Best of 2024: Seattle's friendly Green Lake pickleball courts
Seattle Now
KUOW News and Information
4.7 • 670 Ratings
🗓️ 27 December 2024
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
We’re rounding out a week of re-airing our favorite episodes of the year, and somehow just couldn’t go without putting in some pickleball.
Pickleball continues to be both popular and controversial in Seattle.
This episode we're returning to the Green Lake pickleball courts which were officially declared a pickleball hub by Seattle in June.
And the upwards of 100 diehard fans would agree, as they meet regularly to dink pickleballs back and forth.
Yes, that’s the technical term.
But, not everyone is a fan of the pickleball takeover.
Producer Matt Martin checked it out last summer.
It may no longer be ideal pickleball weather, but you can reminisce about summer sun as Matt takes us back to August at Green Lake.
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| 0:00.0 | These days, there's so much news. |
| 0:01.8 | It can be hard to keep up with what it all means for you, your family, and your community. |
| 0:06.4 | The Consider This Podcast from NPR features our award-winning journalism. |
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| 0:22.3 | Listen to the Consider This podcast from NPR. |
| 0:26.2 | Hey, good morning. I'm Paige Browning. It's Friday. This is Seattle now. We're rounding out a week |
| 0:33.4 | of re-airing our favorite episodes of the year and somehow just couldn't go without putting in some pickleball. |
| 0:40.3 | Pickleball continues to be popular and controversial in Seattle. |
| 0:45.3 | Producer Matt Martin saw that firsthand last month at a standing room-only community meeting |
| 0:50.3 | about whether to open new courts in Magnus and Park. Bird lovers are concerned about how noise would affect the over 100 species in the park's wetlands, |
| 1:00.0 | birders like Joshua Morris with Birds Connect Seattle. |
| 1:04.0 | Just the opportunity to walk outside in a natural setting, |
| 1:07.0 | away from the stress of urban noise, urban environment. |
| 1:11.6 | That is something that we need to protect. |
| 1:14.6 | On the other side, we're pickleball lovers eager to see up to 24 courts in the park by 2026, |
| 1:21.6 | like Frank Chaponi, the president of Seattle Metro Pickleball Association. |
| 1:26.6 | We have seen an incredible boom in the Seattle area of pickleball. |
| 1:32.3 | People wanted to play pickleball, just learning this sport, wanting to get out. |
| 1:36.3 | We have not matched that boom in popularity with resources that accommodate that. |
| 1:42.3 | That debate is ongoing, but today's story is about Green Lake Pickleball, |
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