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Professional Pickleball Registry<\/p>\nProfessional Pickleball Registry<\/p>\n
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C.<\/strong> – At the recent Professional Pickleball Registry (PPR) Conference held in Rancho Mirage, California, PPR Chairman Hemel Cosme and PPR President\/CEO Dan Santorum presented the organization\u2019s annual awards. “The sport of pickleball continues to see amazing growth in this country and around the world,” Cosme says. “We\u2019re thrilled that our PPR members and member organizations continue to contribute to the health and vitality of this incredible sport.”<\/p>\n Chairman\u2019s & President\u2019s Award – Collin Johns<\/strong><\/p>\n Recently selected to serve on the PPR Board of Directors, Collin Johns has been actively involved in the organization since 2019, when he became a PPR Clinician. A top-ranked professional pickleball player, he regularly contributes as a columnist to the PPR publication Around the Post, as well as writing a column for Pickleball Magazine. \u201cCollin is such an impressive, yet humble, professional player and coach educator,\u201d says PPR President and CEO Dan Santorum. \u201cThe morning after winning the Open Doubles gold medal at USAP Nationals in November with his brother Ben, Collin came to the PPR awards breakfast to receive his award, was the leadoff speaker following the event, assisted Jarrett Chirico with his on-court presentation, and posed for photos with several PPR members afterward. Simply amazing!\u201d A PPR-sponsored player whose paddle sponsor is Electrum, Johns, who lives in Austin, TX, is the founder and co-owner of Pickleball 360 (pickleball360.com), an excellent online instructional website. Select Pickleball 360 videos are part of a new PPR member benefit.<\/p>\n PPR Pro of the Year – Jeff Rausch<\/strong><\/p>\n Jeff Rausch of Austin, TX, is one of a select few \u201c4-Star\u201d Professionals, earning certifications in Pickleball (PPR), Tennis (PTR), Platform Tennis (PPTR), and Padel (PCR). He\u2019s the Head Pickleball Pro and Tennis Pro at Lost Creek Country Club in Austin, Texas, an Invited Club. \u201cThere are less than 20 coaches in the world who have achieved the prestigious feat of being a 4-Star certified member,\u201d says PPR Vice-Chairman Jarrett Chirico , a fellow 4-Star pro. \u201cJeff is a knowledgeable and dedicated PPR Clinician, having traveled throughout the country to conduct more than 40 PPR Level 1 workshops with over 370 participants in 2022.\u201d Rausch is a Senior Contributor to SportsEdTV.com, contributing author to both the PPR column in Pickleball Magazine and PPR\u2019s Around the Post magazine and a member of Team Head Pickleball.<\/p>\n PPR Clinician of the Year – Vicki Foster<\/strong><\/p>\n Vicki Foster of Scottsdale, AZ, who has been a PPR Clinician for the last three years, conducted 20 PPR Level 1 certification workshops in 2022. She\u2019s been teaching and competing in pickleball since 2007 when her family built a court in their yard. A sponsored player on Team Gamma, Foster has won multiple U.S. and Canadian national championships at the 5.0 level. \u201cAfter every workshop that Vicki runs, we receive several complimentary emails from workshop participants praising her for her clinician skills,\u201d says the PPR\u2019s Julie Jilly, who manages the extensive and constantly growing PPR Workshop certification program. \u201cShe is thorough and has a positive attitude with her students\u2014and continues to help make this sport thrive.\u201d<\/p>\n PPR Private Facility of the Year – Royal Oaks Country Club<\/strong><\/p>\n The first thing you see when you drive into the Royal Oaks Country Club in Dallas, TX, is the new pickleball facility, which has become a focal point for the club. The facility has six new, dedicated pickleball courts, each with LED lighting surrounded by WiFi, speakers, and live-stream cameras. If more pickleball courts are needed, the club can always put the tennis courts into use. Presiding over this pickleball hotbed are the club\u2019s General Manager, Todd Harbour, and the Director of Racquets, Jarrett Chirico, who both played a key role in making the new pickleball facility a reality. As a result of the new pickleball courts, Racquets at ROCC has doubled in growth to become one of the biggest programs in the U.S. ROCC hosted six PPR workshops in 2022 and has plans to host eight more in 2023. PPR Board member Collin Johns, one-half of the world\u2019s No. 1 doubles team, raves about playing at Royal Oaks. \u201cThe facility is awesome,\u201d Johns says. \u201cJarrett is the consummate promoter of both pickleball and tennis.\u201d Recently, ROCC hosted a \u201cOne Night Only, With the World\u2019s Best\u201d event, which attracted 400 members and more than 10,000 who viewed the event online through the PPA Tour live stream. Created by Chirico, the event featured the world\u2019s No. 1 golfer, Scottie Scheffler, who played with the world\u2019s No. 1 pickleball player, Ben Johns. It was the first time the world\u2019s top PGA golfer and top PPA pickleball player had ever been on the same court.<\/p>\n PPR Commercial Facility of the Year – Pickleballerz<\/strong><\/p>\n In October 2020, Beverly and Greg Raelson opened the amazing 20,000-square-foot Pickleballerz in Chantilly, VA\u2014the first dedicated indoor pickleball facility in the Mid-Atlantic region. The venue has hosted more than a dozen PPR Certification Workshops over the last two years, allowing more than 100 coaches to access pickleball training and certification, regardless of the weather. \u201cThe facility has six regulation pickleball courts, a separate dinking practice court, a pro shop, and a cafe with food and alcoholic and non-alcoholic refreshments,\u201d says Sonny Tannan, PPR Clinician who has conducted several PPR certification workshops at Pickleballerz. \u201cIt\u2019s the go-to spot in the Northern Virginia\/Washington DC area for beginners learning to play pickleball. Their PPR-certified coaches have taught thousands of the area\u2019s newest pickleball players in our Pickleball 101, 201, and 301 series clinics.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C.<\/strong> – At the recent Professional Pickleball Registry (PPR) Conference held in Rancho Mirage, California, PPR Chairman Hemel Cosme and PPR President\/CEO Dan Santorum presented the organization\u2019s annual awards. “The sport of pickleball continues to see amazing growth in this country and around the world,” Cosme says. “We\u2019re thrilled that our PPR members and member organizations continue to contribute to the health and vitality of this incredible sport.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[379,426],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8692"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8693,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8692\/revisions\/8693"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}