Happy Valentine's Day to all Pickleball Players

Monday is Valentine's Day so we weren't surprised to see Karen Orman walk into Pickleball dressed for the holiday. Karen dresses for every holiday, she has it all, shirts, hats, socks etc. She brings laughter and lots of fun to our Pickleball group. Thanks Karen for being you.

Sunday afternoon Pickleball clinic.

This afternoon we had a Pickleball clinic which was given by Brenda & Dave Littlefield from Citrus Hill. There were a total of 32 Pickleball players who took advantage of this clinic. Thanks guys for a great tournout.  Visiting us was John Eric from CT.  Hope to see you tomorrow night at Monday Night Pickleball.  John Eric is Don Gullakson's grandson. 

Mondeay night Pickleball at Highland Lakes

Monday night at 6:30 pm is when we teach new Pickleball players at Highland Lakes. We had several players on Monday night who want to learn our exciting game.  Al and Maria Grieze were back practicing on our courts.  They have been here several times and Al Grieze has moved on to play with the regular group of players.  Maria will be practicing some more until she feels comfortable to move on.  Jim Wise is brand new to the game and was doing really well towards the end of the night.  Visiting was Barbie who is Dick Mell's daughter come to join us on the courts for some teaching time.  Now that it's winter our courts are in full swing.  We have four courts going continuously.  We always have several people waiting to play and the rotation seems to be going pretty well. 

There are two rules that are to be followed.
 1) When a player leaves the Arena for any reason he brings his paddle with him/her and upon return goes to the end of the line.
2) When it is your turn to play and you don't want to go in at that particular time, "for whatever reason" you go to the end of the line.  These two rules will be enforced in order to make the game enjoyable for everyone.

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Geezer Meister Tournament on 1/14/2011

We "the Pickleball players from Highland Lakes" are proud of our three Pickleball players from Highland Lakes and one Pickleball player from Legacy who entered the Geezer Meister Tournament at Spruce Creek.  Lynn Corbett & Susan Clark were partners in this event that took place at 8:30 this morning. They were very brave to play outdoors this morning in this cold weather.  Bill Guenst & Dave Wenzel were partners in the 1:00 event. Even though they did not win any prizes it was a good experience for all of them and we give them credit for trying something different

Way to go, guys!

Merry Christmas to all our Pickleball friends!

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Our Annual Pickleball Pizza Party

Thank You everyone for making our Annual Pickleball Pizza Party such a big success. We had a great group of people who came to enjoy Pizza, salad and so many desserts. Thanks to all who brought the salads and desserts. They also came to play Pickleball and enjoy each others company. There were four nets going and a line of people waiting to get on the courts as you can tell by the pictures.
Everyone seemed to be in the holiday spirit with their Santa hats and Christmas socks.  Bob Cuenin even had his Buffalo Bill socks on tonight.  It was a fun evening.

Pickleball, Pickleball, Pickleball Rock

Pickle balls ping and Pickle balls ring
Bouncing and volleying up barrels of fun
Now the Pickle hop has begun.
Pickleball, Pickleball, Pickleball rock
Pickle balls ping at Pickleball time
Dinking and lobbing in Pickleball courts
What a good time, it's the right time
To play the day away
Pickleball time is a swell time
To go sliding on a Pickleball day
Giddy-up Pickleball partner, pick up your feet
Pickle around the clock
Mix and a-mingle on the Pickleball court
That's the Pickleball,
That's the Pickelball,
That's the Pickleball Rock.

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Monday Night Pickleball

Tonight we had three new players who wanted to learn how to play Pickleball. Al & Maria are new homeowners here at Highland Lakes. Joe is new to Pickleball and wants to learn how to play the game. They did very well considering this was their first time playing. We even played a couple of games with the help of Dave Wenzel and Dena Randall. Thank You guys for helping out with the new players.

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Sunday Afternoon Pickleball

This was the largest crowd we've had on a Sunday afternoon for quite some time. At one point we had a total of 18 players.  We had a few snowbirds return this week.  Welcome Back to Ron Eversole and Dave & Judy Wenzel.  The snowbirds have not lost their touch for playing Pickleball even though they have been away for awhile.  They had some great games and were having fun playing Pickleball.
Irene Blenis was back from her visit up North.  Welcome back, Irene.
  

Pickleball Clinic

Information for all our Pickleball players,

About a month ago we had a special request of 4 people from 3 different communities asking if they could practice on one of our indoor courts on Sunday afternoons for three weeks.

The reason being is that they were practicing for the Tour State Senior Games which will be held at Ft. Myers on December 4-5. This tournament is being held indoors and neither one of them was accustomed to playing Pickleball indoors. They all have outdoor courts in their communities. They are Jim Spurlock of Plantation, Jack Trafalski & Brenda Littlefield of Citrus Hill and Sheryl Greiner of the Villages. In return for our hospitality Brenda Littlefield is providing us with a free Pickleball clinic for our Pickleball players at Highland Lakes.


This clinic will be held Sunday afternoon on January 30, 2011 at 2:00 PM. Write it on your calendar and come down to the arena and have some fun.


I will be sending out a reminder as the time gets closer.


Thank You
M&M

Tour State Senior Games coming up in December.

Today we had the pleasure of watching four Pickleball players play some outstanding Pickleball games. These players were using our indoor courts to practice for the Tour State Senior Games which will be held at Ft. Myers, FL on December 4-5.  These players were Jim Spurlock from Plantation, Jack Trafalski from Citris Hills, Brenda Littlefield from Citris Hill and Sheryl Greiner from the Villages.

Pickleball on Halloween October 31st and Voting Day November 2nd.

Sorry, the Blog has not been updated lately but I have been up North for a month visiting family but I am back now and I will try to keep it updated as much as I can.  A Thank You to Lynn Corbett for updating the Blog with pictures of our Pickleball group who were hosting the Saturday morning breakfast on October 9, 2010.  I'd like to Thank everyone who helped serve the breakfast and made this event a huge success.  As you can see Karen Orman is back wearing her Halloween ears.  Welcome back to Karen Orman, Gerry Crowell and Dena Randall.  Glad to have you back.  We are getting lots of snow birds back for the winter months but not all of them have been back to playing Pickleball.  We are looking forward to there return.  We miss them all when they leave for the summer months.  The Arena was being used for Voting on November 2nd so we took our Pickleball game to the outdoor courts.  It is different playing outdoors but we still had a wonderful time and the weather was good.  Kathy Carter was out there playing Pickleball with her son.

Saturday Pickleball Breakfast October 9, 2010

There was a good turnout for the Saturday breakfast that was sponsored by the Highland Lakes pickleball group.  There was also a good turnout in pickleball players to work the breakfast.  The pickleball players that were present to help out were Bill, Cathy, Mike, Beverly, Dean, John, Bebina, Nancy, Dorothy, Irene, Maureen, Renee, Janet, Susan, Marvin, Ken and Lynn.  And Manny was scrambling the eggs.  They were the best!  John and Dean were the pot washers and they did an excellent job with no complaints.  Please let me know if I left anyone out.
I took a few photos and they are below.