| Sanctioned Tournament Almost Here!! |
Ball Machine |
| Alpine Washrooms |
Indoor Season School Play/Membership Changes |
| Volunteering Interest / Opportunities |
Alpine Play Statistics |
| Membership By Rating Level |
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Sanctioned Tournament - It's Almost Here!!!
We are looking forward to our next sanctioned tournament this coming weekend as follows:
August 15th to 17th: Three day sanctioned tournament starting at 12:30 pm on Friday.
You may view tournament details on Pickleball Brackets by clicking here.
You should note that the venue for this indoor tournament is Raise Athletics in St. Albert at the following address:
Raise Athletics: 9 Richardson Drive, St. Albert
If you have any questions about the tournament please direct them to our Tournament Director, Ken Dentzien by clicking here.
If you are not participating as a player or volunteer, feel free to come out to support your Club and cheer on your fellow members!
Ball Machine
Exciting News!
As a service to our members, the Club has purchased a Ball Machine that can be used by members during the remainder of the outdoor season at the Alpine courts. An e-mail will be going out to members shortly describing the process by which members may take advantage of this ball machine in their training.
In the meantime you may be asking - why use a pickleball machine? Here are some examples:
- This machine may allow you an opportunity to practice particular shots to improve your skills
- You may need help learning to return serves deep, do resets or make those critical third or fifth shot drops - using the ball machine can assist you in this process
- You can take advantage of our optional mentoring service when you rent our machine -- at no additional cost!
Stay tuned to learn more!
Alpine Washrooms
As noted in our last Newsletter, the Club is now paying for access to the lower level of the Alpine Clubhouse including the washrooms. Members have responded very positively to this development. In order to avoid daily garbage clean up by the City of St. Albert, the agreed upon arrangement is that no paper towels (only hand gel) are provided in these washrooms, which are only meant to be accessed by SAPC members during Club play sessions. Members are asked to use available outside garbage facilities to dispose of feminine products and other materials which should not be left in these washrooms. A special shout out to Judy Murray for all you do to keep the Alpine courts properly maintained (free of leaves and debris, etc.) including regular cleaning of the washrooms of the Club house to ensure everything is clean and in order - you are amazing and the members appreciate you so much!!! Also, thanks goes out to our Alpine captains for their daily walk-throughs of the bathrooms after their play sessions.
Indoor Season School Play / Membership Changes
A change in the policy used at the City level to manage clubs’ eligibility for the use of St. Albert school gyms now requires SAPC to curtail non-resident use of SAPC school gyms.
To continue using St. Albert school gymnasiums for some SAPC play, SAPC will distinguish between St. Albert residents and non-residents in its membership levels, effective Oct 1 2025.
There is considerable benefit to taking out or renewing a 2026 membership by December 31, 2025, as there is a price increase in Adult memberships as of January 1, 2026. Please join or renew by December 31!
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Membership Level
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Membership Year
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When Membership Sold/Purchased
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Fee w/ GST
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Fee before GST
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Adult-General
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2025
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Oct 2024-Sep 2025
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60.00
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57.14
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Youth
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2025
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Oct 2024-Sep 2025
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14.00
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13.33
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Adult St. Albert Resident (2)
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2026 (1)
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Oct 2025-Dec 2025
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62.00
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59.05
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Adult Non-Resident (3)
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2026
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Oct 2025-Dec 2025
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62.00
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59.05
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Adult St. Albert Resident
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2026
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Jan 2026-Sep 2026
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70.00
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66.67
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Adult Non-Resident
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2026
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Jan 2026-Sep 2026
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70.00
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66.67
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Youth St. Albert Resident
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2026
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Oct 2025-Sep 2026
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14.00
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13.33
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Youth Non-Resident
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2026
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Oct 2025-Sep 2026
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14.00
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13.33
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(1) 2026 memberships are valid to December 31, 2026.
(2) St. Albert Residents are eligible to play in SAPC-organized play in St. Albert schools and other venues (4).
(3) Non-Residents eligible to play in SAPC-organized play at other venues (4).
(4) Other venues include Alpine courts, Red Willow Community Church, and various private facilities (Raise Athletics, YEG, The Pickleball Centre, One Possession Academy).
Please Note:
To implement the changes to our SAPC membership levels -
In keeping with past practice and to be consistent with Pickleball Canada membership sales, new SAPC membership sales and 2026 membership renewals will be available starting October 1, 2025. New memberships purchased on or after that date will be valid to the end of 2026.
Volunteering Interest and Opportunities
Mentoring
We need a volunteer to take over the task of finding mentors and assigning them to the mentoring sessions. If you are interested, please contact Nicole Currie by clicking this link and she will provide information and training.
Membership Profiles
We would ask all members to update their profiles to document their current interest in volunteer roles for the Club. It is only through the work of volunteers that our Club can operate, so we ask all members to take this seriously. When we need volunteers in certain roles or capacities is this database of profile information that we look to first in order to recruit volunteers for those open positions.
Alpine Play Statistics
Please be advised of the following attendance at Club-organized play sessions at the outdoor Alpine courts in the month of July:
Rating Level Number of Attendees
2.5 226
3.0 221
3.5 406
3.5 Women 133
3.5 Men 149
3.5+ 128
4.0+ 227
All Play 315
Partner Play 310
DUPR Play 259
TOTAL 2,374
June Total 2,139
May Total 1,925
Club Membership Statistics
We would assume that virtually all members who have interest in renewing their SAPC membership have done so by now. Our membership currently tops 900 members! If you haven't already registered, please click here for instructions on how to complete your renewal process.
A breakdown of our July membership by rating level follows below (with comparatives for the previous month):
June/25 July/25 (Current) Inc/(Dec)
No Rating 274 286 12
2.5 Rating 44 44 -
3.0 Rating 149 148 (1)
3.5 Rating 246 249 3
4.0 Rating 136 137 1
4.5+ Rating 43 42 (1)
Total Members 892 906 14
Until next time keep your paddle up!