Boise Area Pickleball News

March 19th was another great tournament for BAPA.  A fun time was had by all.

Mitch Mitchell and Kathy Getto took home the GOLD🙂 

Diana Bunger and Judy Caldwell took the SILVER🙂And Rhonda Reed and Dick Johnson took the BRONZE🙂 CONGRATULATIONS to everyone.  See you again at the April Tournament…

Last week Tate Donnelly (9 years old) became the youngest member to join BAPA (Boise Area Pickleball Association)…  He was told that he didn’t have to be a member to play with us, but he was so excited to belong to a “club”.  He asked his mom and she said it was ok for him to join us.  We now can say we as pickleball players that we truly do include all ages… 9 – 90:)

Tate Donnelly

Congratulations Tate on being a part of the fastest growing sport in America… WELCOME!!!

Dennis and Sonya Kincheloe- BAPA (Boise Area Pickleball Association) members have both won Gold Medals in the Hawaii Senior Olympics.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!  Way to represent Idaho:)

We had another great club tournament on February 19th.  Thanks to Kathy Getto and Terry Donohue for putting on the fun event.  We had a total of 24 players.  The format this month was to play 5 games for 10 minutes each, at the end of the 10 minutes you gave the score to the scorekeeper and then drew for another partner for the next game.  When all 5 games were played, the top 16 players were set up for bracket play.  It was a fun tournament.

The results are as follows:

First place : Joe Bonawitz and Jim Sanchez

Joe and Jim

Second place: Dale Brown and Rudy Whittaker

Third place: Jim Crotty and Danette Kroll  

Congratulations to all that participated this month and to those that volunteered to score keep (Jack Bonawitz) and referee…  Also, the goodies were awesome!!  See you next month.  Tentatively set for March 19th – Russ Bell and Doug & Trish Carlson will be putting on the tournament – stayed tuned for more details…