Ponder Pickleball

07/31/2025

This Saturday, August 2nd from 6p-9p at Pickleball Paddock, we will be hosting an open play for our Paddles to Parents: Adoption Fundraiser!

Players of all skill and experience levels are welcome! No need to bring a partner or even show up on time. Register on our website, link below, and come out to Pickleball Paddock anytime between 6p-9p! We have appreciated the community’s support of our events over the past year and would love to host you again this Saturday for this very special event!

If you cannot participate in our open play or would like to support our fundraiser in other ways, the donation link to our adoption fund is in the comments

Friends and family, welcome to Paddles to Parents! We apprecate y'all's support and are so excited to bring you into our pickleball community. Over the past few years, this has become one of our most enjoyed hobbies and it brings us joy to get the chance to share it with you. We will be meeting for....

06/17/2025

We are excited to announce details for our summer event, a 3-player team style tournament. Saturday will have Men’s and Women’s team draws, followed by a Sunday filled with Mixed team action (2 men, 1 woman). We have been experimenting with this format and it will not disappoint!

This event will bring a new format, along with a new goal. Our mission is still to bring Central KY high-level pickleball, but as we enter a new season of life, we are looking to lean on our community for support.

Marlee and I have been working our way through the adoption process and our family will soon, God willing, begin to grow. We have been asked by friends and family how we can be supported and this is our answer!

Whether it is through tournament participation, donations, or simply prayers, we appreciate everyone’s love and support. We are excited for this new season of life and are thankful for you, our community of players, friends and family.

We look forward to bringing this event to y’all and pickling with you soon!

ALL EVENTS ARE NOW LIVE ON OUR WEBSITE - ALONG WITH A LINK TO DONATE IF YOU FEEL COMPELLED TO DO SO!

https://ponderpickleballky.com

04/19/2025

Now that the dust has settled and we’ve caught our breath, we wanted to congratulate our winners and thank everyone for participating in our latest, and largest event ever! Last Saturday’s field totaled 84 players from 5 states, competing across 5 divisions for $6,000 in payouts. Competitive pickle was played, money was made and we truly appreciate everyone’s support of Ponder Pickleball.

Thank you to all of our event sponsors - Pickleball Paddock welcoming us into their beautiful facility to host our event! StretchLab was offering free warm up stretches and they were slam packed all day! CORE Pickleball supplied the best balls in the game, and Element 6 Pickleball was onsite helping run the event.

And of course, congratulations to all of our moneyball winners!

Open Division
1st - Camden Chaffin & Ross Whittaker
2nd - Ben McClarren & Phil Gruber
3rd - Kevin D**g & Wade Heerboth

Men’s 4.5-4.99
1st - Josh Garn & Cade Unruh
2nd - Liam Porterfield & Holden Beauregard
3rd - Paul Olliges & Paul Priest

Women’s Open
1st - Abby O’Kelley & Emma Van Her
2nd - Kelly Marie Bohnert & Spencer Moorman
3rd - Nikisha Patel & Becca Hsu

Men’s 4.5
1st - Tucker White & Isaac Clark
2nd - Bret Balka & Alex Sfyris
3rd - Ignacio Ardiles & Gregorio Bustingorri

Women’s 4.5
1st - Allison Weedman & Lisa Lee-Burns
2nd - Shelly Burnside & Nicole Simpson
3rd - Eva Mitchell & Wick Tran

Keep an eye out for our upcoming summer events and thanks again to everyone for participating and supporting Ponder Pickleball!

04/08/2025

Best nets in the game!!! Element 6 Pickleball
Quality build, custom colors, easy to tension, small business support with big business performance!

04/06/2025

Tournament week is here!!! We are looking forward to hosting our spring event this coming Saturday, April 12th at Pickleball Paddock.

Deadline to register is this Wednesday (April 9th) - sign ups will be closed at the end of the day Wednesday and final details will be sent to participants for all draws on Thursday.

