MAY 2025 Habersham County Pickleball Club
- John Bigelow
- May 23
- 2 min read
GREETINGS Pickle y'allers.
THANK YOU volunteers and organizers.
THANK YOU sponsors.
THANK YOU participants.
Your time, commitment, and support have created our third successful tournament. It isn't an exaggeration to say, "it couldn't have happened without you". The planning, promotion, registration, bracket set up, court managing, results tracking, medal determination, sponsor solicitation, court preparation, sign hanging and clean up, etc. pale in comparison to the magic of moving from outside to inside, back to outside, and then inside again for the finale. Come on now, y'all. That ain't nuthin! It's sumthin'.
RULES CLUES: 6.C.9. While the ball is in the air, if a player yells "out", "no", or "bounce it", or any words to communicate to their partner that the ball may be out, it shall be considered player communication only and not considered a line call.
6.C.10. An "out" call made after the ball bounces is a line call. The ball is dead and play shall stop. Please note there are specific methods proscribed for "appealing" "out" calls. (Hint: asking spectators is not among them).
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VOLUNTEER APPRECIATION LUNCHEON will be held at the Aquatic Center on Wednesday, June 25th at 12:00. A celebration of all those folks who gave of themselves to help make HCPC have another successful year. Please keep on the lookout for a sign up email for the luncheon. We'll need a headcount.
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COMING ATTRACTIONS. Carve out some time and mark up your calendars. Future events:
2025
June 25 - Volunteer Appreciation Luncheon
August 9 - Summer Sizzle Day Tournament
October 12 - November 23 - Fall Habersham MLP
December 10 - Holiday Potluck
2026
February 12 - Dink Your Heart Out
March 1 - April 25 - Spring Habersham MLP
May1&2 - Picklesham Palooza Tournament
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For the statisticians among us, PICKLESHAM PALOOZA #3 drew 159 players contesting 283 matches throughout. Ages ranged from14 - 87 representing seven states and 36 Georgia cities outside of Habersham County. Financial donations from the proceeds were made to Habersham Chamber of Commerce FLEX Program and Circle of Hope. If you are keeping track, since December 2021, we have given over $42,000 to the community and Parks and Recreation Department. Good on US.
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COURT ROTATION. OK! All sets of courts (2 inside and 1 outside) have the same rotation pattern during REC PLAY. At the completion of your game (before you add your group's paddles to the line), if there are 6 or fewer paddles waiting, the winners stay and split and the first two paddles in line are the next 2 players in. If there are 7 or more in line, all four players leave the court and 4 next in line take the court. If you wish to stack paddles to play together (i.e. when prepping for a tournament) paddles are stacked on the paddle FURTHEST from the front. WE good?
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HCPC Board
Our next Board meeting will be June 17th at 12:30 in the Activity Room at the Aquatic Center. There is time on the agenda for your thoughts and suggestions. As always, we welcome you to join us.
And that's enough of that!
John Bigelow
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