Monday, June 9, 2025 (Court Day #812)

Today is our monthly board meeting of the Santa Cruz Pickleball Club. I took the morning off from work to get in some play before the meeting.

As I have the last few weeks, I’m continuing to wear my reinforced elastic knee brace on my right leg. My knee isn’t bothering me too much, although it is kind of nagging and will cause the mild pain sometimes

It was 57° and overcast when I left my house about 9 a.m. As I drove to Brommer Park, I couldn’t help but wonder if I was going to get any good games. I was at Brommer for club play on Memorial Day and, while pickleball is always fun, it’s kind of debatable if it was worth the trouble.

Brommer

I was walking into the courts at 9:17 a.m.

Surprisingly, Dave Ryan was back again this morning. I wasn’t expecting to see him at club play. Dave Ryan teamed up with a woman, a regular, named Maylene against Mo and me. We won 11-6.  Maylene is not a bad player—she’s one of those people whose skill belies their older appearance—but she’s not quite the same caliber as the rest of us. The loss was not on Dave. He was playing very well.

I had a few game with and against Mo. Mo is always fun to get on a court with.

Nariel—whom I’m starting to get to know recently—and Alan Cable played against Mike sullivan and me. We were up 4-0. They came back, mostly on my errors, to go ahead 10-8. But Mike and I scored the next four points to win 12-10.

Nariel and I played against Sean McElhaney and Trevor Fish.  They went up, but we came back and won 13-11. There were some great rallies in that one. We had some great defense as well.

Trevor and I took on Mo and Nariel. We won 11-5.

Meeting Time

By then it was almost 12:15 p.m. and time for the board meeting. I grabbed my backpack and headed over to the picnic area where we held our meeting until 1:43 p.m.

More Play

Once the meeting ended, four of us decided to play a game. That was Mark Dettle and myself against Jackie and Mike sullivan. We played 4-5 games, with Mark and I losing every one of them. Most of the games were somewhat close but one or two were lopsided.

We decide to make a rotation of players and I teamed up with Jackie against Mark and Mike. They took the first few points on errors by Jackie but she and I came back and took that game 11–8. Mark finished his afternoon with no wins.

By then, it was 3:26 p.m. and time for us all to get on with our days.

Somewhere in the midst of playing today, I tweaked the back of my right wrist. The last time I did that, it nagged me for a while. Hopefully, it’ll be a fleeting injury.

Times Square Famous

About a week and a half ago, women’s #1 player, Anna Leigh Waters was featured on a billboard in Times Square! That’s pretty fun. I do have to wonder who paid for it. The PPA? Paddletek? Someone else?

Number of days on a court: 812
Number of total hours: 3,181.5
Number of paid coaching hours: 141.5

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