Robyn Chiappini from Albuquerque, NM is our special guest of the day.

Thursday morning Pickleball proved to be very exciting.  We had a special guest join us, Robyn, from Albuquerque, NM for some Pickleball fun.  She is visiting her Aunt in Mt Dora and looked us up on the USAPA site and emailed us to see if she could join us for some fun Pickleball games.  She is an excellent player and very good at the net.  We all enjoyed playing Pickleball with her.  She will be joining us again tomorrow morning.

It was nice to see Cindi back this morning after being away for three weeks.  Welcome Back, Cindi!

This morning was full of surprises.  Crystal Burks and Betsy Master came in to learn the game of Pickleball.  They are Tennis players so we knew they would adapt to the game real quick.  Turns out they loved the game and did very well and will be moving up to play in the regular rotation.  Congratulations, girls!

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Pickleball at Highland Lakes is good for everyone.

The first collage are pictures taken on Sunday afternoon. The second collage are pictures taken on Monday night.  A big Thanks to Marvin for helping to teach our new Pickleball player on Sunday afternoon.

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Monday night Inter-Community Pickleball play 5/31/2010

Players from three communities met together on Monday night at Highland Lakes to play some very impressive Pickleball games.  Three players from Arlington Ridge were Brad, Dennis & Joan.  Three players from Legacy were Rueben, Pete & Nancy.  Add those up with nine players from Highland Lakes and we had a good group for some great games.  Thanks to our Inter-Community players who help keep our Pickleball games at the highest level of play during the summer months.  We have a great time and meet some wonderful people from different communities.


Maureen Schulz is one of our new Pickleball players, she has been learning how to play Pickleball on the non-impact court.  Last night was her fourth day coming to play.  She has mastered the non-impact court and has moved on to join the regular players.  Watch out guys, she has one powerful serve.  We are very proud of her accomplishments.  "Way to go, Maureen"!
     

                                    

 

Thursday Morning Pickleball

At Pickleball this morning we had three nets going. We had a new person trying to learn how to play the game of Pickleball her name is Maureen Schulz. She is doing very well as  you can see by the pictures below.  Welcome Maureen to our Pickleball group.  Ed Donovan was out playing this morning as well as Joel and Dyan Zimmerman.
  

Monday Night Inter-Community play at Highland Lakes 5-24-10

There was a great crowd playing Pickleball Monday night. We had four players from Legacy and 5 players from Arlington Ridge join us for Inter-Community play.  We are so glad they could join us and we hope to see them again soon.  We always appreciate a good game of Pickleball with our Inter-Community friends.  Highland Lakes has invited Pickleball Players from Hawthorne, Legacy, Arlington Ridge, Pennbrooke & Water Oaks to join us on Monday nights at 6:30 pm - Tuesday & Thursday mornings at 8:30 am - Friday mornings at 9:30 am - Sunday afternoons at 3:00 pm to join us on our indoor Pickleball Courts.

Welcome back John and Bebina Zeis to our community.

It's official now, Bebina is back to stay. We welcome her and John with open arms and I'm sure we'll be seeing Bebina playing Pickleball more often now.
This morning Ed Donovan came in to try his hand at playing Pickleball.  It was his first time ever playing the game and he did very well.  We want to welcome Ed Donovan to our Pickleball group.
Today, we had 3 nets going full force and everyone played some good hard games and even though some of us lost, we still came off the court laughing and having lots of fun.
 

Bebina is back!

Ed is showing us that he can play this game.

Look at that serve.

OK Ed, you past the test.  You're in!

Inter-Community play has started here at Highland Lakes on May 18, 2010

Hawthorne, Highland Lakes and Pennbrooke participated in our first day of Inter-Community play for the summer of 2010.  We had four players from Hawthorne and seven players from Pennbrooke join us in some good Pickleball games.  We welcomed both communities and hope they will join us again throughout the summer.

On our Low Impact Court we had a new player who wanted to learn how to play the Pickleball.  His name is Jim and he is a new resident to Highland Lakes.  Welcome Jim!

The pictures tell the whole story, everyone was having fun and that is what Pickleball is all about.   

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Inter-Community play is starting at 5 different Communities.

Highland Lakes as well as all other Communities have many snowbirds going North for the summer months.  This is the reason we have incorporated Inter-Community Pickleball play with other Communities in our area.  We have 5 Communities interested in joining Highland Lakes for Inter-Community Pickleball play during the summer months.  Hawthorne, Pennbrooke, Legacy, Arlington Ridge and Water Oaks.  Highland Lakes has invited these Communities to join us to play Pickleball on our regular scheduled days.  Pickleball Players from Pennbrooke and Hawthorne will be joining us on Tuesday morning May 18th.  Monday night May 24th Arlington Ridge will be joining us for some fun games.  We are still waiting to hear when Legacy will be joining us.  I will keep you informed as soon as everything is finalized for the Inter-Community play.
Today, we had 3 nets going on a Sunday afternoon with a total of 12 to 14 people playing.  There were great games played with lots of fun and laughter.

Irene's forehand.

Irene eyeing the ball.

Irene's backhand.

Mike Guenst aiming to get that ball.

Dan Juran is wondering what happened.

Bob Cuenin, your not supposed to catch the ball.

Bill Guenst, plays a mean game.

Pat Neafsey, gets his serve across.

 

Happy Mother's Day to our Pickleball players.

Today was Mother's Day and still the Pickleball players were on the courts to play some fun games.  We had two nets going full force for several hours.  There were some intense games going on and as usual everyone was having fun.

Judy M. and Cindi

Bob C. and Janet

Susan C. & Nancy

Janet, Dan and Ken
Even though we're loosing folks to the snowbird factor it was still a good day for pickleball.  We had 4 courts going today with players sitting out.  Don G. came by to say good bye as he will be leaving tomorrow.  His right hand was swollen from a wasp sting so he was unable to play a last game with us.  We will definitely miss him this summer.

Richard waiting for the serve

Bill coming back with a tricky dink shot

Looks like Richard is going for a smash!

Even though we're loosing players that are heading north for the summer we are still getting about 3 courts worth.  We had some good games today and a fun time.
Saw Manny last night and it looks like he is making a good recovery and will be back on the court with us in a couple of months.
Joel was in fine form last night on the court after his long absence caused by health problems.  It's good to see him and Dyan back.