Costco Flyer - 05/01-05/31/2023 (Page 33)

pickleball power the funny-named sport is transforming first-time players into full-time fanatics by andrea downing peck slk latitude costco connection find pickleball sets and other athletic equipment in most costco warehouses and at costco.ca hen costco member denise jagoda first swapped her tennis racket for a pickleball ered why nearly 5.8 million people in the united states and canada have made pickleball one of the world's fastest-growing sports pickleball is played on a court roughly one-fourth the size of a tennis pickleballers use a solid-surface paddle playe 11 points and must be won by two points; points are won only while serving professional tyson mcguffin of coeur and tennis had a baby and that baby was there was a lot of camaraderie." the small court creates fast-paced that made jagoda an enthusiastic so much joy playing something," the "i love this game." pickleball was cobbled together in 1965 by three dads on a backyard badminton court on bainbridge island game has rocketed from obscurity to rock-star status usa pickleball chief marketing officer chuck menke says the pandemic served as a "hyper accelerator" for the sport by providing a social and recre- ational outlet for quarantine-fatigued people of all ages who could reconnect at safe distances on a pickleball court mcguffin credits pickleball's explod- ing popularity to the fact that new can step onto a court and quickly have