Welcome to the St. Albert Pickleball Club (SAPC)Members: click the head and shoulders* icon in the top right corner to log-in and view your profile. After logging in, you will see items under the Members menu. Go to Members > Store to buy indoor play stickers. (*On a smartphone, this icon may be an arrow.) Wanting to renew?
Potential Members: Everyone 12 years of age or more are welcome! Press the Join button to learn how to use the automated signup and payment processes. See our Explore Joining menu to get your frequently asked questions (FAQs) answered or to sign up for a free beginner's lesson! Once you've joined our friendly club, you'll be able to log in to this site as a member. | Fee Summary - 2025You will first pay $25 and a small processing fee to join Pickleball Canada and Pickleball Alberta. Then:
These 2025 memberships are available online only, on or after October 1 2024, and will expire on December 31 2025. (This early membership purchase or renewal offer is only available to first time members and to renewing members. It is not available to lapsed members.) Our annual fee is non-refundable. Don't hesitate to join though -- pickleball is lots of fun, great exercise, and a wonderful opportunity to socialize and make new friends. Once you join as a member, you will have the opportunity, on this site, to buy a card of 20 stickers for $67 ($3.35 each). The cost for members to play at one of our drop-in indoor school venues is one sticker. See our Indoor Play article on our Play Types page for prices at other venues. There is no additional charge or stickers needed to play in most of our outdoor play. See also our FAQ under the Explore Joining menu for more details. |
SAPC Member TournamentLooking for our first tournament of 2025? Go here. Club Presents to City CouncilThe outdoor pickleball players of St. Albert have already outgrown the space at our Alpine and Larose courts. More outdoor courts are needed now. Your club has worked to inform our City and, in particular, our City Council, of this need for more courts. Our latest presentation to City Council, which was on October 15, 2024, may be seen at the link below. In this video, go to:
Thanks to the SAPC Facilities Team for all they are doing to help build our pickleball future in St. Albert. I don't want a rating - I just want to playWe know. So just go play. There are 250+ members in our club who have no rating, and we have play-times just for you. Pick any "All Play" or "2.5/Unrated Play" in our Alpine calendar (or in any of our school calendars during the indoor season). Then just drop in to any of those sessions and join in the paddle play -- no need to register in advance. You ask, "how do I know if it is 'drop-in' play?" Well, all our play is drop-in play unless it says something special like 'Partner Play', 'DUPR', or other registered play. And all our Alpine Courts drop-in play is at no extra charge. Just be prepared to show an up-to-date membership card. This card can be found in your membership profile, and may be printed or saved to your smart phone. DUPR ReliabilityAs of July 4, 2024, SAPC requires players to have a DUPR Reliability of at least 60, if the member wishes to use their DUPR rating as the basis for:
What is this DUPR Reliability? See the new Reliability article near the bottom of this page. It is easy to get a Reliability of 60 if you play in 20 DUPR games that are entered into DUPR by a club, such as SAPC, EVP, The Pickleball Hub, and other facilities and clubs in the area, and if all 20 of those games are within the last 3 or 4 months. DUPR updates everyone's Reliability on Tuesday each week, so it may take a few days before you see a bump in your Reliability that results from games entered into DUPR. It will be challenging to attain a DUPR rating Reliability of 60 if you only have player-entered games in DUPR. For more info:
Membership Sales & Renewals for 20252025 memberships can be purchased now, are effective immediately after payment, and expire Dec 31 2025. Renew your Pickleball Canada and Pickleball Alberta membership BEFORE renewing your SAPC membership. The PCO and PA memberships are purchased on a separate system. See this webpage under the Explore Joining menu for more details. After renewing with PCO and PA, log back into this site and go to our Join page to join or renew. If you have kept your membership up to date, you can also renew by opening your profile and pressing the "Renew to 2026-01-01" button within your profile. Youth MembershipSAPC welcomes youth members 12 years of age or older. See our youth membership web page for more details. Want more news?See our newsletters. | Waitlist ChangesAs of May 2025, you can remove yourself from a waitlist for reserved play. Please do that whenever you become unavailable to play at the reserved play event. If you remain on a waitlist, watch your email closely as you could get an email, right up to the event time, saying you are registered to play. This is because our system automatically registers people at the top of the waitlist whenever registered players cancel. The easy steps for removing yourself from a waitlist are on this Reserved Play page. More Outdoor Courts NeededOur city's courts are full, and demand for more play continues to grow at more than 20% per year. Club members showed their support for new courts by attending our President's presentation to City Council on October 15. Here is the Gazette article. Ratings - IntroductionThe best play is usually play with others matched to your skill level so, like most other clubs, much of our play is organized by skill level. Those without a club rating can play in our 2.5 level games or in our "All" (All Play) sessions. See our Skill Levels and Ratings webpages for info on getting a rating or advancing your rating. Skills ChartWhat skills should you learn and practice to reach the next level? Check out this chart from Pickleball Canada. 2025 DUPR Play and Getting a RatingYour SAPC club rating and your DUPR rating are different from each other, but one of the ways to get or advance your club rating is by participating in the club's DUPR play. This 2025 outdoor season the club is offering:
Your DUPR rating will move up and down based on your DUPR play, but this will NOT affect your club rating until and unless you ask for your club rating to be adjusted. If and when you ask, your club rating will be reset up or down to match your DUPR rating. There is one exception to this. If:
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Do you want to know ...... where we play? Click on the top-level Play menu, then click on one of the location names to get an address and a Google map. ... about the color-coding and other features of our calendars? Click on the top-level Calendar menu. ... how our club works? Click on the top-level Club Mgmt menu. Volunteer Opportunities
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