Go get registered and come compete with us for our biggest event yet!

Below, you can find registration links and details on all of our upcoming events!

03/16/2025

Just under a month away from our biggest moneyball to date! Head over to our website to get registered before divisions fill up. Link to our website is in the comments or use the QR code below.

Saturday, April 12th @ Pickleball Paddock in Lexington, KY
$6,000 in total payouts, 5 divisions, 60 teams; will be a full day of high-level pickleball!

Big thanks to our tournament sponsors/partners and look forward to bringing this event to Central KY!

Pickleball Paddock
Element 6 Pickleball
StretchLab
DUPR
CORE Pickleball

03/01/2025

Thank you to everyone who has registered for our upcoming Spring Moneyball! April’s event is over 25% full with 6 weeks til game day. As promised, we picked two random players to receive free entry.

Congrats to Amanda Wiggins & Doug Abell, our free entry raffle winners!

02/18/2025

This past Saturday we wrapped up our Winter Indoor Moneyball Series and it did not disappoint! 4 events over the past four months of competitive pickleball at Pickleball Paddock beautiful indoor facility.

We want to thank everyone who has played in our events and to the Paddock for allowing us to host at their facility. We have been surprised by the community’s response to these events and are grateful for each and every player who chooses to spend a Saturday with us!

Congratulations to February’s moneyball winners!

Open Division: Jim Dobran and Conner Sherwood
Women’s Division: Laurel Cassidy and Karrie Bogue Thompson
Men’s Division: David Talbott and Aaron Cunningham

Our biggest event to date is coming up in April and registration is open! Visit our website to sign up and we will be posting with more details soon.

02/15/2025

We're back today at Pickleball Paddock for the fourth and final event in our Winter Indoor Moneyball Series. We have another full event today; 18 teams competing for $750 in payouts! Action is starting at 1pm and will be streaming live on our YouTube channel ().

Come out to Pickleball Paddock and catch the action live or watch on our YouTube at the link below.
https://www.youtube.com/live/lsQIufJxgxQ?si=QGk2f_3U7FsBzGbj

Open Division:
Paul Olliges & Tamm Omar
Marshall Eippert & Manuel Roman
Chris Bohnert & Ben Boesing
Alex Gauthier & Ruben Gonzales
Nick Zinn & Tristan Shaw
Conner Sherwood & Jim Dobran

Women's Division:
Karrie Thompson & Laurel Cassidy
Amanda Wiggins & Amy Longeway
Victoria Lydon & Sara Morgan
Dee Clark & Tao Tang
Mary Kate Hayden & Connie Ishii
Mariko Shimada & Theresa Wolfe

Men's Division:
Matthew Mullins & Jason Jackson
Joe Shannon & Richard Crowdy
Joseph Priest & Landon Snyder
David Talbott & Aaron Cunningham
Graham Stephenson & Zeke Friedeman
Jaron Moss & Tyler Woodke

01/13/2025

Did you miss this past weekend's event? Curious to know who won?

Along with live streaming our events over on YouTube (), we are posting recaps of each event to our website with scores, photos and a breakdown of the action. These articles are within the "Results" tab on our website, (www.ponderpickleballky.com).

Subscribe to our email list if you'd like to receive these recaps to your inbox and all other news around upcoming events!

https://ponderpickleballky.com/blogs/event-results

Ponder Pickleball

01/12/2025

We had a great group of players for yesterday’s third session of our Winter Indoor Moneyball Series at - 18 teams across three divisions and $750 in payouts!

Congrats to the winners of yesterday’s session:
Open Division - Nick Zinn & Tristan Shaw
Men’s Division - David Talbott & Zeke Friedeman
Women’s Division - Kelly Gant & Laura Schmidt

The Open division can be watched back on our YouTube channel.

We appreciate the pickleball community’s support of our events and are looking forward to February’s moneyball where we’ll wrap up our Winter Indoor series. Registration is open on our website (link is in our bio).