AÂ healthy junior pickleball program recently sprung up in northeast Mesa, and, thanks to the support of a passionate professional and his enthusiastic older players, young players now are gravitating to pickleball like roots gravitate to water.
Red Mountain Ranch Country Club pickleball director Ryan Trefry, a California transplant, believes that with a little nurturing, organized competitive pickleball for junior players will take root in Arizona if they are simply introduced to the fastest growing sport in America.
âItâs just a matter of reaching the kids and getting them on the court, because once they get on the court they love it,â said Ryan, a 5.0 pickleball professional who has accumulated more than 100 pickleball competition medals over the past four years.