The Hula Hoop Challenge

The Hula Hoop took the world by storm in 1958. We have revived it almost 60 years later to make enough $$ at our Holiday Party to give Dan McGrath, Director of Wakefield Recreation, a Christmas Gift

Pickleball Anthem

Thanks to Nancy Errico for the video

Prescott AZ

What forward thinking communities can do!

Pickleball Poem

                   Pickleball’s My Game                 

I may be a little older

And feeling more pain

But it won’t keep me away

Cuz pickleball’s my game

Soon I will head south

With paddle in tow

Golf clubs in the trunk

Playing pickleball and so

If I don’t come back

There are others prepared

To make the load light

When duties are shared

Of course in good time

After searching for fame

I’ll return more humbled

Cuz pickleball’s my game

Friends and family count most

At the end of the day

And we have more fun

Cuz of the game we play.

May your winter fly by

No intent to inflame

I’ll be playing outdoors

Cuz pickleball’s my game

Peter Sullivan

                                            December 2017                                            

Billerica Pickleball

See Bobby Devaney's link below to the Billerica Program coming in January. Register now.

Billerica now has pickleball. To sign up follow this link http://recreation.town.billerica.ma.us/wbwsc/webtrac.wsc/wbsearch.html?xxmod=AR&xxtype=ADULT&wbsi=d0ba0f9c-b781-7598-e711-00e0061a43c6

Holiday Fun Tournament in Marlborough

Holiday Team Challenge Pickleball  Invitational Tournament – December 30, 2017, starting at 12:30 at Fore Kicks in Marlborough, MA with an awards ceremony and pizza party including a beer and wine cash bar immediately following upstairs in the Fore Kicks lounge. The cost for play & pizza just $20.

Join some of the top 5 pickleball organizations from New England as they do battle for the prestigious Winners Cup Trophy.   Each team will consist of 20 – 24 players (10 – 12 men and 10 – 12 women) in four age groups made up of  50 – 59, 60 – 64, 65 – 69, and 70 plus.  Each age group will include a Men’s Doubles, Women’s Doubles  and Mixed Doubles team.  Players can only play in one division.  Age will be as of 12/31/17.  Players can play down in an age group but can not go up in an age group.

This is a round robin tournament format consisting of 11 point games win by one.  The winning team will be awarded by calculating finishes per division.  The first place winner in each division will earn 5 points for their team, second place 4 points,

third place 3 points, fourth place 2 points, and fifth place 1 point.  Each team's top 10 scores will be calculated to determine the team champion.

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Link to Yan's sign-up page ; ​http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0b4ea9ad2da1f58-team

Link to our website sign-up page ; http://www.wardparkpball.org/events

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