The colour city has a new sport that is about to surge and the Orange PCYC on Friday, May 17 is one place to learn all about it. 

Pickleball is Australia’s newest sports craze and Orange PCYC is hosting a seven-week Friday-night competition starting on Friday, May 24 at the PCYC. 

Players must register by 8pm tomorrow (Friday, May 17) and the perfect way to do so is by attending the PCYC’s information and rules evening that night from 6pm. 

Pickleball is more accessible for seniors and the combination of “ping pong, badminton and tennis” played on a smaller court is “going nuts” across the country. 

To learn more, people can attend on the night and even see visual demonstrations. 

Orange PCYC Club Manager Jaime Wenban is certainly excited to be putting on the new competition.

“It’s all very new to us here … a new sport that we are looking forward to running,” Ms Wenban. 

“It’s a really good little sport that we can’t wait to run.” 

The seven-week pickleball competition costs $70.00, while people can also try social pickleball on Wednesday mornings (9.30am to 11.30am) and Friday afternoons (4pm to 6pm) for $8 a session. 

Offering pickleball is just part of PCYC’s mission to keep young people (and those young at heart) active. 

Ms Wenban said it is important to keep active.

“Enjoying something that you do in life, be it going to the gym, taking the dog for a walk or playing a sport … just keeping moving,” she said. 

With an enthusiastic staff of 14 (including casuals for school holiday programs), the PCYC offers a multitude of programs. 

On Wednesday mornings, Orange PCYC provides a program called Fit for Life, which provides

young people a chance to play a sport and have breakfast before getting a lift to school. 

A new boxing space is currently being set up, including a boxing ring. PCYC Orange will be starting a

competitive boxing program in the coming months.

Various gym and group fitness classes are all available in the direct debit membership which is $22 a fortnight. 

PCYC Orange has been supporting the community since 1994. 

For more information on Orange PCYC, or to find out about pickleball, please call 6360 2249.