If one of your New Year's resolutions is to find a new hobby and be more active, the YMCA of Greater Brandywine might have just the winning combination.
Linda and Jim Brobson are in a real pickle. With a score of 5-9-1, they're losing their first game of pickleball, but they're not worried about their competition on the court. The Brobsons play towards a comeback.The Brobsons joke, but since retiring last spring, they play pickleball five or six times a week as members of the Upper Main Line YMCA.And the YMCA of Greater Brandywine's Director of Pickleball, Tim Irwin, says they're not alone in their pickleball addiction.
Introductory clinics are offered once a week at five locations of the YMCA of Greater Brandywine, and they're run by pickleball pros. Two longtime Upper Main Line YMCA members, John Anderson and Fred Witzeling, got the pickleball program rolling about five years ago.Anderson says he asked Witzeling to help teach and Witzeling's been volunteering as a coach ever since. They've worked together to help promote and become ambassadors of the program.Irwin explains pickleball is played with a paddle and a ball that is "like a wiffle ball.
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