Jenny and I celebrated Valentine’s Day as well as her 28th birthday! Happy Birthday Jenny! We went home to Wisconsin and had a great family dinner (missing Murray )! The very next day, Jenny had her bridal shower. Now we have no more wedding-related activities until the actual wedding itself on March 30!
I only had one tournament since the last newsletter, but it’s been a wild couple of weeks! I headed back to Arizona for the first progression draw of the year for me. Progression draws are where teams play one match per day until the tournament is concluded. Alli Philips and I partnered up for the first time in mixed, and unfortunately we lost, but she’s definitely a player to watch out for. Christian and I lost in 3 games to a good Arizona based team of Augie Ge and Craig Johnson.
To cope with a rough weekend, what could be better than puppy yoga?! And that’s exactly what we did! We also escaped the Gold Mine! The following weekend I headed to Orlando for a Solar Bears (What a cool name!) hockey game. The Solar Bears are owned by the same people that own the Orlando Squeeze, so they invited us there for pickleball night. Anna, Rachel, Andrei, and I signed autographs for an hour straight. It was crazy to see how many Squeeze fans attended the meet and greet! Hockey is wild. There were at least 5 fist fights during the game. Should pickleball embrace this?!
As promised, my new series, Pros vs 5.0s, has debuted on my YouTube channel! This is where 5.0s will have some sort of an advantage over the pros, all playing for a $500 pot. I appreciate all your comments and feedback so far! I’m having a blast making these videos, so the more ideas you send me the better!
At long last, we have a closed merger agreement between PPA and MLP!
I for one, am massively relieved for this milestone to pass and get all focus back to the game itself!
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