Pickleball Nation Podcast

This is the latest Pickleball Nation's episode that features an interview with two board members of the PG Pickleball club, Jennifer Miller, and Trudy Johnson.

In this podcast, Pickleball Nation features a video that highlighted the PG Pickleball Club's co-sponsored with The City of Bowie Gymnasium, pickleball tournament that took place on April 5th, 2024. The host then interviewed the president, Deryck Chase and his vice president, Norma Taylor about the upcoming club elections in the fall of this year

Robert "Duke" Nelligan is truly a "Big Wig," in the world of gymnastics. Duke has coached and led teams in gymnastics that had participated in the Olympics and World Championships Games. As a gifted athlete in multiple sports, Duke has been willing to share this knowledge with kids of all ages! After learning the game of Pickleball and teaching many in the game, Duke is now teaching Pickleball to "physically challenged" individuals.

In this new episode of Pickleball Nation the hosts introduce a new “Pondering Pickleball,” video.  Next, the hosts interviewed the great athlete Hayward Corley.  Hayward talks about growing up in Washington DC where he became good at playing sports throughout his time in public school.  This eventually led him to playing football and running track at Howard University where he also met his wife.  Hayward talks about his work life and raising a family of athletes.  

Mike Lonergan discusses the first Pickleball tournament that is being sponsored by the City of Bowie Gymnasium and the P.G. Pickleball Club. Shari Sternberg introduces a new segment called, "Pondering Pickleball."

In this latest Pickleball Nation Podcast the hosts discuss several upcoming tournaments which include the first ever inaugural Pickleball tournament being sponsored by and held at The City of Bowie Gymnasium.  They also highlight a weekend warriors’ segment.  The featured guest is Jane Martin who was a trailblazer and game changer in women’s college basketball and softball.  Jane has since transferred her talents to playing Pickleball.

Pickleball Nation's hosts interview Player/Coach Jerry Butler who shares his journey from tennis into Pickleball. Jerry's mastery of the game has garnered him over forty medals. Now he talks about teaching others how to play the game.

Shari will talk about her recent trip to a resort on Punta Cana.  She will also talk about how she and the group she was traveling with called, “Carpe Dinkum”, left the resort to donate sports equipment to a middle school called Calasanz.

This is the first episode of the brand-new podcast called Pickleball Nation. The featured guests are Norma Taylor and Trudy Johnson, who are two of the founding members of the P.G. Pickleball. In this episode we are also given a brief history about the club and its mission to support and promote Pickleball throughout Prince George's County Maryland.