Posted Sept 30 2023: Pickleball Alberta (PA) has introduced a new controversial fee with  little notice to clubs and members.  SAPC encourages members to advise PA of their thoughts regarding this change and the way it has been managed.

SAPC is also considering how this may impact our organization and our coordinated membership management.  When a path forward has been determined by our club, we will resume our membership sales.  Until further notice, we advise members NOT to renew their pickleball memberships on any system.  A path forward will be identified, and membership sales will be resumed, before the expiry of current memberships on December 31, 2023.

SAPC welcomes youth members 12 years of age or older. See our youth membership web page for more details.

In an April 1 email to all members, Roger Hutlet, SAPC's Communications Director, announced the lifting of its freeze on club rating changes, and pointed members to these webpages for further details. All these pages can also be found under our Development menu.

• Skill Levels and Ratings
• DUPR
• SAPC DUPR Play FAQ

Our board would like to thank our Rating Committee members for considering how the club can and should continue some means of assessing play skills, and how to operationalize and implement the new methods chosen.

As these webpages note:

• current club ratings are grandfathered (still valid and in effect), and 
• there are three ways of either getting a new club rating or having that rating advanced. 

One of those ways is to get a DUPR -- a dynamic universal pickeball rating -- by recording games scores in the DUPR app or online at www.mydupr.com.

The club is starting to run DUPR play sessions immediately, as one way to get game scores into the DUPR app and start building your DUPR rating. For club-hosted DUPR sessions, the club will enter the scores for players.

In the initial DUPR sessions, priority will be given to accommodating members who have no rating and members who want a higher rating. By late spring or summer, the club will also offer sessions for those with a club rating who want a DUPR rating or more competitive play, but are not necessarily looking to advance their club rating.

Members can register for DUPR sessions by quickly responding to invitation emails sent to members eligible for that particular session, or by finding a DUPR play session in the Rating Session calendar, opening an event, and registering there.  Read the event description carefully, as these events have some new qualifications -- like having to join DUPR and join SAPC on DUPR.

Remember we're all volunteers here, and this is new territory for us and a lot of other clubs. Our processes and policies will continue to evolve as we learn more. Satisfying as many of your wishes for pickleball play as we can remains "job 1".

Do you want to know ...

... where we play?  Click on the top-level Play menu, then click on one of the location names to get an address and a Google map.

... about the color-coding and other features of our calendars? Click on the top-level Calendar menu.

... how our club works?  Click on the top-level Club Mgmt menu.