Tag: Arizona Pickleball Players League

Sports, December 2021

Relishing Pickleball: Arizona Pickleball Players League News—White Mountain Region to Be Added as the Fifth APPL Region

December 15, 2021

David Zapatka The Arizona Pickleball Players league (APPL) has now expanded its popular team-based pickleball league into its fifth region. After founding the first team-based pickleball league, East Valley Interclub League in 2012 (which has grown ever since), the Arizona Pickleball Players League was formally organized as a nonprofit in 2019 by a group of…

The Creekers

April 15, 2021

Left to right: Bill Vollink, Tom Dean, Jim Malone, Greg Dinnocenti, Doug Warren, Steve Shapiro, Dave Mungo, Doug Stacken, Doug Christy, Pat Kolark, Dave Thomas, and Brian Leikhus. Absent from photo: Jeff Grass and Al Skoglund

Steve Shapiro The Arizona Pickleball Players League (APPL) expanded to the Tucson area in 2021. Before the expansion, the league had been in the Phoenix Metro/Casa Grande area. The APPL is made up of a men’s and women’s league for skill levels 3.0, 3.5, 4.0, and 4.5/5.0. Quail Creek took part in the Tucson area…