MP Pickler Brings home the Gold Medal again

The Heartland County Senior Games were played at the Tanglewood Community pickleball courts in Sebring on Friday and Saturday March 11, and 12. MP Pickler Rich Donald competed in both the doubles and mixed doubles competition.

Rich and his partner Linda Kramer from Sebring took 1st place in the 60-64 age division in the the mixed doubles, and he also took first place in the men's doubles with his partner Roger Carson. It was a great tournament! Even Rich and Roger's friends Silly Willy and Fluffy ( Pickleball playing Bob, and Lavern_ came over from Peace River to watch them play, and managed to get themselves in the picture when Roger and Rich were awarded their medals.

Meadow Point Brings Home The Gold Again

The Lee County Senior Games took place at the Wa-Ke Hatchee Recreation Center in Ft. Myers on Saturday and Sunday, February 26th and 27th.

More than 100 players participated in Men's and Ladies Doubles, Mixed Doubles and Singles competition in the two day double elimination event. Rich Donald and his partners Gary Shinderle and Linda Kramer took fist place in the 60-69 age division.

Great Job!

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Swing into Summer Shindig

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Rich brings home the GOLD

On February 11th and 12 the Collier County Senior Games were played at the East Naples Community Park in Naples, Fl.

More than 90 players competed in the two day event which included Singles, Doubles and Mixed Doubles. This was a double elimination tournament, best two out of three games in the winners bracket and gold medal matches, and one game to 15 in the consolation bracket.

Rich partnered up with Gary Shinderle from Avon Park and Linda Kramer from Sebring. He competed in the 60-64 age bracket in the Doubles and took first place. In the mixed doubles competiton the age bracket was 60-69.....and he and Gary also took first place.

Rich will be playing again for Meadow Pointe on February 26th and 27th, with the same partners in Ft. Myers for the Lee County Senior Games.

Hiedi- Hi-Ho takes 1at place

Pickleball players....................and their pets are #1.....

Message from Ruthann.........

Hi, Thought you would get a chuckle from this picture. We were at an RV rally and show in Brooksville Florida this past week. We were in a parade and the theme was "Go Western". AND I HAD A GRRREAT TIME!!

Love ya,
Heidi Hi ho.

Heide won 1st Place.........I think Mom, Ruthann deserves honorable mention, don't you?

Meadow Point Picklers Sweep Mixed Doubles!

On Saturday, January 29th, MP Picklers, Chris, Karen and her son Zachery and Rich and Donna participated in 5th Annual Winter in Paradise Pickleball Wing Ding at Kings Point in Sun City Center.

Above are some pictures of Rich and Chris who partnered together in the men's doubles competitive draw.

Above are pictures of Chris and Karen who partnered together in mixed doubles, and of Zachary.......YES ZACHARY! He went with his mom to watch the games, but one of the ladies was in need of a partner in the recreational draw of the competition - so Zachary got to compete!

All of us came home winners! Karen and Chris took 2nd place in the mixed competitive, Rich and Nadine took 3rd. Zachary and his partner, Val took 3rd place in the recreational draw, and Donna and her partner Dean took 1st place in the mixed doubles competitive draw.

It was a long day. We started at 8:00 am and didn't finish until after 4:00 in the afternoon. But we all had a great time representing Meadow Pointe in the tournament.

There is going to be another one in April - so practice up- and let's get a bigger representation!

PICKLEBALL WING DING IN SUN CITY CENTER

Louann and the Kings Point Pickleball Club is holding another Pickleball Wing Ding. Some of you went to the last one, had a great time. Come again!!!! And encourage more of our MP Picklers to come and join in!!!.

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Sweet Sport with Sour Name

Shout out to The Pickleball Community --

A CBS news reporter and crew visited The Villages approximately 1 month ago, met with many resident players and observed how the sport is taught and played in The Villages. They filmed various pickleball activities to be aired on CBS


Below is the segment that aired on the CBS Early Show on Friday December 17th.
Sweet Sport with Sour Name - Inside the Pickleball Craze -

MP PICKLERS ENJOY RALLY TALLY IN SUN CITY

What an absolutely perfect day for a pickleball tournament. John and Bonnie, Chris, Karen, Cindy and Rich and Donna represented Meadow Pointe at the Rally Tally Tournament held at Kings Point in Sun City Center. Don was registered to play, but as you all know a recent alergic reaction put Don in the hospital instead of at the tournament. We really did miss having him with us, especially his partners John and Donna!!

Because of the extremely large number of participants and only three courts, the game scoring was changed from the traditional 11 point win by 2, to rally scoring to 13 points win by 2. Rally scoring means that a point is won on every volley regardless of whether you serve or not. Chris thought it would be a good thing to implement at home to reduce wait time between games when there was a large turnout to play.

That is Louann,in the green shirt welcoming players as they arrive to check in.

Each player received a goodie bag upon check in complete with a fruit drink, granola bar, crackers and other goodies.........

Each player/team wore their name tag with their team number. Above is the team play rotation for the opening doubles event. Men's and Woman's doubles were played in the morning, followed by mixed doubles in the afternoon. John, Karen and Cindy only played in the doubles, while Rich, Chris and Donna stayed to play mixed in the afternoon. Donna had to find a new partner!

Above, John waits for his number to be called and Bonne (who was our cheering spectator for the day) settles in. She will soon shed the sweatshirt and work on the "suntan" as she enjoys some really good competition today.

John and his partner take to the court. John and Don were supposed to be partners, but Louann found Mike, a Kings Point player to partner up with John. Both of these guys played some very good, close, competitive games!

Karen and Cindy take to the courts and prevail over Kings Point playes Ellen and Shirley.

And Rich and Chris take to the court for their first game. Both of them started out a little shaky - but had no problem pulling out a win!

Here's Donna playing doubles with her partner, Sally from Torrey Oaks RV park in Bowling Green. They lost their first match - ending up the day with 2 for 5....... No medal today - but lots of fun trying!

Rich and Chris - on their way to the Gold (Blue Ribbon). They won 4 of their five matches. The only loss? Tell you ...........in a minute.

Karen's son Zachary came along today and had a ring side seat to watch the competition and cheer on his mom..........

Meadow Pointe against Meadow Point..........Rich and Chris next have to face John and his partner Mike for their only loss of the day. John and Mike prevail in this game!!

Another shot of some of the spectators/players waiting to play.

That's Chris looking on in the back as John goes for a tough shot and makes a great return.

Rich and Chris win the final game to take the Gold.

Karen and Cindy show off the Blue Ribbons they took for first place in their woman's doubles draw. Great Job!

Rich plays in the afternoon with his mixed doubles partner, Nancy Meyer from Ft. Myers. They took the Bronze (Third Place-White Ribbon). Congrats!!!

Chris and his mixed doubles partner, Louann, win the gold (Blue Ribbon) against second place winners Bruce (Wauchula) and Jane (Kings Point). This was the playoff game for the gold.

Donna teamed up with Don (from Kings Point) and took the gold in their recreational draw.

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE MEADOW POINTE PLAYERS. WE ALL HAD A GREAT PICKLEBALL DAY!.

TO OUR PICKLEBALL FRIEND , D O N

YOUR

HOPE TO SEE YOU ON THE COURTS SOON!