Washington state's official sport may be more popular in other states according to Google search trends. A look at the sport's origins during National Pickleball Month
The Chelan County Public Utility District (PUD) has re-opened the sports courts at six of its park locations.
Spokesperson Rachel Hansen says the courts had been closed for several months so the PUD could make a number of repairs and improvements...
I've known that Pickleball started here, somewhere in Washington state. But when and how was the game invented? To answer this, we have to go back to the height of Beatlemania.
The Birth of Pickleball
In the summer of 1965, on Bainbridge Island, Washington; two men couldn’t find enough badminton racquets for the family to play. They devi...
The sport courts at six Chelan County PUD parks will be temporarily closed for maintenance over the next three months.
The closures are necessary so the PUD can perform resurfacing of the courts and convert several that have been designed for tennis into use for pickleball...
We’ve all had some kind of nickname throughout our lives. Sometimes those nick names that were savagely given to us by a bully in junior high that had written that branded name on our underwear after giving us a wedgie.
State Senators Sam Hunt of Olympia and John Lovick of Mill Creek are the creators of Senate Bill 5616, which has already been introduced and aims to make pickleball Washington's official state sport.
Governor Jay Inslee is throwing his support behind the legislation, calling pickleball the most rapidly growing sport in the world and a great way to stay healthy throughout one's life
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The city of Ephrata coordinated with the Ephrata schools to convert old tennis courts at Columbia Ridge Elementary Courts into pickleball courts. Washington State University student and city of Ephrata intern, Josh Johnson, led the process for establishing the new recreational addition to the city...