Holiday Gala Raises $1,270 for EChO Food Bank
Jeri Herskovits, EPC Treasurer, and Jerry Beth Owen, EPC board member, presented $1,270 to Meaghan Moore, EChO Food Bank Marketing & Events Manager following the EPC Holiday Gala at The Wild Game.
Our year-end fundraiser caps off a year of noteworthy contributions. Last Spring, pickleball players donated $1,400 in new Paddletek paddles to a rec center in Germany introducing Ukrainian refugees to the sport. In the summer we raised $1,000 along with EFR and EPRD to install an AED at Marshdale Courts. A dozen players took CPR training and are qualified to step in in an emergency.
We are grateful for our generous, caring pickleball players who give so much and help us pursue our purpose of promoting and advocating for pickleball in Evergreen, and indeed, around the world.
For more photos of the Holiday Gala visit our homepage.
Be Sure to Attend EPC’s Annual General Membership Meeting, Wednesday, Dec. 7 at Wulf Rec Center
This has been an exceptional year for pickleball in Evergreen and the Evergreen Pickleball Club. Estimates of the number of players exploded to 800 as new players filled Sarah German’s EPRD beginner classes, Tom & Sue Karas’s program at Hiwan, new courts at Mt. Vernon and Genesee HOA’s courts.
To get a recap of the year and EPC’s accomplishments, plus a look forward to what 2023 has in store, catch the year-end presentation at our Annual General Membership Meeting, Wednesday, Dec. 7, 10-11 am in the Aspen Room at Wulf.
Plus, you’ll vote for candidates for EPC Board of Directors. Four candidates - Jeri Herskovits, John Russell, Cherie Peterson and James Mosby - are running for three open seats. Per EPC bylaws you have to be present to vote and you have to. be an EPC member.
Giving Thanks to Our Snow Angels
Many of us are taking advantage of these relatively warm, blue sky days to play at Marshdale courtesy of our Snow Angles and Captain Monte Poague. John Lang and his entourage sent in their thank-you “to Monte and crew for clearing the courts” last week.
John Lang, Karen, Debbie Lang, Mary & Tim McAleer, Ray & Mom, and Patty Alberga
Players are showing up at 10 am and again at 1 pm on nice days to play. Of course, you can get your crew together to join the Snow Angels and get first dibs on cleared, dry courts. Remember, don’t attempt to clear courts on your own. It’s a special skill to not damage the courts while removing snow.
On Monday, Nov. 28, It’s a shorts kinda day: John Hach and “Good” Larry Anderson
“Captain” Monte Poague and Claire Roberts as Peter Pan. Arrrggh!
Step Count or Heart Rate? Who Cares? It’s Just Fun
Are there health benefits to playing pickleball? If you play 3+ times a week, you know you feel better. But The Dink newsletter reports that may not be the case.
“While very few question the social benefits of pickleball meetups, scientists are determined to measure players’ actual physical exertion during games. Their answer: it’s not as much as you think,” The Dink posted.
“An article in the Washington Post breaks down a recent study that measured the heart rates and step counts of players aged 29-73.
“The study found that you’d need to play as much as 4.5 hours of pickleball per week to meet the recommended federal guidelines for moderate exercise. Eighty percent of singles exercise was deemed ‘moderate intensity’ by the study, while the rest was only ‘light intensity.’
“The study predominantly revolves around step-count as the determining factor for level of exertion. But then they drop this little line: But players’ heart rate readings indicated both singles and doubles competition might be providing more of a workout than the step counts showed.
“Pickleball is a HIIT (high intensity interval training) workout. The abrupt starting and stopping causes heart rate to fluctuate and places significant amounts of metabolic stress on muscle tissue. Attempting to account for that by measuring steps simply doesn't paint the whole picture. But, we digress.
“On another note, 4.5 hours is nothin!”
That was our thought exactly. The majority of our players play 3+ times a week. At two hours per session that’s 6 hours a week. It’s easy to find health benefits to pickleball. But it’s the mental and social engagement along with the sheer fun that keeps us playing.
It’s the Holderness Family Again with a Pickleball Spoof of “Wrecking Ball”