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Aloha PCPA picklers!
I just want to review a little of what PCPA did this year- 2023. There are a few weeks left as we finish up the 2024 PCPA budget and make plans for the new year. Our board has a great depth of experience and is pulling together a growing club. As membership director I would like to give credit and thanks to our members.
We had several socials this year that included auctions, taco bars, round robins lots of fun. Our year end social always is to celebrate our membership, in November had 80+ members eating yummy food and trying out their skills. We set up at each court at PTC a skill challenge. Picklers checked their Speed, third shot drops, aim/accuracy and ping pong on the big court. It was a great time, thank you all for making it fun.
It takes a crew to do events, thanks to everyone this year who has donated, cooked, arranged venues, set up items for silent auction(the special set of ladies who do this so well) and our talented picklers who paint, tie flies, bake, provide music and especially our contributors for our auctions.
PCPA is rich with volunteers but there are more needed! We can always use fresh ideas for socials and events and helpful hands.
Let's ring in 2024 with celebrations to health, friendship, pickleball and our club that has grown to nearly 200.
respectfully,
Kay Tamada
USAPA ambassador
PCPA membership director
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SIGNIFICANT RULE CHANGES FOR 2024
Correcting Server, Receiver and Player Position Errors (4.B.9) Faults for incorrect server, incorrect receiver and player position errors are eliminated. The referee will now correct any such player errors before calling the score. Rule 4.B.9 is the primary rule text. Several other rules have been modified or deleted to correlate with this change.
Draping Net (2.C.6/11.L.5.b)
Rule 2.C.6 called for a replay when a ball goes over the net and hits a net that is draped on the ground (except on a serve) but only if the referee determined that the ball was affected by the draped net. This rule, and Rule 11.L.5.b for temporary nets, now call for a replay without qualification. A determination that the ball was affected by the draped net is now not required in officiated or non-officiated play.
Catch or Carry Ball on the Paddle (7.L)
Rule 7.L now makes catching or carrying a ball on the paddle a fault without having to determine that the catch or carry was deliberately done. Conceding a Rally (13.E.4/13.E.5)
Rule 13.E.5 calls for a replay when a player overrules to their detriment a line judge’s
‘out’ call as ‘in.’ The player or team may now choose to concede the rally to their opponent if they determine they would have been unable to return the ‘in’ ball. Similarly, Rule 13.E.4 calls for a replay when the referee overturns a line judge’s out call as in. The player or team who benefitted from the referee’s ruling may now choose to concede the rally to their opponent if they determine they would have been unable to return the ‘in’ ball. Medical Time-Outs (10.B.2.c)
A player is now allowed to use available standard time-outs after the 15-minute medical time-out has expired to allow more time before the player must retire from the match. NOTE related to medical time-outs: Case 5-23 in the USAP Casebook establishes how and when a player can rescind a requested medical time-out, and that the medical time-out would not be charged to the player. The ruling has been revised to require that the requested medical time-out be charged to the player.
Paddle Specifications (2.E.2/2.E.5.a/2.E.5.c)
Paddle specifications have been updated to address new and emerging paddle technology and features and to clarify the alterations that players are allowed to make to certified paddles.
Mini-Singles (12.O)
Mini-singles is currently an approved format. The specific rules governing mini-singles are now incorporated in the Rulebook
USA PICKLEBALL Official Rulebook (2024)
Aloha PCPA members and non-members:
In 2023 brought an explosion of players all over the world. In Pueblo Kay and I had the privilege of working with approximately 87 new players.
We tried to bring all local venues into a consistent program of introduction to pickleball. We saw within the groups of players a leadership for direction and play/teaching evolve. It is a love of the game of pickleball that keeps players helping other players learn pickleball. We watch players give time and patience to a new player is always heart warming. We saw a lot of that kind of help this year. This just gives back to the game of pickleball and is a success story we hope will repeat itself in Pueblo.
Pueblo West, Pueblo County Mesa area, MPP, REPS, YMCA, El Centro, PTC,our satellite towns and many drive ways have seen players learning. 2024 will be another large growth in players. We are preparing programs and new venues to assist our growing population.
Thank you for all the support and help this year. We also need to grow the number of instructors and referees. Contact me for more information on how to become and instructor and/or referee.
Clinton Tamada
USAPA ambassador
Director of instruction PCPA