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Pickleball, the official sport of the Seattle pandemic™ and, basically, slow tennis, is having its moment. 3,300 people took time to fill out the city’s pickleball survey earlier this year.
Now the city’s parks and rec folks want more input from pickleball — and tennis — players as they share the results of three years of study and community feedback and roll out a new plan for “the future of pickleball in Seattle’s parks.”
Seattle Parks and Recreation (SPR) is seeking input from tennis and pickleball players on how we can best support the growth of pickleball. Please join us online on Wednesday, March 30, 2022 at 4:30 p.m. To register visit https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAsf-2rrTwqE9bpE6f9JbwvhTUl7WUYt3RW.
This online event is part of the 2021-2022 Pickleball Study funded by the Seattle Park District. The project team will use the input from our community survey, the project advisory committee, and community meetings to recommend revisions to our dual-striping practices, evaluate standards for dual-striping, and draft a list of potential sites for dedicated pickleball. The team looks forward to presenting pickleball study work, input to date, and next steps at this meeting.
The $50,000 effort will set the process by which new pickleball court locations are identified and how they are marked for play. “Future dedicated pickleball courts” would still need to be funded.
On Capitol Hill, Miller Community Center’s court space is one of the most consistently busy hot spots for Seattle pickleballers.
The pickleball effort might seem outsized but echoes a process undertaken a decade ago as Seattle Parks formalized the use of its courts for dodgeball and bike polo.
Meanwhile, pickleball is soon to be the official state sport of Washington.
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