The rise of Marquette pickleball: from a few dozen people to national tournaments

Photo by Katarina Pljevaljcic The team culture continues to grow inside the Wellness + Helfaer Recreation Center. I was in my 6 th grade gym class when I first heard about pickleball. It looked like a median between tennis and ping-pong, so I thought it was just some off-brand game that my gym teacher made up. Eight years later, the game has grown at a record rate, and the pickleball club here at Marquette shows just that. Marquette’s pickleball club has rapidly grown in the past couple of years, both within the university as well as nationally. Last year, the…