{"id":52563,"date":"2023-07-13T09:49:59","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T13:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=52563"},"modified":"2023-07-13T09:50:00","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T13:50:00","slug":"ymca-announces-opening-of-pickleball-center-in-downingtown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=52563","title":{"rendered":"YMCA announces opening of pickleball center in Downingtown"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_18272\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18272\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18272\" src=\"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/2023-PBC-Downingtown-Pickleball-Center-Players.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-18272\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Players hit the courts at the newly-opened YMCA Pickleball Center at Downingtown.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>YMCA Pickleball Center at Downingtown, operated\u00a0by the YMCA of Greater Brandywine (YGBW),\u00a0opened its doors earlier this month. The brand-new facility featuring nine indoor courts is already making history as the first YMCA facility in the country devoted to pickleball.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are thrilled to bring this type of facility\u00a0\u2013 and a piece of YMCA history\u00a0\u2013 to\u00a0Chester County\u00a0residents,\u201d shares Jackie Canan, Senior Director of Pickleball for YGBW. \u201cWe\u2019ve seen incredible demand for open play time across our branches over the past two years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the opening of Pickleball Center, YGBW operated 42 pickleball courts at seven branches across Chester County.\u00a0The opening of Pickleball Center brings their\u00a0court tally to over 50. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe YMCA has become the home for pickleball in Chester County,\u201d continues Canan.\u00a0\u201cWith more than 50 courts and counting, we\u2019re excited\u00a0to welcome more players to this fun and engaging sport.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To celebrate the opening of this new facility, the YMCA is offering a number of free introductory pickleball clinics through July 31 at Pickleball Center at Downingtown.\u00a0The clinics are free for members and non-members,\u00a0alike.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you are at all curious about the sport of pickleball, now is the time to give it a try,\u201d comments Shawn Ganow, Director of\u00a0YMCA Pickleball Center\u00a0at Downingtown.\u00a0 \u201cI love introducing people to the sport\u00a0\u2013 and to the pickleball community.\u00a0With pickleball, you have countless new friends the instant you step onto the court,\u201d continues Ganow. \u201cI hope to meet many new players this month on the courts of Pickleball Center.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To register for a free introductory pickleball clinic: <a href=\"https:\/\/ymcagbw.org\/programs\/sports\/pickleball\/pickleball-clinics\/intro-pickleball-clinic?location=1007002\">https:\/\/ymcagbw.org\/programs\/sports\/pickleball\/pickleball-clinics\/intro-pickleball-clinic?location=1007002<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To learn more about YMCA Pickleball Center at Downingtown:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ymcagbw.org\/locations\/ymca-pickleball-center-downingtown\">https:\/\/ymcagbw.org\/locations\/ymca-pickleball-center-downingtown<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YMCA Pickleball Center at Downingtown, operated\u00a0by the YMCA of Greater Brandywine (YGBW),\u00a0opened its doors earlier this month. The brand-new facility featuring nine indoor courts is already making history as the first YMCA facility in the country devoted to pickleball. \u201cWe are thrilled to bring this type of facility\u00a0\u2013 and a piece of YMCA history\u00a0\u2013 to\u00a0Chester [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52562,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1387,13776,388],"class_list":["post-52563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-downingtown","tag-pickleball","tag-ymca"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52564,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52563\/revisions\/52564"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/52562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}