Got Questions? Here's answers
This is our first time running this event. You have questions (ya, so do we) but with a lot of help, we hope we can answer everything here. Look over the questions and click on the arrow to expand the answer.
Your $50 will get you and the other members on your team a t-shirt of the event as well a guarantee that you and your team will get to play a minimum of 3 games. Plus, you are donating to a FANTASTIC cause.
Teams will be assigned to games that must start at a set and scheduled time. All games are 10 minutes long (no more, no less). Rally scoring will be used, meaning that after every serve someone will get a point. At the end of 10 minutes, both teams will report the game results to a court reporter. Regardless of score, teams will play till the end of 10 minutes to dtermine the winner.
Here's a video to help you understand how the game of pickelball is played.
General Rules
Your $20 is going a loooong way.
- 50% of funds received go direclty to the American Cancer Society
- 25% go toward the Tom Schlegel, Live Your Legacy Scholarship fund which offers annual scholarships to students going into health related majors in college.
- 25% goes into the an activty accoun that is used to cover the event costs, preparations for next year and after a few years, purchases a new fitness center item for the Tom Schlegel Fitness Center at Neuqua Valley High School.
We are planning to start the first set of games at 9:30am. There will be a required rules meeting before the start at 9:00am. We hope to have all 3 leagues completed by 3:00pm.
Yes, we are working with local vendors to provide food for purchase throughout the day. As we get closer, we will let you know some of the items available for purchase.
We are happy to provide pickleball paddles to participants if needed. We will require a form of ID to hold onto till the paddle is returned.
We will have two gyms running 16 games total at one time as well as our main gym will be open as our team area with bleachers, tables and chairs for teams to hang out. We will be displaying the brackets and results in the main gym throughout the day. There will also be food available for purchase in our adjacent cafeteria.
Yes, you can be in two leagues. We will be playing our student and adult leagues first and then start the open league when both are finished. You will need to signup and pay separately for each league. We are offering the open so that families can play together and separately if they want.
In 2006, we lost an incredible teacher to cancer, Tom Schlegel. He would use the saying "Live your legacy" and he meant that we need to make sure everything we do will be something for others to cherish and remember. We feel that as we transition the Tom Schlegel 5K run to this new event we want to still ahve a piece of Tom represented as part of his legacy and we hope that your understand that your signing up will leave a legacy of hope for others.
We will be having games play by using the USA Pickleball Rules. One difference to note is that we will be using rally scoring and 10 minute games. You can find a copy of the USA Pickle rules here.
Pushcoin is our school district's secure online payment platform we use for all school events and purchases. If you don't have a pushcoin account with us in District #204, no worries, just make a pushcoin account and you will be able to sign up.
