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Mike Melendez PFA Paddleball Player Profile
Mike Melendez Paddleball Player Profile No-36 by Dave Siegel The Paddleball Family Alliance has inducted two greats into its Hall of Fame: Howie Hammer and John Bruschi. Everyone will agree that both are well deserving of this honor, but who should be next? You could...
Omaris Journet – PFA Paddleball Player Profile
Omaris Journet PFA Paddleball Profile 35 by Kim Ramos Omaris Journet has a big smile and an easy laugh. But don’t let that fool you! She is a dynamic left-handed competitor, always striving for perfection on the paddleball courts. Amazingly, she has been playing Big...
Omaris Journet – PFA Paddleball Player profile
Omaris Journet PFA Paddleball Profile by Kim Ramos Omaris Journet has a big smile and an easy laugh. But don’t let that fool you! She is a dynamic left-handed competitor, always striving for perfection on the paddleball courts. Amazingly, she has been playing Big Blue...
Lil Anthony Rodriguez(Arod) PFA Youth Profile No1
Anthony Rodriguez - Youth Paddleball Profile No1 by Mike Melendez He is a special kid, an "A" student, accepted to Amber National Elementary Honor Society, which is his proudest moment so far in his young life. He has his parents' DNA for one-wall sports, hence he is...
Caesar Polichetti – PFA Paddleball Player profile #34
Caesar Polichetti Paddleball Profile by Dave Siegel Remember the children’s storybook, “The Little Engine That Could?” In baseball, it’s José Altuve, the diminutive American League MVP who led the Astros to the World Championship. Remember Pete Rose, the ball player...
PFA Blog – The Poker Game By Michael Leiman
The Poker Game By Michael Leiman The competition at the five paddleball courts off Carmine Street in Manhattan was ferocious. No one wanted to lose and all of us fought like mad, yelled like mad, disputed calls like mad, to avoid it. But, in the end, one team got to...
Anthony Rodriguez – PFA Paddleball Player profile #33
Anthony Rodriguez Paddleball Profile by Kim Ramos-Rodriguez Tony has been playing ball since he was 17 years old. Born and raised in the Bronx, he started playing handball before transitioning to paddle and racquet, although he still prefers small-ball paddleball. A...
PFA Official Paddleball Code of Conduct Document – New
Click below to display document PFA Code of Conduct Suspensions & Penalties Executive Summary V2
Jimmy Kandylas – PFA Paddleball Player profile #32
Jimmy Kandylas Paddleball Profile by Dave Siegel When I write my paddleball profiles, a list of questions is sent to the subject that elicits some basic information. Then I usually reach out via interview, hoping to draw some interesting tidbits. Well, for Jimmy...
Donnie Ciaffone – PFA PB Player profile #31
Donnie Ciaffone Paddleball Profile by Mike Melendez The decade of the 1980s marked the Golden Years of paddleball as the sport's popularity skyrocketed across the five boroughs of New York. Many of the public parks were producing budding stars. At Bay 8th Street in...