Linda Shannon-Hills Are you a new resident to SaddleBrooke Ranch (SBR)? Join us for an informational presentation on Wednesday, Sept. 3, from 2:30 to 5 p.m. at the SBR Ranch House Sol Ballroom. You are invited to join us for the Newcomers Welcome Gathering to learn more about the SaddleBrooke Ranch community and other things…
Category: August 2025
August 2025, Sports
Play Your Best Pool: Improving a Few Parts of Your Game in a Short Time
Johnny Henson, Professor Pool When most players try to improve their games they sometimes work on too many changes all at once. It makes me think of the old quote: “Jack of all trades and master of none.” With this thought in mind, I want you to focus on just the shots that you miss…
August 2025, Sports
Relishing Pickleball: Don’t Hit Out Balls!
David Zapatka Let the bad ones go bad. This is a skill we all need to learn to improve our game. How can we become more aware of balls that are traveling out of bounds? Any shot by the opponent that lands out of bounds ends in a winning rally for your side. Don’t give…
August 2025, Sports
Attention All Snowbirds: APPL Wants YOU for the 2026 Season!
We know many snowbirds will not arrive back in Tucson until late in 2025 or early 2026, but you can still play on an Arizona Pickleball Players League (APPL) pickleball team! To learn more about the APPL and how to get involved in league play for the 2026 season, please email Pam McCallum at altair.mccallum@gmail.com.…
August 2025, Sports
Dinking Divas Brave the Heat!
August 2025, Sports
Senior Softball Action!

King Mitch Well, SaddleBrooke and SaddleBrooke Ranch Senior Softball fans, here it is June 25 and Progress deadline time. Just a couple games left on the spring season schedule, and then the softballers will be taking a break until the second week in July. Let me tell ya, there are more than a couple of…
August 2025, Sports
June Putters Awards
Pat Albu Due to the extreme summer heat, attendance at Putters has been down a bit, but we have our hearty core that holds the group together! Here are June’s winners: Low Gross First: Jacque Hendricks Second: Evelyn Silver Third: Gayle Richey Low Net First: Vickie Thomson Second: Karen Lambert Third: Gillian Cook 6 Holes-in-One…
Clubs & Classes, August 2025
May Putters Winners

Pat Albu Before the real Arizona heat set in, our Ranchette Putters had some very good scores in May. Here are our leaders for the month: Lowest Gross Average: Norma Tanner 34.0 Second Lowest Gross: Andrea Cothran 34.67 Third Lowest Gross: Linda Noble 34.75 Lowest Net Average: Debbie Penaluma 34.95 Second Lowest Net: Barb Cohn…
August 2025, Clubs & Classes
The Rotary Club of SaddleBrooke – August 2025

Happy New Year! New Rotary Year, That Is! Wendy Guyton, Fred Lowy, and Barbara Barr Bengen The Rotary Club of SaddleBrooke celebrated the 2024-25 Rotary year while ringing in the 2025-26 Rotary year with a “Passing the Gavel” festivity at the SaddleBrooke Ranch Ballroom. Rotary dignitaries, guests, and club members helped to honor the old…
Clubs & Classes, August 2025
SaddleBrooke Sunrise Rotary Quilt Sale Is ON!

Christianne Dettmann The SaddleBrooke Sunrise Rotary Club is excited to announce that its much-anticipated quilt sale will be held this coming Oct. 28 and 29 (Tuesday and Wednesday) at the Sunny Side Up Café in Catalina, Ariz. Located just south of SaddleBrooke at 15800 N. Oracle Road, the Café is graciously opening one of its…