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View our E-commerece Policies Web Page Responibilites & Policies P O S T I N G S --- .pdf files ---   L I N K S Return to: Clubs & Leagues Visit the: Recreation Center   N E X T  S E A S O N Did you miss this Pickleball Season? Get on Next Season's E-mail List!	P I C K L E B A L L  P L A Y E R S  Winter 2025 - 48 registered so far.  • CHIRANJEEVI ARADHYA • Jayaprakash Anandhan • ABHILASH BALACHANDRA • Max Baer • David Bettmann • Robin Bettmann • Himansu Bhoi • Alex Bjerke • Yuva Raju Chamarthi • Torie Chase • Joe Crandall • Damon Derrick • Bala Dharmalingam • Connor Flack • Jayanth Gadde • Jason Heunisch • Lori Heunisch • Matthew Hubbell • Lily Humpal • Naveen Inturi • Gerald Dave Johnson • Raghuram Karavadi • Raghavendra Keshavamurthy • Heidi Kiser • Vinod Konakalla • Satya Kondiboyina • Amanda Langston • Kishore Kumar Maddini • Ramakrishna Maturi • Praveen Mettur Natarajan • Churchil Moondra • Ashly Murali • Kedar Myadam • Karthik Narayanan • Alma Olhava • Rick Olhava • Louise Parizek • Ricki Parizek • Craig Rabe • Parvath Reddy • Alex Salem • James Samraj • Logan Steffens • Tuong Tran • Prudhviraj Undavalli • Murty Vaddi • bharani akula • velumani kaliappan Identify your skill level  edited: January 8, 2025  Please use the below link and identify your skill level. chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://kennebunkme.myrec.com/documents/what_is_my_pickleball_rating.pdf Level 1.0 - Beginner • New—has minimal knowledge of the game. Level 1.5 - Beginner • Has taken at least one beginner lesson • Learning how to serve • Developing a forehand • Fails to return easy balls frequently • Learning to play the game, scoring and some basic rules Level 2.0 - Beginning • Has participated in novice and beginning skills practice • Moves around the court in a balanced and safe manner • Gets some serves “in” • Realizes aspects of score-keeping, rules and where to stand on the court during serve, receive of serve, and general play • Has some basic stroke skills, backhand, forehand, volley but has obvious weaknesses • Familiar with where to stand in doubles play Level 2.5 - Beginning/Novice • Able to serve “in” more regularly • Knows the two bounce rule and demonstrates it most times • Knows where to stand on the court during serve, serve receive and general play • Is mastering keeping score • Aware of the soft game and occasionally tries to dink • Working on form for ground strokes, accuracy is variable • Makes longer lasting slow paced rallies • Sometimes lobs with forehand with varying degrees of success • Beginning to approach the non-volley zone to hit volleys • Court coverage is weak but is improving • Knows fundamental rules and can keep score Level 3.0 – Novice • Working to keep the serve and serve receive deep • Moves quickly towards the non-volley zone when opportunity is there • Trying to make flatter returns (where appropriate) • More aware of their partner’s position on the court and moving more as a team • Developing more power in shots • Beginning to attempt lobs and dinks with little success and doesn’t fully understand when and why they should be used • Demonstrates improved skills with all the basic shot strokes and shot placement but lacks control when trying for direction, depth or power on shots Level 3.5 - Intermediate • Demonstrates a broad knowledge of the rules of the game • Gets high majority of serves “in” • Able to serve deep and return serve deep • Hits to the weak side of opponent often • Demonstrates more strategies of playing during games • Works better with partners in communicating, covering court, moving to net • With varying consistency executes: lobs, forehand/backhand ground strokes, overheads, net volleys, and sustained dinking • Starting to use drop shots in order to get to the net • Knows when to make some specific placed shots in the game • Working on mixing up soft shots with power shots to create an advantage • Hits fewer balls out of bounds or in the net • Dinks mostly in opponents' kitchen and dinks lower over the net • Able to sustain dinking in the game • Has a moderate number of unforced errors Level 4.0 - Intermediate/Advanced • Beginning to play more consistently in all phases of the game • Anticipates opponent’s shots resulting in good court position • Controls and places serves and return of serves to best advantage • Puts strategy into play in the game • Consistently varies shots to create a competitive advantage • Works and moves well with partner – easily switches court positions when required • Very comfortable playing at the non-volley zone. Works with partner to control the line, keeping opponents back and driving them off line • Can block volleys directed at them • Has good footwork and moves laterally, backward and forward with ease • Uses strategy in dinking to get a put-away shot • Consistently executes effective drop shots • Demonstrates 3rd shot strategies: drop shot, lobs and fast paced ground strokes • Hits a low number of unforced errors per game Level 4.5 - Advanced • Able to regularly convert a hard shot to a soft shot • Exhibits patience at