Come join the fun and find out! Learn about pickleball on Tuesday, Feb. 10, at 2 p.m. Space is limited to 24 people. Registration closes at 3 p.m. the day before the session! Please arrive 15 minutes early at the Ramada for paperwork. Visit our website at.sbrpickleball.club to register, then click on “Click to reserve…
Tag: pickleball
February 2026, Sports
Relishing Pickleball: Mastering the Spin Game
David Zapatka Spin is one of the most underrated game-changing skills. While beginners often focus on simply getting the ball over the net, intermediate and advanced players know that adding spin can create awkward bounces, force errors, and open up the court. Whether you’re looking to sharpen your offensive tools or add finesse to your…
January 2026, Sports
What Is Pickleball?
Come join the fun and find out! Learn about pickleball on Tuesday, Jan. 13, at 2 p.m. Registration closes at 3 p.m. the day before the session! Please arrive 15 minutes early at the Ramada for paperwork. Space is limited to 24 people, so visit our website at sbrpickleball.club to register, then click on “Click…
January 2026, Sports
Relishing Pickleball: Aggressive Dinking
David Zapatka Dinking is often misunderstood as purely defensive play—a soft, patient exchange while you wait for your opponent to make a mistake. The most effective pickleball players know that dinking can be a powerful offensive weapon. Aggressive dinking transforms you from a passive participant into the player dictating the pace and creating opportunities to…
January 2026, Clubs & Classes
Spotlight on Ron Lenz
Joyce Wainscott Intensely observant, intellectually curious, precisely diagnostic, and laser-focused on problem solving: all terms defining Ron Lenz, past president of SaddleBrooke Sunrise Rotary. Ron was born in Wisconsin in 1947; his brother Russell in 1955. Their father was a sheet metal worker, their mother a homemaker. In 1957 Ron’s family moved to the maternal…
Sports, December 2025
What Is Pickleball?
Come join the fun and find out! Learn about pickleball on Tuesday, Dec. 9, at 3 p.m. Registration closes at 3 p.m. the day before the session! Please arrive 15 minutes early at the Ramada for paperwork. Space is limited to 24 people, so visit our website at www.sbrpickleball.club to register, then click on “Click…
November 2025, Sports
What Is Pickleball?
Come join the fun and find out! Learn about pickleball on Tuesday, Nov. 11, at 3 p.m. Registration closes at 3 p.m. the day before the session! Please arrive 15 minutes early at the Ramada for paperwork. Space is limited to 24 people, so visit our website at sbrpickleball.club to register, then click on “Click…
September 2025, Sports
What Is Pickleball?
Come join the fun and find out! Learn about pickleball on Tuesday, Sept. 9, at 3 p.m. Please arrive 15 minutes early at the Ramada for paperwork. Space is limited to 28 people, so visit our website at.sbrpickleball.club to register, then click on “Click to reserve a space” below the flyer sign. What you’ll need…
Sports, August 2025
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!
The Dinking Divas braved higher temperatures to play pickleball in June.