Pickleball players increasing in Butler
Jackie Bullman had a vision.
The East Brady resident shared it with friends Liz Archambault and Brenda Pyle, both of Butler. The vision was pickleball. And it's grown into a phenomenon in the city and beyond.
“I spend part of the year in Florida and got into playing pickleball down there,” Bullman, 62, said. “It's amazing how popular it is, and it's such a basic game.
The pickleball movement began in April 2019 with a handful of players. The contingent grew by word of mouth.
Pickleball is played with a wooden or fiberglass paddle, a whiffleball and a net much smaller than a regular tennis net. Singles or doubles matches can go on, and the playing surface is a quarter the size of a tennis court.
This is an excerpt of a story appearing in Sunday's Butler Eagle.
