Beginning Pickleball Session 2025

Community Education's Beginning Pickleball

How about trying a new sport pickleball! Seriously, it is the goofy name of a fast-growing game that’s a combination of tennis, ping-pong, and badminton.

Join this class to learn to play Pickleball, the fastest-growing sport in the world.  Pickleball is easy to learn (but difficult to master).  Pickleball is a lifetime sport that you will pick up quickly. Please make the commitment to all 4 nights. Wear comfortable clothing and a good pair of athletic shoes. Bring water. Equipment can be borrowed from the group to start.

June 3, 5, 10 and 12                          5:30-7:30 at high school courts 

   Michelle Hedin and  Matt Oberhelman will be instructing

$30              Please Plan to attend all classes. 

Pickleball is played on a court that’s about 40 percent of the size of a regulation tennis court. Players use wooden or composite rackets that are slightly larger than ping-pong paddles to hit a plastic ball back and forth over a net. The net is a few inches lower than a standard tennis net.

The game was invented in the 1960s by several parents vacationing in Bainbridge Island, Washington. The parents wanted their kids to do something outdoors instead of lying around inside all day.  They found a hodgepodge of equipment and invented a new sport.  Little did they know it would grow into the fastest-growing sport in the USA.