Janie Morris
LHCPBA President
WELCOME MEMBERS!
Greetings LHCPBA Members!
I am excited for the 2024-2025 season of Pickleball in Lake Havasu City and, on behalf of the full time local players, would like to welcome back our Snowbird players as they start arrving in the Fall! Our current Membership has almost 500 players so far in 2024, including over 100 new members. Here's some of the things the Lake Havasu City Pickleball Association has planned or completed so far this year.
1. ARK Center Flooring Project
Last March/April 2024, we started a fundraising campaign to raise $35K to replace the flooring at The ARK Center, a gym now owned by the Inspire Church, where we play on three indoor courts. Thanks to our generous donors, we exceeded our goal and raised a total of $45K allowing us to repaint the entire gym, replace over 80 bulbs, make repairs to the plumbing and AC units, buy new chairs and more! The ARK Center reopening the first week of June and has been busy offering pickleball five days a week!
2. Lighting on Four Courts
The Association presented the City with a $50,000 donation for the purchase of a lighting system on four courts. The City has agreed to install the lights at no cost to us and the expected installation date is October 2024.
3. PickleFest Annual Tournament
Our biggest fund raising event each year is our annual tournament. This last tournament in February, PickleFest 2024, was a huge success and we had over 230 registered players. Now we look forward to PickleFest 2025 scheduled for 2/28/24 - 3/1/24 (non-sanctioned). Registration for the tournament will be on pickleballbrackets.com and go "live" on 11/1/23.
4. DSP Upper Parking Lot Paving
The upper parking lot was included in the CIP City Budget for this fiscal year 2024 -2025. The project has gone out for bid and we are hopeful to have the parking lot complete before year end 2024 in time for our annual PickleFest 2025 tournament.
5. Custom Brick Fundraising
Custom brick sales Phase 3 is currently underway until 10/1/14. Phase 1 of bricks sales completed on 9/20/22 and the first batch of bricks has been installed by the City in the area between the upper courts known as the “alley”. Phase 2 of the Brick Sales completed in 10/15/23 and were installed in January 2024. Proceeds for this fundraiser go towards soft sun shades between the hard shell ones, a second bathroom, power at upper courts, more concrete to fill in dirt areas by courts, ball machine, training wall, safety toppers on short fences, blowers/squeegees for drying courts, etc.
6. Association Member Only Activities
We are offering Association sponsored Member activities again this year such as weekly Round Robins by skill level, Sign up with a Partner Round Robin, Mini Singles play, novice/intermediate clinics, etc. I need some new folks willing to volunteer to be on this very exciting committee as we have some members retiring. If you are interested, please email me (Janie Morris) directly.
Feel free to contact me with any suggestions, concerns or observations that will help improve our mutual pickleball experience.
See you on the courts!
Janie Morris, President
LHCPBA
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