Emerging Pro Ben Grant talks about the importance of following your passions, becoming a right-side specialist
As with thousands of other pickleball fanatics, Ben Grant first began playing the sport in earnest during the pandemic. He was sheltered in place near the beach in San Francisco and noticed that as the beach was closed to the public, the parking lot was empty every day. So, he turned it into a makeshift pickleball court. As restrictions began lifting, it became a...
Junior Selkirk Advocate overcomes childhood brain surgery, now uses same resilience on the pickleball court
Carson Jones was not yet born when his parents and doctors realized something was not quite right. Deep in Carson’s skull — basically in the dead center of his brain — was a Hypothalamic Hamartoma, also known as a tumor. A Hypothalamic Hamartoma is a benign formation on the hypothalamus, the area in the brain that controls the production of hormones by the pituitary...
Pickleballers in Missoula attempt Guiness World Record for longest continuous play
Pickleball players in Missoula, Montana, recently made a Guinness World Record attempt at Peak Health + Wellness. About a year ago, pickleball instructor Dave Cook came across a video of pickleball players in Spain attempting to break a world record for longest continuous play. Wanting to put Missoula pickleball on the map, Cook set out to beat the record, which was set at 24...