a superior level • Shows noticeably increased skills, a higher level of strategy, quickness of hands and movement, judicious use of power, superior placement of shots, anticipation of play, sustained volleying skills, superior put-aways – all with consistency • Understands strategy and can adjust style of play and game plan according to opponent’s strength and weaknesses and court position • Beginning to master dink and drop shots • Makes very few unforced errors Level 5.0 - Advanced • Has mastered all skills and strategies • Dependable in stressful situations • Athletic ability, quickness, and agility separates these players	N E W S Registration by: Praveen Natarajan posted: Friday, January 17, 2025 2025 Winter Registration is CLOSED Choosing Partner by: Praveen Natarajan posted: Friday, January 10, 2025 1. Bring your doubles partner. (Make sure your partner is also registered.) 2. Add your partner name during signup. Make sure the partner will be registered for the league. 3. Incase if you need a partner, leave the partner name empty. We will assign you one based on the skill level selected in the signup sheet before the league starts. Pickleball Gear / Equipment by: Praveen Natarajan posted: Wednesday, January 8, 2025 Pickleballs: Pickleballs will be provided. Note: Pls return the balls to use it for league matches. This will help to keep the league fee down for the future leagues. Paddles: Bring your own paddle. PB nets: 6 portable nets shall be used. League Format by: Praveen Natarajan posted: Wednesday, January 8, 2025 League Format: Advanced Doubles. (Skill level - 5 or 4) Intermediate Doubles. (Skill level - 4 or 3) Novice Doubles. (Skill level - 1 to 2.5 ) Note: Please identify the skill level based on section "Identify your skill level" during sign up 1. Every team will get a league match (3 sets) per week. 2. All Six courts shall be used on Tuesdays. 3. Time: 5:30 pm to 5:40 pm: Set up court. 4. Time: 5:40 pm to 6:40 pm(Hard Stop): First Batch -> First set , Second set and Third set (In case, the result of first two sets are 1 -1 ) 5. Time: 6:40 pm to 6:45 : Second batch entry 6. Time: 6:45 pm to 7:45 pm(Hard Stop): Second Batch -> First set , Second set and Third set (In case, the result of first two sets are 1 -1 ) 7. Time: 7:45 pm to 8:00 pm: Clear the court. Teams: 1. In some cases, Advanced and Intermediate will be combined. 2. Same applicable for Intermediate. Format: 1. Each team will play against the other team in their respective pool(advanced/intermediate/Novice). Schedule will be sent out after the signup. 2. At the end of the league, based on the winning count of matches, table will be sorted out. 3. Knockout matches will be played based on the sorted table. 4. Knockout matches schedule will be sent out after the league matches. Scoring by: Praveen Natarajan posted: Wednesday, January 8, 2025 Points needed to win a Set: 11 points needed for a win. In case of dues, the team need to win by 2 additional points. To win a Match: 2 winning set required to win a match. Note: There will be a HARD STOP at 6:40 pm for the first batch and 7:45 pm for the second batch. At this point whoever is leading in the point is considered as WIN. League Winners by: Praveen Natarajan posted: Wednesday, January 8, 2025 2025 Winter League Winners Advanced Doubles. (Skill level - 5 or 4) Winners: Runner-up: Intermediate Doubles. (Skill level - 4 or 3) Winners: Runner-up: Novice Doubles. (Skill level - 1 to 2.5 ) Winners: Runner-up: Pickleball League Coordinator by: Jeff posted: Tuesday, January 7, 2025 For more information, Email the League Coordinator, Praveen Natarajan. Email: praveen.natarajan@collins.com or praveen220486@gmail.com or Call the Recreation Center at 295-2552 Pickleball Group Text Notifications by: Praveen Natarajan posted: Sunday, December 8, 2024 Join WhatsApp group to get latest updates: https://chat.whatsapp.com/DneDTfsfXzTFLlkLHyMrIh DUPR by: Praveen Natarajan posted: Monday, January 8, 2024 DUPR ratings will not be used in this current league. This may be used in future leagues. Rules  edited: January 9, 2025  Rules: 1) USAPA rules are in affect unless otherwise mentioned. chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://usapickleball.org/docs/2025-USA-Pickleball-Rulebook.pdf 2)If 2 players from a team are not present during the scheduled match start time, the game will be forfeited. There will be a 10 min grace period, following the scheduled start time. No subs allowed. 3) Each player/team must register within their appropriate skill rating. Court Rules: 1) Players are expected to set up and clear the nets. 2) Players are expected to leave the court promptly at the conclusion of their league game. If there are no players waiting and no other games scheduled for that court players may stay on the court. 3) Courts will be reserved for each league game. The courts will not be reserved beyond the scheduled game. All games will be scheduled for 1 hour and must stop at end of time. Team leading will win match if it is in the tiebreaker match. 4) Send the results to league coordinator.

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