Pickleball Lessons
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The Milford Recreation Department is offering Pickleball Lessons for the 2024 season! Pickleball is one of the fastest growing sports in the country and we are pleased to offer lessons from our certified instructor, Rudy Meredith.
We will be offering multiple types of lessons. We will be offering a beginner lessons, and advanced beginner supervised play. Each lesson will be 1 hour long with a max of 16 people per group. Lessons will last 4 weeks for a total of 8 lessons per session.
For the first time, we will also be offering an Intermediate and Advanced Beginner Practice and Play. These sessions will be once a week for 4 weeks.
*The instructor reserves the right to move you if you are not at the skill level for the class you signed up for.
*You must bring your own Pickleball Paddle
Instructor
Rudy Meredith has certification in IPTPA International Pickleball Teaching Professional Association Levels 1 + 2.
He also has an extremely decorated Pickleball Playing career which includes:
-2019 USAPA Mid-Atlantic Regional Mixed Doubles and Singles Championship
-2019 USAPA Atlantic Regional Mixed Doubles and Singles Championship
-2020 Pictona Fall Open Mixed Doubles and Men's Doubles Bronze Medalist
-2020 USA Pickleball Mid-Atlantic Regional Champion- Singles Gold Medalist, Men's Doubles Silver Medalist
-2021 Atlanta Pickleball Open Singles Champion
-2021 National Senior Game Qualifier
-2021 Minto US Open Singles Champion
Along with many other accomplishments.
Lesson Description
Beginners- (New to the Game, have not really played before)
The beginners lesson will focus on basic fundamentals of Pickleball. The instructor will focus on such things as the rules, how to keep score, how to serve, how to return a serve and other basic strokes. After the session, the participant should have a good basic understanding of how to play Pickleball!
Advanced Beginner Supervised Play (Less than 1 year of playing experience)
You will play with individuals of the same skill level. Rudy will monitor matches and set up schedules along with rankings for players. He will also coach during matches as well.
Intermediate Supervised Play ( 1+ year of playing experience )
You will play with individuals of the same skill level. Rudy will monitor matches and set up schedules along with rankings for players. He will also coach during matches as well.
Advanced Intermediate- Knows the game extremely well and competes at a high level.
Practice and Play
Practice and Play is a new program we are offering where Rudy will practice/run drills with you for the first 30 minutes and then you will apply what you have learned in a match setting for the final hour.
Here are the Practice and Play Sessions:
Beginners Monday Night Practice and Play- 5pm-6pm
Advanced Beginner Monday Night Practice and Play- 6pm-7:30pm
Advanced Beginners Thursday Night Practice and Play 5pm-6:30pm
Intermediate Thursday Night Practice and Play- 6:30pm-8pm
*Please sign up for the class of your ability level. Rudy reserves the right to move you to the appropriate level class*
Registration Information
Session I April 22nd-May 16th (May 20th-May 23rd MAKE UP WEEK)
Session II May 28th-June 24th
Session III July 22nd-August 15th
Session IV September 9th-October 3rd
Session V October 7th-October 31st
For more information, please call Mike Dooling at 203-783-3386 or email at
mdooling@milfordct.gov
Skill Assessment!!
On the following dates, 10/26 & 11/2 Rudy will be running a skills assessment to determine what level you should be playing at going forward!
The assessments will be 1 1/2 hours and take place at the Eisenhower Pickleball Courts.
Here is the schedule:
Saturday 10/26
2pm-3:30pm Beginners (2.0-2.5)
3:30pm-5pm Advance Beginners (2.5-3.0)
Saturday 11/2
2pm-3:30pm Intermediate (3.0-3.5)
3:30pm-5pm Advanced Intermediate (3.5-4.0)
*Sign up for the skill level you think you are
Cancellation Information & Make-Ups
Cancellation information will be posted on at
MilfordRecreation.com and a notification will be sent out via email. Please make sure you are opted in to emails on your account.
Make ups will be made at the end of the session. The Recreation Department reserves the right to schedule a make-up time that is best for the department.
Make-up sessions are for classes cancelled by the Recreation Department not classes missed by the participant.