2022 Top 100 Pickleball Shots (34+ minutes)

2022 Schedule (55 Tournaments/Expositions, 400+ Hours Match Videos)

15-year old Anna Leigh Waters Pro Singles Titles, Triple Crowns

Photo: Scott Jarvie, Jarvie Digital (Media Photo Gallery)

Playing Pickleball 10+ Hours A Week Is A Health Prescription

Angela Gallafent straps a 15lb liquid oxygen tank on her back in order to get enough exercise to feel normal

POCATELLO, IDAHO (JANUARY 2, 2023) - Last June, Angela Gallafent, 46, was “sitting in a hospital emergency room, dealing with an adverse reaction to the medication that is infused round-the-clock to my heart through a central intravenous line.”

While waiting for medical treatment, she was browsing a pickleball Facebook group, The Kitchen, which she had just discovered the previous day. And in particular, she scrolled on an item posted by pickleball pro and coach Dayne Gingrich, who asked a simple question: “What drives you to play?”

Gallafent had nothing better to do as she waited for treatment on that June day, so she typed out an answer on her phone. It read, in part:

“My reason? Staying alive … I can only last 15 seconds without high-flow oxygen on. With it? I tell new, concerned opponents not to let the backpack fool you. I have to make a 6-hour round trip drive almost every week to pick up liquid oxygen so I can play.

Plus, I’m on a 24-hour IV pump that dumps medication directly into my heart. At this point, I’ll be on it for life. So I play with oxygen strapped on my back and my pump strapped around the front of my waist. It’s a 30-40 minute routine for me to get my medical stuff in place so I can walk onto a court, but worth it every time.”

Then, because she is frequently exhausted, she fell asleep. By the time she had woken up in the ER from her nap, her phone had exploded with reverential replies from other pickleball players.

She had gone viral.” - (The Pickler - Pickleball Is Breath of Life for Backpack-Toting Inspirational Player) (Read More)