Anyone is welcome to join the Die Hard Pickleballerz Club, but most are Polynesians living on Salt Lake City’s west side. When sunnier temperatures emerge they play outside. But they venture far away from home.
Pickleball player Parth Gandhi stretches out for a return while playing at the Fairmont Park courts in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, April 11, 2023.For Okie Heimuli, it was a natural progression from playing tennis as he turned older and that court became too big for him to chase down balls.
Glendale area residents Ifa Motuliki, right, and Okie Heimuli, current president of the Salt Lake City Die Hard Pickleballers, talk about the popularity of the sport as well as the challenge of not having courts on the west side, at the Fairmont Park courts on Tuesday, April 11, 2023. But for the pickleball club, the lines are confusing, the net is higher, and the ball travels farther away in a larger space, making it tougher to fetch.
The city acknowledges that the blended lines aren’t ideal for either tennis or pickleball players, planner Kat Maus said. But that may change in the future. The 71-year-old has a hard-to-miss laugh when he rushes to hit the plastic ball. And when it comes to advocating for the sport’s presence on the west side, his is one of the loudest voices.
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