Pickleball is a great reason to earn you a Girl Scout Award

Hi there, folks! Welcome to Picklewho, the only Pickleball site that tries to make a joke at the beginning of each blog post, which means it will eventually run out of them. Oops.

The cool thing is, though, we have fresh news for you regarding our beloved sport:

• Of course pickleball is a great reason to earn you a Girl Scout Award!

• Pickleball won’t be banned if we find solutions. Let’s do that. Pleeasee!

• Warning: Converting your court is not that easy

Girl Scout awarded thanks to the beauty of Pickleball

Society loves three things: Pineapple on pizza, kids with high productivity and recognizing people’s effort. This is the case of Annmarie Willis of Shelby, Cleveland, who received the most prestigious awards the county bestows: The Girl Scout Gold Award. It used to be the Oscar, but Cleveland was not a safe place for Hollywood shenanigans.

Now, I know some might think this award is not a big deal. To you I say: “Go to therapy, it does great things!”...and I’d also say that Willis’s award-winning project grew out of the benefits of Pickleball.

Annmarie joined forces with the Pickleball Association of Cleveland to raise awareness of the game during Veterans Day. The tournament saw 40 players and even if that doesn’t sound like much, 40 people represents 95% of Shelby's population.

So, we thank Annmarie for her contribution to pickleball and proudly announced our new and very own prestigious award: The Golden Bottle Cap!

Which is definitely not just a bottle cap covered in golden paint given to random people at the street, stop saying that, mom!

Banning won't stop these Pickleball enthusiasts from playing

Pickleball players in Lake Oswego are struggling. Why?

• They live in a place called Lake Oswego

• The city council banned Pickleball from the park they used to play in

Yes, both problems could be solved by moving to another city, though that is not the ideal solution. And now they have to look for other places to practice.

Lake Oswego is not the first place to take action against Pickleball due to noise complaints, so we think it’s time to find a solution, folks. And besides abolishing the right to public opinion, I only see two ways:

• Providing noise canceling headphones to every inhabitant so they can’t hear the players.

• Providing noise canceling headphones to every player so they can’t hear the complaints.

Or maybe we should just do our best to come up with soundproof facilities. Yeah, that’s a better idea.

Thinking of converting your court? It's not that easy!

The rising popularity of Pickleball has us all thinking about the same thing: forgiving our ex for cheating on us with at least 8 cousins and wait! That’s not what I meant.

Many think about turning their neighborhood tennis courts into pickleball courts and we applaud that…though you might get in trouble. Legal trouble, even. And I don’t know about you, but I don’t wanna deal with lawyers telling me “I added expenses to the community” or “without courts, tennis players must gain access to my kitchen”.

You know, the typical stuff.

The Homeowner Association (HOA) reviews and approves these modifications, so it would be wise to talk to them before making any changes.

Still, I must inform you that the legal conflict has caused clandestine Pickleball organizations to form in basements and abandoned courts all over the country and even Florida. They are called Pickleball Clubs and their first rule is:

You do not talk about the Pickleball Club.