Capital Area Pickleball Association
Serving Dane County Wisconsin

CAPA received permission to post the PowerPoint presentation presented by staff from the Stoughton Health Physical Therapy program. It provides information on the most common injuries among pickleball players and provides suggested exercises to minimize your risk of injury. 

Click here to see the presentation.

CAPA has negotiated a deal with Franklin to allow us to make bulk purchases of Franklin X-40 pickleballs for 20% below their wholesale price and less than half of their retail price.

We’re sharing the benefit of this pricing with all of our members. We have set up a system whereby CAPA members can volunteer to act as Resellers for our members by buying in bulk at our cost and then selling balls at CAPA member pricing as follows:

3 pickleballs for $6, 6 pickleballs for $10, and 13 pickleballs for $20

Anyone interested in buying balls in bulk (100 or more) for personal use or to become a Reseller should contact Kevin by email at kevinjmcpherson@gmail.com or by text 1-608-358-3776 to get on the Bulk Buyer list. Bulk orders will be made every couple of months or as demand warrants. Additional Resellers are especially needed to cover SE Dane County, Central and East Side of Madison and Sun Prairie.

Members who are interested in buying balls from our Resellers should contact one who sells in your area. Here are the Resellers, their contact information, geographies, and the payment methods they accept.

Kevin McPherson, kevinjmcpherson@gmail.com or text 1-608-358-3776, West Madison and Middleton, accepts Cash, Check or Venmo.

Rico Goedjen, rg53705@gmail.com or text 1-608-358-7161, West Madison and Middleton, accepts Cash or Check.

Ryan Kutz, text 1-608-445-4404, Sun Prairie, Sauk, Waunakee and PPC, accepts Cash, PayPal or Venmo.

Chris Pfahler, cpfahler57@gmail.com, Mt Horeb, Verona, Fitchburg and Oregon, accepts Cash, Check or Venmo.

Frank Durham, bfamdurham@yahoo.com text or call 608-630-0080, West Middleton, Cross Plains and Western Dane County, accepts Cash, Check or Venmo.

Laurie Schmidt, lauriesch@yahoo.com or text 608-335-2630, West Madison and Monona, accepts Cash, Check or Venmo.

Kathy Kopp, badgerfan323@yahoo.com or text 608/228-9222, East Madison, Monona and McFarland, accepts Cash or Venmo.

Also, you may be able to buy balls from the following Resellers who are limiting sales to their play groups: Jill Jorstad, Jim Marckesano, and Bo Palenske.

Let us know if you have questions about this program.

Your CAPA Board of Directors

The USA Pickleball 2024 Rulebook is available online.

Check out the latest Newsletter with great articles, tips, news and photos!!!

CAPA introduces a new benefit for CAPA members. We have negotiated a deal with Franklin to allow us to make bulk purchases of Franklin X-40 pickleballs for 20% below their wholesale price and less than half of their retail price.

We look forward to sharing the benefit of this pricing with all of our members. To do that, we have set up a system whereby CAPA members can volunteer to act as Resellers for our membership by buying in bulk at our cost and then selling balls at CAPA member pricing as follows:

3 pickleballs for $6

6 pickleballs for $10

13 pickleballs for $20

Anyone interested in buying balls in bulk (100 or more) for personal use or to become a Reseller should contact Kevin by email at kevinjmcpherson@gmail.com or by text 1-608-358-3776 to get on the Bulk Buyer list. Bulk orders will be made every couple of months or as demand warrants. Additional Resellers are especially needed to cover SE Dane County, Central and East Side Madison.

Members who are interested in buying balls from our Resellers should contact one who sells in your area. Here are the Resellers, their contact information, geographies, the quantities of pickleballs they sell and the payment method they accept.

Tim Duket, tim.duket@gmail.com or text 1-608-287-4639, West Madison, 13 pickleballs only, cash.

Kevin McPherson, kevinjmcpherson@gmail.com or text 1-608-358-3776, West Madison and Middleton, 3,6, or 13 pickleballs, will accept Cash or Check.

Rico Goedjen, rg53705@gmail.com or text 1-608-358-7161, West Madison and Middleton, 3,6 or 13 pickleballs, will accept Cash or Check.

Ryan Kutz, text 1-608-445-4404, Sun Prairie, Sauk, Waunakee and PPC, 3,6 or 13 pickleballs, will accept Cash, PayPal or Venmo.

Chris Pfahler, cpfahler57@gmail.com, Mt Horeb, Verona, Fitchburg and Oregon, 3,6 or 13 pickleballs, will accept Cash or Check.

Also, you may be able to buy balls from the following Resellers who are limiting sales to their play groups: Jill Jorstad, Jim Marckesano, and Bo Palenske.

Let us know if you have questions about this program and we appreciate your patience as we get it up and running.

Your CAPA Board of Directors

CAPA EVENTS FOR 2023

The 2023 spring and summer have been busy with CAPA sponsored organized play.  There were 151 organized events with about 2,556 participants.  This number does not include the 17 leagues that were held in different locations from May – October.  We can add 272 league participants for a grand total of 2,828.  Watch for the newsletter coming out soon for more details of the organized events that were offered.

DUPR updated their information today - August 9, 2023. Check out the What Are DUPR Player Ratings webpage for more information. Click here to go to that page: What Are DUPR Player Ratings.

Please add the dates to your 2024 Calendar of Pickleball Events. Sun Prairie will again be hosting the 2nd Annual Fun Prairie Pickleball Open Tournament. New this year will be two age divisions - 59 and under and 60 and over. The tournament will be held on Friday June 7 through Sunday June 9. 

Currently we plan on the following levels and events:

Levels - 3.0 - 3.49, 3.50 -3.99, 4.0 - 4.49, 4.5 + 

Events - Mixed, Men, Women

The committee is seeking individuals who would be willing to lead and direct the 4.0 - 4.49 and 4.5+ levels. If you are interested contact Mick Viney at maviney@gmail.com.

Catch up on what is happening in the CAPA world by reading the latest CAPA June 2023 Newsletter.

CAPA is moving to a new membership management system and website. CAPA membership has reached almost 1,000 and our present system needs updating to make managing your profile easier for you. 

IMPORTANT INFORMATION YOU NEED TO KNOW!

As of today May 15th, all new and renewed memberships are on hold until June 1^st.  This needs to be done so the team can transfer the membership list from the old membership system to the new. Because we receive new members daily, we are concerned that we would miss a member.

There will be a new membership rate of $15 per year.  CAPA membership is a bargain as a majority of pickleball groups have membership fees of $20 - $30. 

With the new system memberships will go for one calendar year from the day you become a member.  As opposed to the old system where memberships ran from September 1^st to August 31^st.  To make this transition all members who have joined since January 1, 2023, would have their membership renewal dueone year from the actual date you joined CAPA.Members who joined prior to December 31st, 2022, will have their membership go through August 31, 2023. Whenever you renew, your new membership term will be one calendar year from the date of your renewal.

The old CAPA Website will go down on Saturday May 28th and the new site will be back up on June 1st.  You will receive an email when the website is back up.  At that time, you will be invited to sign-in to the new website and your own personal membership account, create your own password and update your member profile and privacy settings.

You will still be receiving all event sign ups as that is not affected by this membership system and website transition.  

If you have any questions, please contact CAPA at pickleball@capareapb.com.

Thank you for your patience and continued support of CAPA!  

The CAPA Board

Rico Goedjen      Shelley Reynolds, 

Jerome Klein      Joanne Crapisi

Mike Barone      Karen Jerg

Mark Blitz           Mick Viney

Heidi Lawton