Tuesday, 20 January, 2026
In the heart of Westminster—home to one of the largest Vietnamese-American communities in the United States—a new kind of gathering place is growing, not around a dining table or a café, but on the pickleball court. Lavender Sports Club was created with a simple but powerful idea: use sport to […]
Pickleball was born in the summer of 1965 on Bainbridge Island, Washington, when three friends—Joel Pritchard, Bill Bell, and Barney McCallum—improvised a backyard game using a wiffle ball, paddles, and a lowered badminton net. What started as a family pastime soon evolved into a national phenomenon that combines the best […]