Pickleball Sunday Afternoon 7-11-10

We started our pickleball session today at 2:00 and had 5 players there already.  4 more followed and 2 more were right behind them.  The first game started off with Ken and Donna playing Maureen and I.  There were 16 players today.  Rich and Donna came down to play with us from The Villages.  Carolyn, Ed, Bob and Flo came over from Hawthorne and Nancy and Susan came from Legacy.  Maureen, Ed, Irene, Jim, Bill, Bob F., Ken and I were all from HL.  It was a good turnout and we played till almost 4:30.

Pickleball Tuesday Morning 7-6-10

It seems that our intercommunity play is getting stronger.  Ric, Maureen, Bob and Doris joined us from Pembrooke and Susan, Nancy, Frank L., John, and Bob came over from Legacy.  The HL players were Mat, Janet, Bill, Joel, Karl, Ken and I.  We had a total of 16 pickleball players today.

Pickleball Monday Night 7-5-10

23 pickleball players turned out for some competitive and lively pickleball games.  5 Hawthorne players came over, 6 Legacy players and 1 Water Oaks player joined us.  11 were HL players including 2 grandsons.  Those present for the games were Bob, Carolyn, Ed, Gloria and Flo from Hawthorne, Frank L., Susan, Nancy, John, Mark and Frank from Legacy, Mario from Water Oaks, Bob F., Bob M., Cindi, Anita, Beverly, Casey, Dean, Richard, Mat, John, Ken and I were all from HL.  Mat and John were the visiting grandsons.  It was John's first time to play a racquet type sport and by the end of the evening he was playing very well.

4TH of July Pickleball Sunday Afternoon

Since it was the 4th of July today we didn't know what to expect as far as pickleball players.  Who would come..... but 6 players from Hawthorne came over, 1 from Legacy, and 5 of us from Highland Lakes.  We had a great time and lots of very competitive games were played.  Mary Alice, Carolyn, Ed, Bob, George & Gloria came over  from Hawthorne, Susan came from Legacy, and from HL there was Maurene, Dan, Connie, Ken and Lynn.  A total of 12 players.

Pickleball Pictures Thursday Morning 7-1-10

There were 11 pickleball players for Thursday's session.  Those present were Cindi, Maurene, Cathy, Mat, Steve & Brad from Pembrook, Judy, Harry, Susan, Ken and Lynn  

Pickleball Session Tuesday Morning 6-29-10

 
This morning we had 13 pickleball players.  2 players from Pembroke came over and 1 from Legacy to join us.  Those present for today's session were Brad and Doris from Pembrooke, Frank from Legacy, Maureen, Janet, Cindi, Harry, Cathy, Susie, Jay, Judy B., Ken and I (Lynn).  Cathy came after her tennis match this morning.  She has not played pickleball in a long time but it didn't take her long to get back into the game with her skills.  Cathy plans to come back on Thursday.  Maybe she will become a regular member of our group.  We hope so!!  We are going to miss Susie and Jay as they are going on vacation.

Monday night we had the most players that we've had in a while.  17 pickleball players came.  The 9 from Legacy that came over really helped us out.  Those present were Frank, Mike John, Mark, Ruben, Bob M., Susan, Nancy, & Frank.... all from Legacy, and from HL were Anita, Cindi, Richard, Josh, Casey, Dean, Ken and I.  During our p'ball session we lost electricity momentarily as we were having a bad thunder storm.

Pickleball Session Sunday Afternoon 6-27-10

Sunday afternoon there were 7 of us for pickleball.  Susan, Nancy, Jim, Maureen, Bill, Ken and I.

Pickleball Friday Morning 6-25-10

Connie & Nancy...... serve em up Connie!!

Cindi & Ken

Who got that ball!!
Well first the good news!  Ken and I checked on the tennis courts outdoors this morning and court #6 has been painted for pickleball!  Now we have 2 courts outdoors that we can play on.  We made sure to remind the guy that was resurfacing the other tennis courts this week to paint our lines on #6.
A good group, as usual, showed up for some pickleball games today.  There were 12 players including Casey who several of us spent some time with hitting balls and playing some games with her.  The players today were Harry, Susie, Jay, Janet, Karl, Nancy, Connie, Mike, Cindi, Casey, Ken and I (Lynn).  I only had time to take a few photos during the last game which was Ken and Cindi playing Nancy and Connie.
On Thursday the players that were present were Harry, Susie, Jay, Nancy, Janet, Karl, Crystal, Betsy, Bill, Maureen, Ken & I.  We had 3 courts going.

Pickleball Tuesday Morning 6-22-10

We had 2 courts of pickleball this morning with 11 very good players.  Those present were John from Legacy, Susan also from Legacy, Susie, Jay, Bill, Richard, Janet, Karl, Maureen, Ken and I.... all from Highland Lakes.
Last night we also had 2 courts of pickleball.  5 Legacy players came over to help us out.

Jay and Susie Pettey are new to Pickleball and Highland Lakes.

Thanks to Manny who was available tonight to help teach our new players Casey, Jay and Susie how to play the game of Pickleball.  Jay & Susie Pettey are new to Pickleball and Highland Lakes.  They moved to Highland Lakes in February and are now ready to learn the game of Pickleball.  Welcome to our Pickleball group!  We had a great turnout tonight for Pickleball with four nets going.  We also had several players from Legacy join us for Inter-Community play.  There were many great games played and everyone was having fun.

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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.