September 15, 2025

Pickleball Club’s Fall Classic Tournament: We are just weeks away from the next club tournament to be held at our courts on November 8^th and 9^th. The registration flyer is available as an attachment to this email, on Team Reach, on the bulletin board at the court and on our website. In addition to your participation in the tournament, everyone is invited to participate in our “split the pot” raffle and our gift basket raffle. There will also be exciting merchandise on sale over the weekend. Finally, if you have or know of a business that would like to be a sponsor for the tournament, a $100 donation will allow the business to add an item to our player bags and also receive recognition on printed tournament information sheets. Contact Greg Eisman at 985-285-6267 if you are interested in being a sponsor. Please let other pickleball players in surrounding communities know about this tournament.

All eight courts will be used for the tournament on both days starting at 7:30 am until completion of the tournament.

Pickleball Clinics: Are you tired of losing to teams you should be beating? Do you want to do your best, regardless of your skill level, at the upcoming tournament? Would you like to master shots like the third shot drop or dink more consistently? These are just a few reasons why a pickleball lesson may help. Call Greg Eisman at 985-285-6267 to schedule.

November Elections: Our fall membership meeting will be on Monday, November 17^th at 6:00 p.m. in the Florida room. At last year’s meeting we changed the by-laws on the length of terms for board members. There will be four members elected for 2 years, and three members elected for 1 year. We also have a nominating committee set up for this year. Joe Norton is the chairman of that committee. I have heard members talking about some changes that they would like to make to the club. I feel that the best way to make these changes is to get involved. The best way of doing that is to be on the board of directors and then set up some committees. We have a lot of members with a lot of good suggestions. It would be nice to see some of these members on the board.

If you are interested in running for the board please contact Joe Norton, [email protected], or John Orton, [email protected], with your name, phone number and email. Hopefully we’ll have a large list of candidates.

Calendar of Events:

Saturday, September 20^th   Pizza Lunch at the Courts (rescheduled from rain out on September 9^th)

Tuesday, October 7^th   Pizza Night at the Courts

Sunday, October 19^th  Pickleball Marathon Challenge and social

Tuesday, November 4^th   Pizza Night at the Courts

Saturday, November 8^th  Tournament (Men’s and Women’s Doubles)

Sunday, November 9^th  Tournament (Mixed Doubles)

Saturday, November 15^th   Lunch social

Monday, November 17^th  Membership Meeting and Elections

Tuesday, December 9^th   Pizza Night at the Courts

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Saturday, January 23^rd  Tournament (Men’s and Women’s Doubles)

Sunday, January 24^th  Tournament (Mixed Doubles)

Friday, January 30^th  Annual Pickleball Club Dinner and Dancing

Sign up for all socials on Team Reach.

See you on the courts!!!