Andrea Molberg Despite the heat, SaddleBrooke Pickleball Association (SPA) members had fun celebrating the Fourth of July with friends and food at the Ridgeview Pickleball courts. While waiting in line to play, club members could check out the patriotic costumes of fellow players, watch their techniques, nibble on delicious fruit and swap stories. The misters…
Shawne Cryderman Ed Mandler is a self-appointed Ridgeview courts cleanup guy. Every morning he arrives at the SaddleBrooke Pickleball Association courts and picks up all the balls, returns them to their individual court holders and makes sure each holder is full of non-cracked playable Onix Pure 2 pickleballs. Next he picks up trash around the…
Ken Powers leads a team of wonderful volunteers to keep the pickleball courts ready for the SaddleBrooke Pickleball Association (SPA)’s 720 plus members. Because they love the sport, these volunteers regularly give of their time and themselves on behalf of the club. Hopefully most are mentioned below and hopefully you’ll decide to join the group.…
Tom Kruse The HOA2 Transition Team and the HOA2 Golf Task Force have negotiated land for SaddleBrooke Pickleball Association to build more courts. If HOA2 residents approve the purchase of the Mountain View and Preserve Golf Courses, HOA2 will also gain ownership of the land that our current Ridgeview courts are built on and the…
10 Years of leadership Andrea Molberg SaddleBrooke Pickleball Association (SPA) is celebrating 10 years of play in SaddleBrooke and its current 712 members owe a lot to its leaders. Beth Patterson and her husband Dave spearheaded the effort to start pickleball play in SaddleBrooke. In those early days games were played in the street, later…
Andrea Molberg On March 28, SaddleBrooke Pickleball Association (SPA) celebrated turning 10 years old with lots of food, 90 attendees and Pat and Jerry Morris’ wonderful PowerPoint photo presentation. According to social committee chair Angela Martin, “Things got pretty hectic at times, but it was all well worth the efforts of the social committee. A…
Pete Giljohann The Robson Pickleball League BBQ Banquet with SaddleBrooke Ranch on Sunday, March 19, was a great success and the Final Tally and scores for the league were announced. The League matches were played from December through March with each community playing each of the other communities once. As expected PebbleCreek finished first with…
Andrea Molberg On the morning of February 1, 16 pickleball association members grabbed bags and donned safety vests for their first pick up of trash and debris along an adopted portion of Edwin Road from Columbus (eastern boundary) to Eagle Crest Parkway (western boundary). These four teams of four volunteers collected lots of paper and…
Andrea Molberg Why does someone agree to be a referee on a hot court for free? Steve Phillips’ answer is, “for the love of the game, to give back to the community and especially to surround myself with laughter, smiles and positive people.” After being diagnosed with renal cell kidney cancer in 2012, he and…
Pete Giljohann Gold, silver and bronze! SaddleBrooke Pickleball Association (SPA) was well represented at the fourteenth annual Duel in the Desert Pickleball Tournament at Palm Creek RV Resort in Casa Grande in early March. This year’s Duel in the Desert tournament played over four days had 518 participants and 690 matches. It is one of…