{"id":30600,"date":"2026-04-28T11:24:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T16:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=30600"},"modified":"2026-04-28T11:24:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T16:24:51","slug":"national-pickleball-month-mega-fiesta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=30600","title":{"rendered":"National Pickleball Month MEGA Fiesta"},"content":{"rendered":"

Did you know that April is National Pickleball Month? If you’ve been following me, then you probably already know this because I am completely obsessed with pickleball and will tell everyone all sorts of pickleball factoids and am eager to celebrate my favorite hobby all month. Much like previous years<\/a>, I planned some activities throughout the month to bring people together to celebrate. <\/p>\n

To kick things off, we decided to host a MEGA Fiesta<\/a> at TapNPaddles<\/a>. For those who are unfamiliar with it, I host a Friday Night Fiesta<\/a> round robin group every week at TapNPaddles. We started it last year and it has evolved over time. We’ve had as many as 16 teams (32 players) on 8 courts but on average probably get about 8-10 teams on average. <\/p>\n

Anyway, to kick off National Pickleball Month festivities, we decided to have a MEGA event on April 3. We took over all 12 courts at TapNPaddles from 6 PM to close. Since we had 24 teams, we divided everyone into three pools of 8 teams each. After the round robin matches, the teams competed in a single elimination bracket to determine the winners. Besides the event lasting four hours (instead of the normal 2 hours), we also received a $250 grant from USA Pickleball<\/a> which we used on some heavy appetizers and finger foods for the players. We also had festive decorations, fun prizes, and drink specials. We brought the sign board back out for people to write “why they love pickleball” and my friend Susie Ternes made an awesome photo booth which was a huge hit. It was a great kick off party overall.<\/p>\n

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Instead of using the usual king and queen crowns that we use for photos each week, I leaned in to the “fiesta” theme and got these mini sombrero headbands from Amazon to “crown” our winners. They usually don’t get to keep my fancy crowns which we just use for photo ops but they did get to keep these cute sombreros. <\/p>\n

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I got a bunch of “fiesta” decorations just to be more festive. A few people, like Jeanette Santo and Hai Nguyen, came early to help decorate. <\/p>\n

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We took some fun photos at Susie’s photo booth.<\/p>\n

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Susie’s custom photo both props were hilarious! <\/p>\n

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Bharath Reddiyar and Amy Dupont won the top group.<\/p>\n

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Karen Fox and Devon Fuller won the middle group.<\/p>\n

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Taylor Griffin and Rob Adams won the bottom group.<\/p>\n

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It was a Friday Night Fiest for the ages! Here’s a highlight video I made: <\/p>\n