BOISE AREA PICKLEBALL ASSOCIATION

A heartfelt thank you goes out to:

• Fred Slonaker, who served four years on the BAPA Executive Board as Treasurer.
• Scott Michaelson, who served as BAPA President 2019-2020 and got us through the COVID shutdown.  He leaves after serving three years on the Board.
• David Grube, who served this past year as BAPA President (and to his wife Patty!).  Dave will remain on the Board, serving as immediate-past-President.

The Annual Meeting of the Boise Area Pickleball Association was held September 7, 2021.  Chris Mounier was elected President-elect.  Kathy Getto was elected Treasurer.  They join existing Board members: Brian Tracy, President; Katie Lamm, Secretary; and David Grube, immediate-past-President.

From ThePickler.com

Mental health has been in the headlines in the sports world lately, including the world of tennis with Naomi Osaka’s absence from two of the majors (if you haven’t heard, you can hear from Osaka herself in her article published in Time).

Mental health and the mental side of pickleball has also been a recent topic of conversation, as Lea Jansen has been the first pro pickleball player to really be outspoken about it in connection with her series of consecutive women’s singles wins at the APP Cincinnati Open (in fact, she won the triple crown), PPA Orange County Cup, and USA Pickleball Newport Beach Championships.

Read the full article...

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Boise Parks and Recreation has approved a new rotation system at Hobble Creek Park. It is effective immediately and signs are posted on the courts. 

The rotation will be used when all courts in the complex are full and players are waiting to play.

It consists of three paddle lines -- one for each set of four courts.

Waiting players choose which set of courts they want to play on and use the paddle holders for those courts to get in line to play.

Players can play either singles or doubles pickleball.

Registration is now open for the Middlekauff Magic Valley Mustang Rally - a SSIPA circuit tournament. 

The tournament will be held at Frontier Park in Twin Falls, ID. 

Events include: 

Men's Doubles Age/Skill (Age groupings: every 5 years over 50)

Mixed Skill Doubles Age/Skill (Age groupings: every 5 years over 50)

Women's Skill Doubles Age/Skill (Age groupings: every 5 years over 50)

To register, go to PickleballTournaments.com. 

For more information, email GB Sneed at sgbs2212@msn.com. 

Submitted by Lawana Johnson (View the original article with images.) 

The first Pacific Northwest Regional held last month at Settlers’ Park and the new Hobble Creek Pickleball Complex, was the last of the USAPA’s Regional Tournaments which were qualifying tournaments for the 2021 USAPA Nationals to be held at the end of the year. Several of our top players won Gold Medals at our outstanding regional where 934 players from 32 states & provinces played in tough matches. They competed especially hard here because winning a Gold Medal also won them a coveted “Golden Ticket” to register early and lock down a spot to play in the important 2021 USAPA Nationals.

Nationals will again be held at the famous and world class Indian Wells Tennis Gardens in California and is anticipated to be the largest pickleball tournament in the world. For tournament players, winning a “Golden Ticket” is especially critical for this year’s Nationals because the turnout is expected to be so HUGE that some players likely will not get in. In fact, our winners are already utilizing their “Golden Tickets” to register, whereas players who did not win the coveted ticket have to wait till August 1 to try to, hopefully, finally get a spot in a lottery-style registration which will be enormous.

*There may be some other Golden Ticket winners from our area we were not aware of for this article. Please let us know about them so they can be recognized.

Alice Tym recently wrote an article about the Pacific Northwest Regional Pickleball Tournament that took place at Hobble Creek and Settlers Park in June. 

The article appeared in the Pickleball Magazine where Tym is a regular contributor. 

Idaho's capitol city, Boise, was the host of the Pacific Northwest Regional Pickleball championships and what a welcome it gave to the over 900 players from 30 states and provinces including New York and Ontario. 

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Local players from Idaho, Carson Spencer, Margo Hunter, and Dick Johnson, as well as many others worked for eight years to get pickleball courts built at Hobble Creek. 

Read the entire article.  

282 shifts still available ~ please sign up! 

Plea from Darla Sautter, PNWRC Director of Volunteers:

Dear Boise Area (and beyond) pickleball players and enthusiasts --

We are just over the halfway mark in filling up the volunteer slots for the PNWR Championships coming up soon -- but that means we still have about 280 slots to fill.  And this is after paring down and combining some categories.  If you have not signed up yet, please consider doing so.  Please sign up for more than one shift if you can -- we will feed you a light meal for each shift worked. If you are a player, your can find your start time and location under "Schedule" on the main tournament page. If you want to know your end time, e-mail me (they have been estimated and I have a list; the TD says they're pretty accurate). 

Link for volunteer sign ups --> https://pickleballdesk.com/signup/116

GREATEST NEED - Please look at shifts especially in the Check-In, Generalist, and Operations Assistant categories and specifically look for cases where less than half of the requested number of volunteers for that shift have signed up. You can tell by clicking the two different down arrows in the category/shift area (don't just hit "register," but click the down arrow first).  If it says something like 0/2 or 1/5 or 2/9, those are areas of greater need.  If you see something like 3/4 or 6/9, there are shifts available, but the need is greater elsewhere. 

There are also other shifts/categories besides those listed above where less than half of the requested number of volunteers for that shift have signed up so you're welcome to look for those, too. 

This is a huge fundraiser for USA Pickleball's Pacific Northwest Region and funds raised from this tournament will help with promoting and expanding pickleball options in the Boise area and all over the Pacific Northwest. This premier event is going to be a great time and hopefully will return again in future years!  Thank you for signing up to help this endeavor succeed. 

Please let me know if you have any questions! 

DARLA HILL SAUTTER
Director of Volunteers
2021 PNW Regional Championships
Presented by Selkirk
(509) 312-9339 - phone/text

After three grueling days of figuring out what was wrong with navigating to our website, our ultimate GURU, Kathy Getto, has solved the problems and things are working swimmingly.

We'd love to collect our members' feedback on the Heroes Memorial Tournament - the poll/survey is open until June 22, 2021.  Click the link below to submit your feedback.

HMT Survey/Poll

Pickleball is showing up everywhere!  Check out the latest professionals playing the sport:

It's in the Chicago Cubs bullpen:

https://www.mlb.com/pirates/video/the-cubs-play-pickleball

and the Seattle Seahawks training camp: