An organization called Pickleball SD is searching for a permanent home for lovers of the growing sport and has its sights set on one occupied for decades by the Peninsula Tennis Club in Point Loma.
Pickleball SD's Stefan Boyland speaking with police officers July 28 at the Peninsula Tennis Club.
That pickleball is growing in popularity is not disputed. It's one of the fastest-growing sports in the United States, with nearly 5 million players and a minimum of 8,500 courts in the country,, which says the game was invented in 1965 by Joel Pritchard, a congressman from Washington state. By 1990, pickleball was being played in all 50 states, the organization claims.
Publicity stunt? Takeover? Boyland and his fellow players had cameras running and subsequently posted a video to Youtube that had a semi-viral life, at one point racking up more than 5,000 streams. It's since been taken down by the streamer, citing a"privacy claim by a third party.""How's it going today?" Boyland's distinctive Long Island-accent can be heard querying the clubhouse attendants on the video."Looks pretty empty.
"Yeah, we understand that," Boyland replies."We met with the city. They said that no one has a permit for this place so we're allowed to be here." The conflict on July 28 in some ways is illustrative of the problems some local pickleball enthusiasts have writ large: Not enough courts, no central place to call home.
"In Coronado, they just approved to put in eight courts," Boyland said."There's 25,000 people that live in Coronado. We have 1.5 million people [in the city of San Diego]. If we were to build the same number of pickleball courts in San Diego, we'd have 480 courts." So, how much time is spent by tennis players playing tennis at the Peninsula Tennis Court? Sprague said he didn't know.
"There are a number of factors that would need to be taken into account, including community input and funding sources, among others, so it is extremely difficult to speculate on a time frame," city spokesman Tim Graham stated in an email sent to NBC 7."It would no doubt take several years for a facility to go from planning and design to construction and completion."Years is much longer, though, than Pickleball San Diego seems willing to wait.
"Tennis remains a popular activity in San Diego, and the city is not providing preferential treatment to tennis enthusiasts at the expense of pickleball," Graham emailed."The city is honoring the partnerships established with local nonprofits over many decades to provide tennis programming to the community.
Striping new pickleball courts on some outdoor basketball courts, tennis courts not used for competitive tournament purposes and blacktop areas. This includes pickleball striping at locations such as La Jolla Recreation Center, Standley Recreation Center, Kearny Mesa Recreation Center and Gershwin Park. More pickleball striping locations are under consideration
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