As often as we hear about pickleball being such a new, trendy sport, you might think it was only invented in the 2000s.
The truth is pickleball has been around since 1965. It was invented on Bainbridge Island in Washington state that year as a children’s backyard game.
Fifty-seven years later, and with 8.9 million people now taking it far too seriously, it was named the official state sport of Washington. In those years, it grew slowly across the country until the 2020s, when it now seems to explode exponentially.
As popular as it is, there’s no sign of slowing down, considering it’s expanding in Monmouth and Ocean Counties. Pickleball Kingdom is coming to Marlboro and Toms River…