{"id":25283,"date":"2021-11-28T21:07:55","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T03:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=25283"},"modified":"2021-11-28T22:03:17","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T04:03:17","slug":"nahola-team-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=25283","title":{"rendered":"Nahola Team Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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Karen Fox, Ramon Lozano, Bo Tolbert and I played on the team tournament at Nahola last weekend. I played in the event last year<\/a> and recalled how much fun I had so, when Karen and Ramon invited me to be on their team, I immediately said yes. Bo, who was my partner in the ICT Fall-out pickleball tournament, agreed to be my mixed partner. <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

The day of the tournament, November 20, happened to be Ramon’s birthday so, to surprise him, I got “EVERYBODY LOVES RAMON” shirts made for our team. It’s kind of an inside joke because they kept butchering his name at the PC Smash<\/a> tournament last month. They were pronouncing it “Ray-mon” instead of “Rah-mon” with a short A sound. <\/p>\n

Karen got a matching cake made. It was delicious! <\/p>\n

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There were seven amazing teams that played in the tournament. Typically, Kayla only allows six teams because there are only two courts. Allowing for a seventh team made for a really long day and quite a bit of waiting in between matches. We started at 9 AM and didn’t finish until 5 PM, which people ended up leaving near the end because of other commitments (we all thought we would be done by 3 o’clock – Brian and I had a nail appointment at 4 PM that we ended up rescheduling for another day). It was still a lot of fun despite all the waiting and even though we didn’t get to complete all of the matches. <\/p>\n

Here are some pictures of the teams that participated in the team event. <\/p>\n

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Steve Vetter, Jen Reifschneider, Jen Tiano, and Jon Maugans (the winning team)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Michael McLemore, Greta Siemens, Denise Brinkworth, and Mike Adams (second place team)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Zach Nguyen, Fong Witte, Amy Jaramillo, and Matthew Rochat<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Donnie and Tiffany Lesperance, Kimberly Howe, and Mark Armstrong<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Mike Maloney, Shawna Geist, and Cindy and Ed Egan<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Chris Wilson, Ian Carr, Michelle Dreiling, and Sharon Steimel also played but I missed getting a picture of their team. I actually didn’t get the pics of the first and second place teams. I stole those pics from the Nahola Facebook page. LOL. <\/p>\n

Anyway, this format is really fun. I wouldn’t mind doing it again but probably not if there are seven teams because that was the reason for the extended waits between matches. Seven teams would work if you had three courts. <\/p>\n

We are doing something similar at Chicken N Pickle<\/a> next weekend on December 4. It’s going to be a team event patterned after Major League Pickleball<\/a>. I’m playing just because it’s a different format and I was want to try something new and different. I’m kind of excited for it and will let you know how it goes. We might even livestream it. Stay tuned! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Karen Fox, Ramon Lozano, Bo Tolbert and I played on the team tournament at Nahola last weekend. I played in the event last year and recalled how much fun I had so, when Karen and Ramon invited me to be on their team, I immediately said yes. Bo, who was my partner in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2385,2304],"tags":[3229,3137,3409],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25283"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25283"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25287,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25283\/revisions\/25287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}