How Pickleball Became So Famous with Black People in Charlotte
There’s a new sporting craze that’s going crazy across the country called pickleball and I understand why it is. I’ve been playing pickleball for a little over a month now and the game is exciting. Once you get an understanding of the basic rules then the game will become easy to you. I spoke before about how many big businesses and millionaires are investing lots of money and by lots I mean millions of dollars into pickleball facilities across the country.
With me becoming so invested in pickleball I’ve realized that in Charlotte alone they have pickleball courts all over the city but they now have a black pickleball league that has become extremely popular in the city. The Black Pickleball League & Co. was founded in 2023. It started out as just an Instagram page just making black people aware of pickleball and where they can play. It has now turned into a 501(c)3 business with over 500 people attending their events now.
This organization was started because not a lot of African Americans played pickleball and this organization wanted them to become aware. There are over 36.5 million pickleball players and only 7.3 percent of them are black. According to a SIFA report in 2022. A lot of black communities didn’t know about the game and lacked the resources to participate in the sport.
You can find where the black pickleball league meets to play by going to their website https://www.blackpickleball.org