Club Membership

Joining Yakima Pickleball Club is a great way to support our sport and help us have a voice with our local city governments. The Club’s primary goal is to advocate for improvement of existing facilities, addition of more courts, and working with local businesses to help them understand the value of Pickleball in our community.

Your membership dollars are not the most important aspect of your membership. We are hoping to find people willing to work along side our board members and find opportunities to make Pickleball visible to our local governments. If they see the number of people playing they may budget for courts in new parks or see the value in conversion of less utilized courts into Pickleball courts. Together we can build a future that allows Pickleball to grow in our community and have enough courts that everyone who wants to play can come and play.

Global Pickleball Network (GPN) is our membership service.

Click here to join Yakima Pickleball Club on the GPN system.

The main purpose of the Yakima Pickleball Club is to promote the sport in our community. Having a unified voice helps us to get new places to play and to organize tournaments. We also save funds from your dues to maintain the Franklin Parks courts. We plan to repaint the courts every 3-4 years and the paint alone costs $6,000. The city has limited funds available, so it seems to be up to us.

But there are other benefits to membership:

• We will have reserved times at the Franklin Park courts for organized play. Club members and guests will all be invited to play in various fun formats.
• Communications on times to play and other fun events.
• We hope to have at least one annual tournament and members receive a discount on registration and priority early registration time.
• Invitation to camps and clinics, from beginner to advanced.
• Discounts on pickleball gear from our sponsors.

Membership cost is only $45 per year.

Why is a membership dues required? The Yakima Pickleball Club is a 501(c)7 not-for-profit club and there are costs associated with that. There are costs associated with our website and communication software and we also will use any excess funds for organizing events such as clinics or social events and saving for court maintenance.