This year, there is a new club on Wylie High School’s campus. As pickleball has become a popular activity for students in the past year, a group of Wylie students decided to start a pickleball club.
“We just noticed that a lot of people are playing pickleball, overall, whenever we go play, courts are usually packed, and we figured that a lot of people here at school would like to play too, so we thought it’d be a great way to bring the community together,” Secretary of Pickleball Club Guneet Dhaliwal (12) said.
While the club has not hosted any events or meetings yet, they are ready to begin.
“We’re going to have a meeting soon, like an introductory meeting, and then announce our first event which is going to be a normal pickleball match, like a tournament,” Historian of Pickleball club Kaysan Amin (12) said.
The club will host a plethora of different events and tournaments throughout this school year.
“We’ll have meetings monthly most likely, and then from there we’ll get ideas and set up events,” Dhaliwal said, “We were thinking tournaments, like single (1 v 1) or doubles (2 v 2), mixed doubles ,and set up events where we can just provide a location; we are trying to get permission to use the auxiliary gym here at school and set up nets.”
Additionally, since Wylie East also has a pickleball club, the club plans on doing a tournament with them.
“We’re going to also have a thing with East, Wylie East, like a Wylie vs. Wylie East [tournament],” Amin said.
The club provides students with the opportunity to get involved in an extracurricular that’s not academics or school-based, but focused on having fun and forming connections.
“It’s just to bring everyone together and allow them to have fun,” Dhaliwal said, “Especially the seniors, and then allow everyone else to just, like, just escape from all that high school stress and just get together.”
The founders and officers hope to grow their membership this year, so the club can continue on next year.