tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76507811656333940052024-02-02T11:07:16.856-07:00IT IS ALL ABOUT Pickleball IT IS ALL ABOUT PICKLEBALL
Rosemary Reesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02516551311929929812noreply@blogger.comBlogger1099125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7650781165633394005.post-26515211737783975712020-03-09T22:22:00.003-07:002020-03-10T18:26:03.089-07:00Final Post - Farewell My Friends<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<strong style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: -webkit-center;">Many players today can not imagine a time when the entire club knew "<i>everyone</i>" and all gathered every Wednesday for " <i>Happy Hour". </i></strong><strong style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: -webkit-center;">The enthusiasm and willingness to volunteer were contagious, it caused our club and its reputation to grow faster than we could have imagined. We now have 32 courts, and our membership is 1,200+</strong><br />
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<strong style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: -webkit-center;">The time had come when I was asked by the Club President, Tom Gearhart, to get us on the internet. With no experience, I started this blog. </strong><strong style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: -webkit-center;">It was centered around our club, upcoming events, highlighted our club members, published lists of our club medal winners, club documents, and sadly memorials of dear friends we have lost.</strong><br />
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<strong style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: -webkit-center;">Over the years, I wore many different hats. I served on our board for several years, served as the club historian, the co-tournament director for 3 years (my husband was the real director, he also started our resident tournament), I was in the background doing registrations, at the time on Excel, calling club presidents for ratings on their players, scheduling and negotiating with Palm Creek, promoting, and had our tournament sanctioned for the first time, etc.</strong><br />
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<strong style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: -webkit-center;">I was honored by the club when they requested, me to be one of the first four players on the new courts for the ribbon cutting. (The real pressure was getting my serve in with an audience) and when given the volunteer of the year award.</strong><br />
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<strong style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: -webkit-center;">I followed Nancy Brentano as our club Ambassador for the USAPA. Throughout the years, I moved up the ranks of USAPA to the National Level as Assistant Director of Ambassadors and most enjoyed fundraising for St. Judes Children's Research Hospital ( it has been selected as the National Charity for Pickleball). I was honored to receive the Pioneer Award for the National Growth of Pickleball from this organization.</strong><br />
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<strong style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: -webkit-center;">Last year our club president asked me to discontinue the blog as we had new things on the horizon. I changed it to "IT IS ALL ABOUT PICKLEBALL"</strong><br />
<strong style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: -webkit-center;">Honestly, I lost my enthusiasm. I wanted to highlight to you, our club members not the sport. I have posted rarely and yet still have approximately 1,000 page views per month. (Our busiest month was February 2017, 9,325 page views)</strong><br />
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<strong style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: -webkit-center;">As of today, this blog has had 343,691 page views, thank you for your support and allowing me to have a good time doing this.</strong><br />
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<strong style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: -webkit-center;">As many of you know I have been diagnosed with stage four cancer, it is not curable. This season I had hoped to meet with many dear friends. My season was cut short after spending 11 days in the hospital with kidney failure. I am thankful for those of you who visited me and those of you who I was able to talk to at the courts. I am sorry that I missed seeing those of you I hoped to spend some time. I would always look forward to hearing from you:</strong><strong style="background-color: white; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: -webkit-center;"><span style="color: blue;"> <a href="mailto:RosemaryReese@aol.com">RosemaryReese@aol.com</a></span></strong><br />
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<strong style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: -webkit-center;">With every ending, there is a beginning. John Winston has done an incredible job with creating a new website for our club, it does more than a blog could hope to do. John has been newly elected to our board and also has taken over as our club historian. I hope you give him your support, as he represents one of the many club members over the last 17 years that has made our club the best!</strong><br />
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Thanks for the Memories<br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Rosemary Reese</i></span>Rosemary Reesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02516551311929929812noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7650781165633394005.post-34567102555289096362019-12-31T06:45:00.003-07:002019-12-31T06:45:35.939-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Rosemary Reesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02516551311929929812noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7650781165633394005.post-71272088760566898952019-12-21T22:09:00.002-07:002019-12-21T22:09:57.606-07:0012 Days of Pickleball Christmas<br />
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Keith, from Gig Harbor, WA, just whipped up this fun poem for you to enjoy:</div>
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12 Days of Pickleball Christmas</div>
