Every month we get players nominated from all over the world and you can always tell when a nominee has really made a great impact on our sport.
This month’s award winner lives in the community of Greenwood Indiana and has been bringing new players to the courts for years. Linda has helped start pickleball at the Community Life Center, The Baxter YMCA, the Martainsville YMCA, and The Gathering Place. She worked with Garfield Park on their pickleball program, and many others. She has also worked with the Greenwood parks Dept on lining the outdoor tennis courts for pickleball and headed up tournament to raise money to cure cancer.
According to the people we met, Linda has helped literally hundreds of people pick up a paddle for the first time, but the one consistent message we heard was that Linda is a person who reaches out and touches people in so many positive ways.
One nominator said it best when she wrote to us and said, “You will never meet a more God loving, people loving, Pickleball loving woman. Linda is where it all began for so many of us.”
Please help us congratulate our October 2016 Pickleball Rocks Player of the Month, Linda Calvano.
Many congrats on a job well done on many levels! May God bless you and keep you and make His face shine upon you. You are such a blessing to us and to think we may never have met if it wasn’t for Pickleball.
My husband and I met Linda about 15 months ago. We were newbies to Pickleball but that wasn’t a problem for Linda. She happily shared her knowledge and the rules of the game and encouraged us every time we came to play. We’re so happy to have been in the audience when she was awarded player of the month. A well deserved honor.