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Twelve Year Old Anna Leigh Waters Travels Coast-To-Coast Playing Professional Pickleball With Her Mother
INDIAN WELLS, CA, October 21, 2019 - This year at the Margaritaville USA Pickleball National Championships, November 2-10, 2019, that is being held for the second year at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden in Indian Wells, California, twelve-year-old Anna Leigh Waters (#AL) will be playing in the Women’s Professional bracket with her mother, Leigh Waters.
In August, the dynamic mother/daughter duo, sponsored by leading paddle company Paddletek, qualified for the eleventh annual USA Pickleball Association (USAPA) National tournament by winning a gold medal at the Tournament Of Champions (TOC) in Brigham City, Utah, in the Women’s Doubles Open against the top Pickleball players in the world without losing a match.
2019 Team Waters Highlight Point (1+ minute)
Video clip - 68 shot rally during the Texas Open Women’s Doubles Pro Gold Medal Match between the top female Pickleball players in the world: Simone Jardim and Lucy Kovalova
What is your experience to be able to use Pickleball as a way for you guys to strengthen your relationship and spend time together?
Leigh: It's really cool because I support her in soccer and that is just her. But, this is together and we are sharing every moment and my mother travels with us everywhere and it is just memories that we will just never forget!
Anna Leigh: I agree. “I love playing with my Mom because she is a great player, she gives me a lot of confidence, and she calms my nerves when she can sense that it is affecting my play. Because we are mother and daughter, we can anticipate each other’s shots and we move together very well. Winning a major at TOC was awesome, but the best part about it was winning it with my Mom.” (USAPA - Players To Watch At The 2019 Margaritaville USA Pickleball National Championships)
The multi-talented eighth grader shared her professional Pickleball story online with the International Virtual Learning Academy. In her essay, the Delray Beach, Florida resident wrote:
This year I am traveling to Georgia, California, Utah, Texas, Kansas, Nevada, Michigan, and Illinois for pickleball tournaments. I am also playing in some tournaments in Florida. Hopefully I’ll come home with a few gold medals! I have met many new friends in this sport. Since I am one of the younger players, I have a lot of friends who are in their twenties through eighties.
I don’t just play pickleball! I also play competitive Gold level U14 soccer. This summer, I am going to Spain representing the United States as we play other countries in the Danone Cup. I am so excited and can’t wait for the experience!
Playing pickleball has changed my life for the better, and I am so thankful that I can play at such a high level and succeed!
What Is Pickleball?
Pickleball is a multi-generational family paddle sport created in 1965 on Bainbridge Island, WA for all skill levels that combines elements of tennis, badminton and ping-pong. (USAPA)
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