Pickleball Ontario Championship 2016

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We would like to thank Celebrate Markham for their financial contribution to our Tournament.

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Check out the winners listing here (click the link, scroll down the page and find Pickleball Ontario Tournament results):

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[notice title=”Tournament Wrap Up”] I have attempted to include EVERYONE who helped or participated in the most successful Tournament the Pickleball Ontario has had. If your name, picture or video is not here – I apologize for missing you. Please be certain, that it was not on purpose! Pickleball Ontario would like to thank ALL of our volunteers, sponsors and players for making this a memorable event. We look forward to an even BIGGER event in 2017![/notice]

[headline]Volunteers[/headline]

The success of our Tournament was due in large part to an excellent team of volunteers who helped in a variety of ways. This THANK YOU goes out to our referee team (led by Donna Leung and Sau Lin), our scorekeepers and those working ‘the desk’ (Michael Brandon, Norene Clancy, Melissa French and crew), Joseline Sikorski – Rose Cammaert – Norene Clancy (and probably more!) for helping with registration, the gym marshalls and runners who kept everything on track and ANYONE ELSE I missed in this list.

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[headline]Tournament Medalists[/headline]

This year players completed in Mens and Womens Doubles (age categories and Open Division), Mixed Doubles (aged categories and Open Division) plus Mens and Womens Singles events (Open). Over 250 players took part this year – a large increase from last year. Participants ranged from 19 years old to 70+ with a lot of ‘regular’ tournament faces plus many new faces! With 15 courts going at the Markham Pan Am Centre, it was difficult to decide which match to watch when you weren’t playing! (Thank you, Joe Serflek for the great pictures!)

Congratulations to all of the Winners!

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[headline]Tournament Video![/headline]

Yes, VIDEO! Peter Sennett (I hope I spelled that right) took video of many matches included some finals matches. We have posted those videos on YouTube – don’t forget to SUBSCRIBE please!

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[headline]Volunteer Prize Winner[/headline]

Our tournament sponsors were kind enough to provide Prizes for some lucky volunteers. Everyone who volunteered to referee a match, help on the gym floor, etc had their name entered into a drawing for a prize. Some lucky volunteer walked away with a $50 Gift Certificate to Racquet-Science.com (I think maybe there were 2 of those prizes awarded) and Valentyna Stevens walked away with a paddle from Singleton Paddles. Thanks again (we really can’t say it enough) to all the people who helped!

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[headline]AGM Meeting[/headline]

We also held our AGM meeting Friday night before the Tournament. This years AGM was well attended and members heard about the interesting things that have happened with Pickleball Ontario over the past year and heard about the exciting plans for this coming year. We said good-bye to long time Board Members Joseline Sikorski and Bob Cook-Abbott who have decided to step down. But we also said Hello to new members Allen Class, Jim Parrott, Terry Elliot, Jeff Morgan, Derek Anam and Steve Reynolds!

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[headline]Thank you Sponsors![/headline]delmanorengagepickleball-logohearingsolutionsonixrsciencesingleton [/column]