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On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me:<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />A pickleball in a pear tree.</div>
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On the second day of Christmas, my true love gave to me:<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />Two overheads—and a pickleball in a pear tree.</div>
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On the third day of Christmas, my true love gave to me:<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />Three bench hens, two overheads—and a pickleball in a pear tree.</div>
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On the fourth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me:<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />Four calling nerds, three bench hens, two overheads—and a pickleball in a pear tree.</div>
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On the fifth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me:<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />Five golden blings!<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />Four calling nerds, three bench hens, two overheads—and a pickleball in a pear tree.</div>
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<img alt="Keith James - Author of 12 Days of Pickleball" class="size-full wp-image-27991" height="300" src="https://allpickleball.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/keithjames-247x300.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="247" /><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />On the sixth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me:<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />Six geezers playing—five golden blings—<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />Four calling nerds, three bench hens, two overheads—and a pickleball in a pear tree.</div>
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On the seventh day of Christmas, my true love gave to me:<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />Seven studs a swinging, six geezers playing—five golden blings—four calling nerds, three bench hens, two overheads—and a pickleball in a pear tree.</div>
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On the eighth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me:<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />Eight dames a dropping, seven studs a swinging: six geezers playing—five golden blings—four calling nerds, three bench hens, two overheads—and a pickleball in a pear tree.</div>
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On the ninth day of Christmas, my true gave to me:<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />Nine ladies looping, eight dames a dropping, seven studs a swinging: six geezers playing—five golden blings—four calling nerds, three bench hens, two overheads—and a pickleball in a pear tree.On the tenth day of Christmas, my true gave to me:Ten lords a lunging, nine ladies looping, eight dames a dropping, seven studs a swinging: six geezers playing—five golden blings—four calling nerds, three bench hens, two overheads—and a pickleball in a pear tree.</div>
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On the eleventh day of Christmas, my true love gave to me:Eleven picklers paddling, ten lords a lunging, nine ladies looping, eight dames a dropping, seven studs a swinging: six geezers playing—five golden blings—four calling nerds, three bench hens, two overheads—and a pickleball in a pear tree.</div>
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On the twelfth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me:<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />Twelve dinkers dinking, eleven picklers paddling, ten lords a lunging, nine ladies looping, eight dames a dropping, seven studs a swinging: six geezers playing—five golden blings—four calling nerds, three bench hens, two overheads—and a pickleball in a pear tree!</div>
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Rosemary Reesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02516551311929929812noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7650781165633394005.post-37251822369499136722019-12-07T18:31:00.004-07:002019-12-07T18:31:53.545-07:00PB Founder<br />
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Rosemary Reesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02516551311929929812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7650781165633394005.post-65023990296560108162019-11-20T10:06:00.002-07:002019-11-20T10:06:59.294-07:00Barney McCallum<h1 class="entry-title fusion-post-title" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: ""; line-height: 27px; margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;">
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: ""; font-size: 28px;">Barney McCallum – A Wonderful Life</span></div>
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The pickleball world has lost its last living founder, inventor and a pioneer of this great sport. Barney McCallum passed away at his home in Seattle, WA on Monday, November 18, 2019. He was 93 years old.</div>
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I will miss his sharp wit and humor, our in-depth conversations, his amazing storytelling, and his true friendship and positive outlook on all things. Barney had an amazing memory, often recalling and sharing his life experiences as he interweaved them into the conversation. I’m going to miss those chats!</div>
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Barney lived an interesting, full life that held many chapters. One chapter of his life began in 1965 when Barney was one of the three founders and creators of the sport of pickleball. At that time, Barney was 39 years old, married with four kids, and was busy running one of the businesses he started in Seattle, the McCallum Envelope Company.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Fast-forward to Barney’s last pickleball chapter, Summer 2013 – November 18, 2019:</span></div>
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In 2013, Barney had long sold Pickle-Ball® Inc. to his son and had not been to a pickleball event/tournament in decades. At Jennifer Lucore’s urging, to which Barney exclaimed, “Let’s check out what pickleball is up to!”, he attended the popular SeaTac indoor tournament held in Washington state.</div>
