PICKLEBALL CERTIFICATION UPDATED
COMPREHENSIVE EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
SURE A+
✔✔when was pickleball created? - ✔✔during the summer of 1965 on Bainbridge island,
Washington, near Seattle.
✔✔where did the name come from? - ✔✔family dog named pickles who would chase
after balls and hide them in the bushes. Pickle's Ball was shortened to pickleball.
✔✔Initially, families played pickleball where? - ✔✔hard surfaces, driveways, and
residential dead end streets.
✔✔what did it evolve from? - ✔✔a family activity into a paddle court sport with
formalized rules.
✔✔where is it played now? - ✔✔school PE programs and at parks and recreation
centers, correctional facilities,camps, YMCA's and retirement communities. it's popular
among active senior adults, students, and at community centers.
COMPREHENSIVE EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
SURE A+
✔✔when was pickleball created? - ✔✔during the summer of 1965 on Bainbridge island,
Washington, near Seattle.
✔✔where did the name come from? - ✔✔family dog named pickles who would chase
after balls and hide them in the bushes. Pickle's Ball was shortened to pickleball.
✔✔Initially, families played pickleball where? - ✔✔hard surfaces, driveways, and
residential dead end streets.
✔✔what did it evolve from? - ✔✔a family activity into a paddle court sport with
formalized rules.
✔✔where is it played now? - ✔✔school PE programs and at parks and recreation
centers, correctional facilities,camps, YMCA's and retirement communities. it's popular
among active senior adults, students, and at community centers.
