Jessie Irving, Irina Tereschenko and me :)
As Covid and quarantine continued in 2020, I found myself with more free time due to lack of PTO meetings, church meetings, any social life (Ha!), kids activities being cancelled, etc. But Pickleball was still available! So when the courts came back open, I started getting really into it and started drilling and playing a lot more often and what do you know, I started to get better! :)
My mixed doubles partner, Brad, and I continued to practice and Stephen had the great idea of us playing in our first tournament! And it was a biggie! The Atlanta Georgia Open and by the way, it was a PPA event! Which means all of the pro pickleball players play in the same tournament! (Not at my 3.5 level of course, at the pro level).
So off we went to Atlanta hoping we would not embarrass ourselves.
The PPA events are so fun though because in between our own matches, we could interact and watch the pros. All of whom, are entirely gracious and good sports about talking with us! We had so much fun watching hours upon hour upon hours of pickleball.
Me and Catherine Parenteau
Me and Simmone Jardim, number one pickleball player in the world!
Lucy Kovalova and me :)
And what do you know???
We went undefeated and won the gold medal!!
It was an amazing weekend!
How could we not win after Addison made this sweet sign for us?
Riley Newman, me and Tyson Mcguffin :)
Me and Jeff Warnick, he's 6'7" and so fun to watch on the courts!
