Building Pickleball courts at AICC

28 Mwezi wa sita, 2024 Updated miezi 10 ago

To build Pickleball courts at the AICC Club in Arusha, Tanzania, we worked with the local tennis pros. They are intrigued to add the sport and agreed to let us turn one of the tennis courts into a multi-sport court. To demo the sport we made lines using masking tape and re-purposed a mini-tennis net using chairs. Once the sport was determined to be fun, we met with a local metal worker to create custom net posts that could be used with either a tennis net, mini-tennis net or badminton net. The first attempt was close but we had to bring the nets back to add a reinforcement (through an angled support beam) in order to keep tension in the net. The second attempt worked great so we contracted two more sets (to get three courts). The next step is to address the cracks in the court and then paint...more updates as that process unfolds.

The AICC Tennis Club in Arusha adds three new Pickleball Courts

We have worked with the local Arusha tennis community for the past year. The coaches are great and with minimal support they are offering a wide range of very high quality youth tennis programs. Recently, a small group of Los Angeles based tennis players donated over 30 tennis rackets, hundreds of grips, 5 reels of strings, hundreds of tennis balls and a few pairs of shoes. It is exciting to see how well this equipment is being used by the coaches and passionate athletes. The students participating in the program range from highly experienced to beginners playing tennis for the first time. Photos and videos can be seen at the instagram account tennis4life_tz

Given how successful our tennis partnership has been, we wondered if the coaches would be interested in trying Pickleball. Last week Maktaba.org (in partnership with Elimu Yetu) helped build 3 custom Pickleball nets (and we are painting lines). Additionally, we have 12 paddles and a bag full of pickleballs...and we are...

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