TTPC News
Stay up to date on progress on the exciting project to build 16 pickleball courts at River View Sports Park - and on fun TTPC events!
- Looking for a new paddle to up your game? You can demo the best Selkirk paddles right here in Truckee. Just reach out to Dan Jenkins, the pickleball teaching pro at Truckee Rec Center. Dan, a TTPC club member, will give you expert advice to find the perfect paddle to suit your game. Email Dan at: [email protected]. ***Also, Dan is inviting TTPC club members and friends to use his digital gift card code, ADV-DJENKINS, when ordering paddles and gear at selkirk.com.*** Details on digital gift cards can be found at: selkirk.com/advocate-code.
- The Pickleball Club and the Truckee Rec District have hired High West Landscape Architects, a local firm who will develop the schematics and architectural drawings for the pickleball complex. We met in mid October to review the wish list for the project to ensure its the best of the best pickleball complexes. The drawings should be ready in February, at which point we will start talking to the Town of Truckee about the necessary permits to begin construction in the spring.
- Shop for your favorite pickle gear and support our club!! Just use the CRTruckeeCA discount code at Pickleball Central. You will receive 5% off and the club will get 5%. Thank you! and Happy Shopping!!
- Join us at 3:30 p.m. on Sunday, October 9, at Truckee Rec Center - for our raffle, play, dinner event! First we raffle off items so generously donated by Truckee businesses! Then, we play pickleball! Then, it's dinner at Casa Baeza, which so generously donates 15% of proceeds back to the club! Yes, we are having FUN while raising MONEY!
- The TTPC is now sponsored by Pickleball Superstore. When you buy items here, please use code TRUCKEE10. You will get 10% off and the Club will get a percentage from your purchase.
- At 10 a.m. on Tuesday, September 13, we got our 50th member! Via this website!!
- Our first Member Event will be held at 3:30 p.m. on Sunday, September 18, in the Truckee Rec Center. We will have a quick update on the Truckee Pickleball Complex and give members their new TTPC T-shirts. At 4 p.m., we’ll play our favorite game – Pickleball! – in the gym. Please invite your pickle friends who may be interested joining our club and supporting the project. We would love to have them join us! We look forward to seeing you!!
- Truckee pickleball player, Kerry Teegen, became the TTPC’s Events Coordinator, and is working on plans for upcoming get-togethers that will include playing our favorite game: Pickleball!
- At 4:45 on Saturday, August 27, the TTPC received its first donation via this website!
- In August, the board ordered T-shirts and hats to sell on the website’s merchandise page. Each new Founding Member of the TTPC will be given one of our logo T-shirts.
- The board created a mission statement, and a logo, and started Facebook and Instagram pages to share our news and celebrate pickleball in the region. Working with Truckee pickleball player, Parsha Pourkhomami, it developed this website.
- Working together, and with the help of Truckee pickleball player Kevin Neiland, the board and district submitted grant requests to the Truckee Rotary Club, the Truckee Tahoe Airport District, and the Martis Camp Foundation. The board is actively looking for additional grants.
- The board is working to hire a landscape architect who will design the courts, walkways, and benches and will manage the grading and construction permit with the Town of Truckee. We plan to apply for permits this fall. If we get permits by the spring, and if we have a successful fundraising campaign, we will proceed as quickly as possible with grading and construction.
- Our fundraising target is $600,000. That is the rough estimate of what it will cost to build the courts. If after putting the project out to bid, the project costs more than these early estimates, the board will continue the fundraising campaign. The board would also consider breaking the construction project into phases, building a few courts at a time.
- Working with Alpine Meadows pickleball player and retired professional surveyor, James Kiehl, the board surveyed the land at the River View Park in preparation for architect drawings and permit applications. With a permit to build, work can begin on grading the land and requesting construction bids.
- On July 28, the District voted to give half its 2023 discretionary budget - $50,0000 – toward building the complex.
- The all-volunteer Board consists of President Fred Safipour, Vice President Will Mendoza, Membership Director Don Beaty, Secretary/Treasurer Doug Rinella, and Communications Director Susan Safipour.
- The TTPC's mission is to grow the great sport of pickleball - for all ages and abilities - in the Truckee Tahoe region by bringing the community together, building courts, hosting socials, offering clinics, and sponsoring tournaments.
- On July 27, the Board of Directors of the new Truckee Tahoe Pickleball Club was voted into office at the club’s first official meeting. Followed by fun pickle play in the Rec Center gym, and dinner at Casa Baeza.
- On June 23, the Truckee-Donner Recreation & Park District designated one acre of land at its River View Sports Park for a pickleball complex.
