to Spain to play some PB let me know and I’ll pass on info as I get it.

With the warmer weather approaching, please if you are the last players on the courts at the Marinette or Mt. View pick up the balls and put them into a cooler. Thanks.

Membership meeting on Tuesday, March 15th, at 5 pm at Mt. View auditorium.

All for now, I’m sure someone will remind me tomorrow of something I left out of the email.

See you all on Tuesday,
Dan H.

Thank You

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A BIG “Thank You” to our volunteers for the recent Sun City Spring Slam – it couldn’t happen without all of you! A special thanks to the chairpersons for the largest committees: Mo and Steve McClean, Karen Madison, Deb Lantzy, Donna Holick and Charlotte Peters. President Dan Haberman sweated a bit before receiving our Pickleball allotment but his finger-crossing worked, and we got the balls one day before the tournament started. Jeff Skaggs suffered an injury, also the day prior to play, but his bad luck to not be able to play was good luck for us as he and Lynda were there every day doing much of the work they’ve done previously when serving as Tournament Directors. Lynda was instrumental in re-working our club logo to fit on the medals, which were very well received by the players. Donna Holick was equally called upon often for advice and direction. Treasurer Patty Evans was there every day to pay the referees and other incidental bills. The award for being the greatest helper for set-up and take-down goes to Frank Concotelli – this year, and every year as he is always there to help the process.

So another very successful tournament is in the books for the Sun City Pickleball Club. Mark your calendars, loosely, for a date in October for the Roundup, and prepare to volunteer once more as tournaments cannot happen without your help!

Diana Graham
Alice Ritzman