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Later that year, Barney attended his first USAPA Nationals in Buckeye, AZ. Barney sat courtside for several matches and was a special guest speaker at the USAPA Ambassador Dinner. Barney said his visit to Nationals was “overpowering” and “just a thrill.”</div>
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For the next several years, Barney would get constant updates with the happenings of pickleball from Jennifer Lucore, Alex Hamner, and his many pickleball friends and family via phone calls, mail, and personal visits. Jennifer and Alex visited Barney periodically and stayed with him in Bainbridge Island every July (usually right after the Canadian Nationals) for six years in a row… priceless!</div>
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In 2018, Barney returned with family to Nationals when it was held for the first time at Indian Wells Tennis Garden in the California desert. He had been there many times for big tennis tournaments, but to enter such a prestigious venue that had a week full of only pickleball – he could not believe it. He was impressed.</div>
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Throughout 2019, the monthly talks about pickleball and the things that are happening continued. His hope was to attend Nationals again but decided it was best to stay closer to home. In September he celebrated his 93<sup style="box-sizing: border-box;">rd</sup> birthday, and hundreds of pickleball players from around the world sent him birthday wishes. Barney shared that he spent many hours reading all the notes he received and how much he appreciated receiving them. He was overjoyed with the outpouring of love and the various uplifting and life-changing pickleball stories people shared with him.</div>
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2013. Left: Jennifer hanging out with Barney. He is holding her paddle which highlights Bainbridge Island (Legacy paddle) and she is holding his original wood paddle. Right: Barney with USAPA’s Justin Maloof and David Jordan.</div>
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2013 Nationals in Buckeye, AZ, Barney giving advice to Jennifer and Alex.</div>
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2018 Nationals at Indian Wells Tennis Garden, CA, Barney giving advice to Jennifer and Alex.</div>
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2018 Nationals on center court, Barney truly enjoying the action and celebration.</div>
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An early chapter of Barney’s life was shared in this <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Around the Post</em> column printed in the Sept/Oct 2019 issue<em style="box-sizing: border-box;"> Pickleball Magazine</em>:</div>
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It was 1944, and like many boys his age, Barney McCallum joined the U.S. Navy in order to serve his country during World War II. Told that he needed to finish high school first, Barney reported to Recruit Training just two days after graduating at the age of 17.</div>
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Assigned to a ship for the next two years as a Deck Seaman (deck seamen are charged with managing the ship while going into and out of port, as well as maintaining the ship’s appearance and keeping the deck secure), Barney was recognized as being a very strong guy who was not afraid of heights. So he was tasked with climbing the 70-foot-high mast to pull the boom up and secure it whenever the ship would leave port. This could be particularly dangerous when the ship was already in motion. Barney remembers one of the most challenging climbs leaving port in San Francisco as the ship went under the Golden Gate Bridge in a storm – it was just him and the elements 70 feet in the air.</div>
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Most of Barney’s Naval service was spent traversing the Pacific Ocean. His last wartime travel turned out to be during the last battle in Okinawa when his ship picked up 1,000 Japanese POWs to take to the United States. By the time the ship had reached Hawaii, the war had ended. Barney and his shipmates then went back and forth between Japan and the U.S., bringing soldiers home.</div>
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The final voyage for Barney was through the Panama Canal (during a hurricane!) and back to Norfolk, VA, where the ship was decommissioned.</div>
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Barney can count three separate times during his short Naval career where he almost lost his life. Honored to have served, Barney wonders if he should have stayed in the Navy rather than return to Washington state to attend college. We’ll never know how pickleball history may have been altered if Barney, the last living creator of our great sport, and founder of Pickle-Ball Inc., had taken a different course in life.</div>
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Thank you, Barney McCallum, for both your service to the country as well as for helping to create pickleball!</div>
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Rosemary Reesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02516551311929929812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7650781165633394005.post-38938424932155663982019-11-10T22:05:00.001-07:002019-11-11T20:40:17.610-07:00The Growth of Nationals<b>2009</b> -2014 Buckeye, AZ<br />
The first USAPA Nationals had just <u>under 400 </u>participants from 26 states and several Canadian provinces. Eight dedicated pickleball courts were used with an additional 12 courts set up on adjacent tennis courts using taped lines and hand-built, free-standing nets.<br />
<b>2015 -17</b> Casa Grande AZ<br />
Palm Creek and Robson Ranch co-hosted this event in 2015, this is the first time champion courts were available.<br />
<b>2016</b> - Palm Creek, AZ<br />
With 32 courts this was the first time players were capped at 860.<br />
<b>2017</b> - Palm Creek, AZ<br />
To accommodate more players in 2017, an additional twelve courts were added from the nearby Robson Ranch complex for a total of 44 courts. Despite the additional courts, registration had to be quickly capped as registrations surged past<u> 1,300 players</u> within the first hour. 2017 also marked the first time the National Championships aired to a national audience as 2 hours of the event were aired on the CBS Sports Network.<br />
