It’s Time to Purchase your Membership

It’s Time to Buy your 2022 – 2023 Pickleball Membership. If you purchased a seasonal membership last season, it will expire on September 30, 2022.

This year, ALL memberships will be purchased ONLINE. They are no longer available at Seaside Realty. Our new streamlined process will save you time, and will be more efficient and allows for better accounting for the pickleball club. It’s a win-win!

* Check sancarlospickleball.com for online payment info.
* Or use your phone’s QR Reader to Pay online directly with the image to the right.

You will receive your Membership Card and Welcome Letter via email from payments@sancarlospickleball.com in a few days, but you can start to play as soon as you pay!

For the 2022/2023 season, there are 3 different types of Pickleball Memberships (seasonal, monthly / monthly recurring and daily).

Daily: 100 pesos / $5 per day: Good for the day of purchase.

Monthly: 700 pesos / $35 USD per month: 1 Month Pass is valid for 1 month from date of purchase and allows the purchaser unlimited entry into facility during that month. You can also buy a monthly recurring pass if you’d like a payment plan.

Seasonal: 4000 pesos / $200 USD for the year: 1 Year Pass is valid for 1 year from date of purchase. Seasonal pass gets you unlimited admission to facility and 50% discounts on some Club sponsored events.

Grand Opening Tournament November 18 – 21

This tournament will be a classic double elimination skill / age division tournament.

Singles, Doubles and Mixed Doubles divisions will be played throughout the opening three days followed by a Championship 4th day for all the gold medal Open Division matches.

Come out and play in our first tournament at our new facility!

The cost is 1200 pesos ($60 USD), which includes entrance in 1 event. Each additional event costs 200 pesos ($10 USD) more. Register here. Even if you don’t yet have a partner or are not yet in San Carlos, register yourself without a partner and we’ll help to get you paired up — we are working on the t-shirt orders and need your sizes asap. If you would like help finding a partner, you can email Deb at d_forrester@yahoo.com.

In men’s, women’s and mixed doubles, 3.0, 3.5 and 4.0 will play in their skill and age bracket and 4.5 and above will play in the Open Division. The Open Division will be divided in age groups of under 50, 50 – 64 and 65+.

In singles, 3.0 and 3.5 will compete together and 4.0 and above will play in the Open Division. The Open Division will be divided in age groups of 49 and under, and 50 and over.

If there are 3 teams or less in a division, it will be combined with closest age bracket. If there are 4 or 5 teams in a division, it will be run as a Round Robin. 6 teams or more in a division will be run as Standard Double Elimination (best 2 out of 3 games, win by 2 in winners’ bracket and 1 game to 15, win by 2 in consolation bracket).

Schedule:
Friday, November 18: Men’s and Women’s Singles
Saturday, November 19: Mixed Doubles
Sunday, November 20: Men’s and Women’s Doubles
Monday, November 21: Gold Medal Matches in the Open Divisions

There will be medals for all brackets.

New Courts Opening, November 1

Starting November 1, we have 5 days of pickleball and parties planned for members (make sure you get your membership beforehand).

Schedule:

Tuesday, November 1

• Open play all day on courts 1 – 10. Come and enjoy the new courts.
• The party starts at 5pm, with mix, mingle and mariachi, a blessing of the new courts, dance performance and at 7:30pm, The Dudes.

Wednesday, November 2

• Open play all day on courts 1 – 10. Come and enjoy the new courts.

Thursday, November 3

• Kids’ Camp: bring the kids at 3:30pm and Javier, Mariana and Belem will teach them to play (2 hours, bilingual, free for kids)
• New Player Clinic: at 7pm with Javier, Mariana and Belem. If you know someone who has never played, but you think they’d enjoy it (who doesn’t!?), pass on the info and let’s get them hooked. This is a free clinic.

Friday, November 4

• Skills and Drills: 10am – 11:30am and again at night 6pm – 7:30pm. All skill levels welcome. Several volunteer instructors will split the group by ability and work on appropriate skills.

Saturday, November 5

• 9am – 1pm: Fun Competitive Round Robin for everyone skill level 3.0 and above. Register to play here.
• 5pm: Grand Opening Party at the Yacht Club. Please click here to RSVP for the dinner party.

What do we have planned after the Grand Opening?

We’ll have Open Play every morning. Everyone will find someone fun to play with. All ages and abilities will be welcome and find somewhere to play.

We’re also planning round robins, leagues, small fun tournaments and competitive large tournaments. You’ll be able to book the courts during certain hours for private play. And, of course, we’ll have all-club social get togethers!

Please Help Make the Dream a Reality

The new 14 court facility is a great Community Project and something that San Carlos can be proud of. It will be a place for exercise, fun and friendship and a community hub.

We’ve created a GoFundMe campaign.

Please donate now

Every little bit helps. Thank you in advance.

Please get in touch with me (Christa Thomas) at: christa@whatsupsancarlos.com if you would like to donate a more significant amount. We have several court sponsorships and commemorative bricks of various levels that recognize the donations that went above and beyond to make this project a success. You can have your name or business name on a court or on the sponsors’ wall. You can read more about it on our website.

Please consider buying a brick. Bricks will be prominently featured on a beautiful focal accent wall just inside the court entrance / exit. The following levels are available:

• $2500 USD or more (50,000 pesos) Platinum
• $1000 USD (20,000 pesos) Gold
• $500 USD (10,000 pesos) Silver
• $250 USD (5000 pesos) Bronze

Update on Construction

We’ve had an exceptionally rainy summer which has caused some rain delays. We’re still on track to open November 1 and will be ready for the first week of festivities and the November 18 tournament. But, the facility will be a construction zone for awhile as we continue to work on the buildings at the front of the facility (where we’ll have bathrooms, office, storage and a pro shop). This shouldn’t affect your play on the courts.

We have the funds to complete the courts and wall and at least one side of the building.

Since the bricks arrived on August 24, the wall has been going up at a good pace. Every court will have air flow bricks placed in a pleasing design.
6 courts have asphalt. All 6 have been sealed, and the fence holes and net holes are done.
Championship court, the 7th court on the north side, has been leveled and is ready to be built.
We have 14 net & post sets, generously donated by Gearbox.
We worked with an architect on designing the front building and have submitted it to Control Urbano in Guaymas for the building permit.

Here are the 6 completed courts, each  measuring 20 x 10.5. Ready to be painted a beautiful sand and sea color theme.

The wall up close.

Here’s a sneak peak at our wall design with the airflow bricks. This shows the design for 1 court.

Look how big championship court will be (the smoothed area in the photo). The two 14 x 23.5 championship courts should be big enough for even our most athletic high flyers. This court will be finished in the next week. We’ll then start on the 7 courts on the south side of the facility.

Look how beautiful the area is!

Thank you to these generous sponsors

click on their logos to visit their websites