RallyUp Women’s Intermediate
Pickleball Camp in
The Villages, FL

I spent a career in classrooms before I spent one on a pickleball court. High school, then college, with a bachelor's and a master's in education, and a lot of years teaching people who had never once done the thing I was about to show them. That is still the job. Getting somebody from where they are to somewhere better before the morning is out.

I found pickleball in 2004, back when you still had to spell it for people, and I have taught it every year since. Twenty-one years. A lot of the women I coach picked the game up later in life, played their way to a 3.0 or a 3.5, and then stopped moving. Nearly always for one or two reasons they cannot see from inside their own game. I can see them from the side of the court in about fifteen minutes.

Somewhere along the way I got competitive about it. Over 120 medals, gold at the Minto US Open, gold at the National Senior Games, and I was voted Pickleball Athlete of the Decade after fifteen golds at the Florida Senior Games across ten years. I mention it so you know the person correcting your third shot can still hit one when it counts.

If you have ever searched how to hit a third shot drop, there is a decent chance we have already met. Over 200 videos on YouTube as PicklePongDeb, nearly all of them made because a student asked me the same question twice.

Recreation Plantation is my home court. I am the teaching pro here, so on Saturday, October 10 you get the woman who runs these courts, and a court full of women stuck at exactly the rating you are.