Welcome to The Pickleball Times!
The purpose of this newsletter and community is to share story-focused perspectives of the wild and amazing growth of pickleball. Especially since, in a lot of ways, it’s just getting started.
The Pickleball Times is an online newspaper where the stories of pickleball from all over—including your stories—are shared and celebrated. This includes the journeys of pro players, the dreams and efforts of aspiring pros, and the everyday people whose lives are being changed by this sport.
We also cover the “growing up” story of this entire industry, in people-focused ways both pickleball enthusiasts and the pickleball-curious can find inspiring, real, and helpful.
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About the writer.
The Pickleball Times is the result of my travels within and across the United States and discovering pickleball in a big way as I learned how to get into pickleball wherever I was. I’ve played in multiple communities and types of venues across the country, and met dozens of players, enthusiasts, business owners, community leaders, etc. These experiences have given me a unique perspective of the potential of this sport to unite strangers, combat loneliness, and make life way more fun.
There are some incredible stories within pickleball and many more to come, and I can’t wait to share them with you.
