Adult Pickleball

Who's ready?!

Registration is now open for the Champaign Family YMCA Fall Team Pickleball League, and we're picking up right where we left off this spring with the team format that worked so well!

FALL LEAGUE AT A GLANCE

Sundays beginning September 20
Teams: 4 players - 2 men & 2 women
Maximum: 10 teams / 40 players
Cost: $50 YMCA Members | $75 Non-Members

If we fill all 10 teams, we'll play a 9-week regular season, possibly playing a team more than once, and planning for a two bracket tournament on November 22.

League Dates:
Sept. 20 & 27
Oct. 4, 11, 18 & 25
Nov. 1, 8 & 15

SAME TEAM FORMAT WE USED THIS SPRING

Each weekly matchup consists of six series played over two courts:

Round 1: Mixed A vs. Mixed A / Mixed B vs. Mixed B
Round 2: Men's Doubles / Women's Doubles
Round 3: Mixed A vs. Opponent Mixed B / Mixed B vs. Opponent Mixed A

Each series is best 2-out-of-3 games to 7. Every series won earns your team one point, giving each team six possible points each week.

* NEW THIS FALL - HELP US BALANCE THE COMPETITION *

Because everyone registers individually, each player will be asked to honestly rate their own skill level during registration. Please be as accurate as you can! We'll use those individual ratings along with the others on your team to help us understand each team's overall skill level and create the most competitive schedule possible.

Not sure where you fall? Use this as a simple guide:

2.5 & Under - Beginner
Newer to pickleball or still developing consistency. You understand, or are learning, the basic rules and scoring and can sustain some short rallies, but serves, returns, dinks and shot placement may still be inconsistent.

3.0 - Advanced Beginner
You know the rules and positioning, regularly get serves and returns in play and can sustain basic rallies and some dinking. You're becoming more comfortable at the kitchen, but consistency and unforced errors are still a work in progress.

3.5 - Intermediate
You play consistently, get most serves and returns in with some control, can sustain longer dink rallies and are beginning to use third-shot drops, drives and changes of pace intentionally. You understand getting to the kitchen and are becoming more comfortable moving and playing strategically with a partner.

4.0+ - Advanced Intermediate / Advanced
You play with good consistency, depth and control; use serves, returns, dinks, drops, drives, volleys and resets with purpose; understand court positioning and partner movement; and can adjust your strategy based on your opponents while making fewer unforced errors.

Our goal isn't to eliminate competition... it's to create more good, competitive games and fewer 7-0, 7-0 mismatches whenever possible.

Players of all levels are welcome. We simply ask everyone to be as honest and accurate as possible so we can create the best experience we can for the entire league.

MATCH TIMES

Matches will be scheduled in one-hour windows beginning at 4:00 PM.

With six series packed into each matchup, some nights we may run a few minutes ahead and other nights a few minutes behind. Please arrive a little early and be ready to play when courts become available. Likewise, don't panic if we're still wrapping up the previous match at your scheduled start time!

Our goal is simply to keep the games rolling whenever courts are available. Based on our spring league, things generally even themselves out throughout the evening, and even our final group (if max teams) should normally be finished by approximately 9:00 PM.

Registration OPEN space is limited to 10 teams!  Stop at the Y, OR use the link below!

Questions? Feel free to reach out!