St. Albert Pickleball Club

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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.)

If you haven't already done so, you can renew your membership for 2023:

Click the green Join button below to read about the new process.
To join or renew with our club this year you must use TWO different websites: this one AND the Pickleball Canada website. Do you want to know why? Or do you want more information on the new process? See this new FAQ page on Pickleball Canada (PCO) Membership.

Forgot your password? No problem. Click the head and shoulders icon, enter your email address and click "Forgot password." Go to your email, follow the steps to get your new password, and use it to log in.

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.

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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.

Visitors (non-members) are welcome to play with us!

Visitors must sign a waiver to play in our organized play sessions, and should have an appropriate skill level if playing in our 3.0, 3.5 and 4.0 rated sessions. No rated skill level is needed for our All Play or 2.0-2.5 sessions.
Please join as a member after two visits.
Visitors will pay two stickers to play at our school drop-in venues. Purchase these stickers from the member sponsoring your visit.
Only members may play at our Red Willow Community Church venue and in our SAPC DUPR play sessions.

Fee Summary - 2023

You will first pay $15 and a small processing fee to join Pickleball Canada and Pickleball Alberta, then adults will pay $45 to join SAPC for the 2023 membership year. Youth members have a reduced SAPC fee of $11.

These 2023 memberships are available starting Oct 1 2022, and expire on December 31 2023.

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.

See also our FAQ under the Explore Joining menu for more details.

News for You

Club Ratings Frozen

Our former rating system has been discontinued as of late January 2023, and SAPC is quickly developing a new rating regime. See the Newsletter of January 30, 2023 for the first announcement of this change.

As announced to all members on Feb 3 2023, SAPC has placed a freeze on the acceptance of ratings from any raters or any other club pending the ratings process review currently underway.

A Ratings Committee has been struck and has submitted a recommendation for the Board's consideration. The Board has agreed that SAPC should use DUPR as one of the methods available to members to attain a particular club rating.

Implementation details are now being determined, and many have been communicated in emails to members. These details will also be added to our website pages by mid-April.

It is expected that our ratings freeze will be lifted April 9, and our first DUPR play session will be held that day.

Youth Membership

SAPC welcomes youth members 12 years of age or older. See our youth membership web page for more details.

Membership Renewals for 2023

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. You can also renew by opening your profile and pressing the "Renew to 2024-01-01" button within your profile.

2023 memberships are available on or after Oct 1 2022, are effective immediately, and expire Dec 31 2023.

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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

More Categories in Your Profile
Volunteering for your club is a great way to meet more people, and it is so satisfying to give back -- to contribute to a great organization and help your fellow members.
There are now more volunteer areas identified at the end of your membership profile. Log into your profile and pick your areas of interest. Training is available for all teams and positions.
The next time we need more volunteers in a particular area we will first go to those who have declared an interest via their profile.

All Play and Rated Play

Any member, whether club rated or not, may attend a session designated in our calendars as "All Play" or "2.5"

If play is rated to a specific level, such as 3.0, 3.5 or 4.0, players must be rated at the designated level to play at that session. If a session is designated with a "+" sign, such as "3.0+" or "3.5+" then attending members must be rated at that level or higher.

For more info on ratings, read our Skill Levels and Ratings page.

Organized Play Types and Times

If you are a new member, you may be wondering how our organized play works. Well we have several types of organized play. Most play types are described here. Reserved play is described here.

Play times are in one or more of our many calendars. Watch these calendars and our news for season openings, closing and any changes.

Outdoor play generally runs from late April or early May to early October at our Alpine courts. Here's the calendar for Alpine.

Court locations are here.