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February 2020

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Discove r Cit yV iewN C.co m's fre s h up d ate d loo k ! | 19 W elcome to Wednesday evening pickleball at Myers Park Recreation Center, where no one seems to want to stop playing. People have been dinking and volleying for nearly three hours now. Even so, if center assistant Dominique weren't telling everyone it's his duty to close the place up, it seems as if some folks would keep playing all night. Perhaps you haven't yet heard about pickleball, but you will. And you will love it. It may sound like a bit of a generalization to say that everyone who tries it loves it. But, really, everyone loves it. "e first time I played," says Jayshawn Campbell, "I was addicted." Campbell, a Westover High School graduate who played football and basketball and then ran track at Campbell University, is a 28-year-old lithe and lean staff sergeant in the Air Force stationed at Fort Sumter in South Carolina. Like many people, he figured pickleball was for the senior citizen set when his father Jason encouraged him to play a few years ago. at's one of the unique attributes of pickleball, generally regarded as the fastest growing sport in America. Stop into Myers Rec on a Wednesday evening, and you'll likely see people of all ages, shapes and sizes, demographics and ethnicities. And they'll all be chatting, chuckling and rotating in and out of games on the three available courts in orderly fashion. Chatting and chuckling, but also overhead slamming or dely angling the ball out of each other's reach every chance they get. "It's something you can learn and get really good at fast," said retired veterinarian John Lauby. "And even the best players are really nice people." According to the USA Pickleball Jayshawn Campbell and Ted Fujimoto relax between games Hunter Matthews is among the youngest pickleball players Sharon O'Hara enjoys a game at Myers Rec Center

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