Club owners and facility operators can now sign up to attend our Club Breakout Session, running from 1-5 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 7. This will be an intimate, in-depth conversation and learning opportunity for club owners and facility operators held in a private meeting room to encourage connection, networking and deeper level discussions on topics that affect…
As with any new club, the founders of West Coast Pickleball in Yorba Linda, California, knew that to get players in the door, they first had to be aware that the club existed. To help spread the word, Club Director James Byun utilized a variety of marketing tactics with minimal costs.
When the club opened in December of 2024, Jason and his co-workers went to the streets to find pickleball players where they already were. As the first indoor pickleball facility in Orange County, they had something unique to offer players and were eager to tell the community about their facility.
With an eye on the local market, West Coast Pickleball provided an article on the newly opened club to a neighborhood magazine that is distributed to 15,000 homes. They also went one step further to ensure nearby players were aware of the newly built six-court facility in the area.
What do you get when you cross an entrepreneur and the fastest-growing sport in the United States? The Cleveland Pickleball Center! Since opening in February 2025, Cleveland’s first and only dedicated indoor pickleball center offers three outdoor and ten indoor courts, state-of-the-art LED lighting, private event and party space, bar, players lounge areas, on-site parking with EV charging stations and more.
Cleveland Pickleball Center President Rob Euerle says he understood the appeal of pickleball after playing one game. Looking around town he noticed while there were some city-owned outdoor recreational properties, there wasn’t anything that allowed players to play year-round. He saw a great opportunity to bring the sport to Cleveland and was eager to take advantage of it.
RT. 12 Pickle is an indoor pickleball club located in West Boylston, Massachusets. RT. 12 is a pure pickleball club devoted to providing quality gameplay for everyone who walks through the front door. Ben Minsk and the folks at RT. 12 have done an excellent job of introducing new players to the game through clinics and other engaging programs.
In the Spring of 2022, Minsk was ready to start a new venture. He thought starting a pickleball club would be a great way to occupy himself after spending five years in retirement: “I was retired for five years and wasn’t quite sure what to do with myself. I just knew right from the get-go that I wanted to do something.”
The people at Southcoast pickleball are all about community. Co-owner Adam Rogers calls the Southcoast a “community-centric” club. Everything that the club does centers around forming and growing a vibrant sense of community. Southcoast has a large number of regulars, but it does not offer traditional memberships. Rogers remarks, “We are not a membership-based club.” Instead, the folks at Southcoast rely on strong programming and hospitality to bring in regular attendees. For Southcoast, hospitality and community bring people back to the facility, not necessarily memberships.
Solitaire, skiing, knitting – some things are just fine to do as a single pringle. Others, like pickleball, are reliant on another person. But what does a single player do with a paddle but no partner? Pickleballerz in Chantilly, Virginia wondered the same thing. And in the spirit of adaptation and innovation, they came up with a solution.
Pickleballerz was the first indoor facility in Virginia and essentially the entire East Coast when it opened in 2019. It is now home to nearly 600 members who enjoy a pro shop, a fully stocked bar area and most importantly its six fully dedicated pickleball courts with hard surfaces and permanent nets.
