HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. (Nov. 30, 2022) — On the current Skilled Pickleball Registry (PPR) Convention held in Rancho Mirage, Calif., PPR Chairman Hemel Cosme and PPR President & CEO Dan Santorum offered the group’s annual awards. “The game of pickleball continues to see wonderful progress on this nation and around the globe,” Cosme says. “We’re thrilled that our PPR members and member organizations proceed to contribute to the well being and vitality of this unbelievable sport.”
Chairman’s & President’s Award – Collin Johns
Not too long ago chosen to serve on the PPR Board of Administrators, Collin Johns has been actively concerned within the group since 2019, when he grew to become a PPR Clinician. A top-ranked skilled pickleball participant, he often contributes as a columnist to the PPR publication Across the Put up, in addition to writing a column for Pickleball Journal. “Collin is such a formidable, but humble, skilled participant and coach educator,” says PPR President and CEO Dan Santorum. “The morning after profitable the Open Doubles gold medal at USAP Nationals in November together with his brother Ben, Collin got here to the PPR awards breakfast to obtain his award, was the leadoff speaker following the occasion, assisted Jarrett Chirico together with his on-court presentation, and posed for pictures with a number of PPR members afterward. Merely wonderful!” A PPR-sponsored participant whose paddle sponsor is Electrum, Johns, who lives in Austin, TX, is the founder and co-owner of Pickleball 360 (pickleball360.com), a superb on-line tutorial web site. Choose Pickleball 360 movies are a part of a brand new PPR member profit.
PPR Professional of the Yr – Jeff Rausch
Jeff Rausch of Austin, TX, is one in every of a choose few “4-Star” Professionals, incomes certifications in Pickleball (PPR), Tennis (PTR), Platform Tennis (PPTR), and Padel (PCR). He’s the Head Pickleball Professional and Tennis Professional at Misplaced Creek Nation Membership in Austin, Texas, an Invited Membership. “There are lower than 20 coaches on the planet who’ve achieved the celebrated feat of being a 4-Star licensed member,” says PPR Vice-Chairman Jarrett Chirico , a fellow 4-Star professional. “Jeff is a educated and devoted PPR Clinician, having traveled all through the nation to conduct greater than 40 PPR Stage 1 workshops with over 370 individuals in 2022.” Rausch is a Senior Contributor to SportsEdTV.com, contributing creator to each the PPR column in Pickleball Journal and PPR’s Across the Put up journal and a member of Group Head Pickleball.
PPR Clinician of the Yr – Vicki Foster
Vicki Foster of Scottsdale, AZ, who has been a PPR Clinician for the final three years, performed 20 PPR Stage 1 certification workshops in 2022. She’s been instructing and competing in pickleball since 2007 when her household constructed a courtroom of their yard. A sponsored participant on Group Gamma, Foster has received a number of U.S. and Canadian nationwide championships on the 5.0 degree. “After each workshop that Vicki runs, we obtain a number of complimentary emails from workshop individuals praising her for her clinician expertise,” says the PPR’s Julie Jilly, who manages the intensive and continuously rising PPR Workshop certification program. “She is thorough and has a optimistic perspective along with her college students—and continues to assist make this sport thrive.”
PPR Non-public Facility of the Yr – Royal Oaks Nation Membership
The very first thing you see if you drive into the Royal Oaks Nation Membership in Dallas, TX, is the brand new pickleball facility, which has turn into a focus for the membership. The power has six new, devoted pickleball courts, every with LED lighting surrounded by WiFi, audio system, and live-stream cameras. If extra pickleball courts are wanted, the membership can at all times put the tennis courts into use. Presiding over this pickleball hotbed are the membership’s Common Supervisor, Todd Harbour, and the Director of Racquets, Jarrett Chirico, who each performed a key function in making the brand new pickleball facility a actuality. On account of the brand new pickleball courts, Racquets at ROCC has doubled in progress to turn into one of many largest applications within the U.S. ROCC hosted six PPR workshops in 2022 and has plans to host eight extra in 2023. PPR Board member Collin Johns, one-half of the world’s No. 1 doubles workforce, raves about enjoying at Royal Oaks. “The power is superior,” Johns says. “Jarrett is the consummate promoter of each pickleball and tennis.” Not too long ago, ROCC hosted a “One Evening Solely, With the World’s Finest” occasion, which attracted 400 members and greater than 10,000 who considered the occasion on-line via the PPA Tour stay stream. Created by Chirico, the occasion featured the world’s No. 1 golfer, Scottie Scheffler, who performed with the world’s No. 1 pickleball participant, Ben Johns. It was the primary time the world’s prime PGA golfer and prime PPA pickleball participant had ever been on the identical courtroom.
PPR Business Facility of the Yr – Pickleballerz
In October 2020, Beverly and Greg Raelson opened the wonderful 20,000-square-foot Pickleballerz in Chantilly, VA—the primary devoted indoor pickleball facility within the Mid-Atlantic area. The venue has hosted greater than a dozen PPR Certification Workshops during the last two years, permitting greater than 100 coaches to entry pickleball coaching and certification, whatever the climate. “The power has six regulation pickleball courts, a separate dinking apply courtroom, a professional store, and a restaurant with meals and alcoholic and non-alcoholic refreshments,” says Sonny Tannan, PPR Clinician who has performed a number of PPR certification workshops at Pickleballerz. “It’s the go-to spot within the Northern Virginia/Washington DC space for newcomers studying to play pickleball. Their PPR-certified coaches have taught hundreds of the realm’s latest pickleball gamers in our Pickleball 101, 201, and 301 collection clinics.”
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PPR (Skilled Pickleball Registry) was based in 2018 to coach, certify and serve pickleball coaches and is the official schooling and certification associate of USA Pickleball, the governing physique of the game in the USA. PPR combines the sources and academic experience of our sister corporations, Skilled Tennis Registry (PTR), Skilled Platform Tennis Registry (PPTR), and the Padel Coaches Registry (PCR), to develop the best normal of pickleball instructional supplies. Our members are on the coronary heart of all the things we do. For extra data, go to pprpickleball.org, name 843-842-9777, or e-mail Julie Jilly at Julie@pprpickleball.org.
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