<b>2018</b> - Indian Wells Tennis Garden, CA<br />
This venue featured 45 courts and the world’s largest pickleball championship court. The event also set a new player registration record with <u>over 2,200 registered players </u>who competed in a total of 4,300 matches. This tournament also provided the highest cash purse ($75,000) in the history of the sport! As for broadcast coverage, over 17 hours of the event were live-streamed to a nation-wide audience on ESPN3 and a special, 1-hour highlight program aired nationally on ESPNEWS.<br />
<b>2019</b> - Indian Wells Tennis Garden, CA<br />
This tournament just ended and many details are sure to follow in the USAPA newsletter and the Pickleball Magazine<br />
The venue grew to 50 courts and <u>2,333 registered players </u>and a cash purse of $80,000 making this the largest pickleball ever!<br />
Matches were easy to view on Facebook if you missed some of these events check out: <a href="https://usapickleballnationalchampionships.com/live/"><b>https://usapickleballnationalchampionships.com/live/</b></a><br />
A super special moment for the first time a Junior won a Gold medal in a Pro Division! Womens Pro Doubles - Junior Anna Leigh Waters ( 12 years old) playing with Leigh Waters won the Gold!<br />
<b>2020</b> - Registration information available on <a href="http://usapa.org/"><b>usapa.org</b></a><br />
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Rosemary Reesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02516551311929929812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7650781165633394005.post-29657962194349526762019-09-27T23:45:00.000-07:002019-09-27T23:45:33.953-07:00Steve Hansen<span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Steven Hansen</span><br />
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<span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; display: inline; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Steve loved playing pickleball. He and his wife Cathy as club members were also always ready to volunteer.</span><br />
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<span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; display: inline; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Steve will be missed by all those who played with him and by all of those who he has helped. During his Winter stays at Palm Creek he participated in a lot of events the community offered. </span><br />
<span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; display: inline; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">With Cathy, he enjoyed fishing and woodworking. He also was enjoying learning to play the guitar.</span><br />
<span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; display: inline; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Steve will be dearly missed by his wife Cathy, his sons, grandchildren, and great-grandchild, his mother and sisters. He will also be missed by his Palm Creek pickleball family.</span><br />
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There is no end in sight as to how much how sport will continue to grow!<br />
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East Naples Community Park is set to receive $23.4 million in upgrades, including more pickleball courts, a welcome center and a 3,500-seat championship stadium.</div>
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The park, which has become a pickleball mecca in recent years, has hosted the U.S. Open Pickleball Championships since 2016 and its existing 54 courts are frequented by daily players. </div>
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The project’s first phase, which will cost approximately $1.8 million, will upgrade electrical, water and wireless access and add 10 pickleball courts by April 2020, according to a master plan county commissioners approved this week.</div>
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Phase 1 of the East Naples Community Park master plan. <span class="credit" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: 400;">(Photo: Collier County Parks and Recreation Department)</span></div>
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The initial upgrades will help event organizers meet the needs of the U.S. Open Pickleball Championship, said Chris Evon, a co-founder of Spirit Promotions LLC, the company that runs the U.S. Open.</div>
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Access to improved electricity and wireless Internet will help the event run more efficiently while the extra courts will accommodate demands for more space, Evon said.</div>
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“The demand not only for the U.S. Open but for daily play is still increasing so we asked for more courts. The U.S. Open, we pull in 2,100 people, but we turn away about 1,000 people. So, we know that more people want to come to the U.S. Open, we just don’t have the space,” she said.</div>
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The second phase of upgrades will include a 3,500-seat Championship Pickleball Stadium, more than 1,000 additional parking spots, a community center and a new welcome center. </div>
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The master plan for East Naples Community Park. While there is no timeline to complete all of the upgrades included in the master plan, phase 1 and phase 2 improvements will be completed in 2021. <span class="credit" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: 400;">(Photo: Collier County Parks and Recreation Board)</span></div>
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The welcome center, which is set to be completed in 2021, will bring much-needed additional bathrooms to the park, said Barry Williams, the county's parks and recreation director.</div>
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"The big thing is we're going to start the design of a welcome center that would include adequate bathrooms for this facility. It was designed in the '80s with a different use and now this has become kind of an event center," he said.</div>
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In the past four years, the county has invested more than $3 million in East Naples Community Park, converting areas designed for skateboarding and tennis into pickleball courts, installing a shade structure and making other improvements. </div>
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