Viking Pickleball

🏆 2026 March Madness Champions: Englewood Sports Complex 👏 👏

👭 Women’s Doubles Champions: Englewood Sports Complex

👬 Men’s Doubles Champions: Englewood Sports Complex

👫 Mixed Doubles Champions:
Englewood Sports Complex

🧹 🧹 🧹 Team ESC swept the Event 🧹 🧹 🧹

Huge Thanks to the Captains from each Club 👇
🔹Team Englewood Sports Complex (Sally Lutz/Tom Butler/Barb Mills/Michele Fitzgerald)
🔹Team West Villages (Deb Deacon/Nancy Chow/Greg Schmalz)
🔹Team Viking Pickleball (Sarah Saari/John Marando)

🙏 Huge thanks to our volunteers for the event: Deb Less, Dolores & John Marando, Andrea Duwa, Lynn Duffy, Diane Ewing, Pam Hayes, Linda Lehman, and so many more who helped out)

❤️ Special Thanks for my wife, Misty Jo Giffen for helping out and nursing me back to health over the weekend 🤒

Lastly, Thanks to our sponsors:

🏡 Erik Dunigan Realtor-The Dunigan Group-The Dunigan Group
👨‍⚕️ Your Place Physical Therapy-Dr. Frank Allen
🏓 Total Performance Pickleball-All Your Pickleball Needs
👩‍⚕️ BlissDermatology
🏥 Amerilife
💆‍♀️ Sierra Massage
🏈End Zone Sports Bar & Grill

✨Saturday March Madness Gender Doubles has concluded and we are excited to roll into Sunday’s Mixed Doubles Events:

👭Women’s Doubles Champions goes to Team Englewood Sports Complex 👏 👏
Englewood: 1,041 points
Viking: 1,033 points
West Villages: 997 points

👬 Men’s Doubles Champions also goes to Team Englewood Sports Complex 👏 👏
Englewood: 1,065 points
West Villages: 983 points
Viking: 942 points

🏆 Race to the Overall Club Championship:
Englewood: 129 Wins
Viking: 120 Wins
West Villages: 117 Wins

Award Ceremony will be held around 3pm today! Come out and cheer your club on; do not miss out on the action!
Englewood Sport Complex

2026 March Madness Club Vs Club Championship!! 🏆

Who will be crowned The Premier Pickleball Club in our area? 👑

March 21st & 22nd @ Englewood Sports Complex 📍

3 Clubs:
🔹Team Viking Pickleball
◽️Team Englewood Sports Complex
🔸Team West Villages

Over 300 Players competing against other clubs in match-play format ⚔️

🗣️Encourage fans to come out to support and cheer your club on 👏👏

To View Team Rosters & Start Times: www.vikingpickleball.com >tournaments

🙏We would like to thank our sponsors for their support:

🔹Erik Dunigan Realtor Group
🔹Bliss Dermatology
🔹Your Place Physical Therapy
🔹Total Performance Pickleball
🔹Sierra Body Worx
🔹Amerilife
🔹The Endzone
🔹Franklin Pickleball

💥 Week #5 Results for The Road to The Cup Community vs Community League 🏆

2 more weeks to go plus we will utilize the rain back up week 3/25 & 3/27 ☔️

April 1st Culimination Day 🏆

•Grand Palm•Islandwalk•Renaissance• Plantation•Beachwalk•Sarasota National•Wellen Park Country Club•

Last Tournament of the 2026 Season… warm up for The USOPEN 👇

https://pickleballtournaments.com/tournaments/8cd2db91-3207-473d-829a-2b73e1d82c24

💥 Week #4 of The Road to The Cup Community vs Community League 🏆

•Grand Palm•Islandwalk•Renaissance• Plantation•Beachwalk•Sarasota National•Wellen Park Country Club•

💘 2026 Viking Pickleball Cupid Classic 📸’s

Over 100 players over two days competed in this special event!

Thanks to our Viking Pickleball Team: Doreen Zierer, Andrea Kos Duwa &
Coach John Marando for helping to run the matches.

Special thanks to our sponsors as always:

🧑‍⚕️ Dr Frank Allen Your Place Physical Therapy
🏡 Erik Dunigan Realtor-The Dunigan Group
🏓 Tim Peckham Total Performance Pickleball

💘 Cupid Classic 2/14 & 2/15 💘

🏆 Road to The Cup Week #1 Gender Doubles Results and Community Total Wins👇 Islandwalk leads by only 2 wins after 12 events‼️

Week #2 BYE: Islandwalk

🏆 Road to the Cup: Community vs Community League kicked off yesterday with Mixed Doubles ‼️ Islandwalk leads to way after the first day. Mens and Women’s Doubles is Friday.

🔹7 weeks of nonstop action; who will come out on top??!!

🔹2025 Champions: Grand Palm