About My Pickleball Connect.

My Pickleball Connect exists because finding a good place to play pickleball shouldn't require ten browser tabs, three Facebook groups, and a phone call to the local rec center.

We're building the resource we wished existed. A clean directory of courts and open play schedules, written for players by players. No paywall on the directory. No slow-loading junk. No fabricated data. Every court is labelled with how confident we are in it, right on its page.

How we label entries

Every court carries one of three badges:

• Verified. Cross-checked against the facility's own website or a primary city source. Green badge.
• Pending review. Present in our data, not yet finished with a human cross-check. Details can drift.
• Community-reported. Pulled from public listings and not yet hand-verified. Good starting point, but confirm before you show up.

If a fact is wrong or stale, email us and the badge moves to match reality. We won't promote an entry to Verified on hope.

The data-accuracy stack

The per-court badge is one layer of trust. Underneath it, we run continuous audits and corrections that don't show up on the badge but change what you actually see when you click into a facility:

• Pins on the actual court. 5,204 of 12,298 courts (42%) have map pins aligned to the real court polygon, not the parent park's lat/lng. Where we can't align, the satellite embed falls back to the geocoded address so you still see the right neighborhood.
• Open-play schedules. 1,309 facilities carry verified day-and-time session data on file, with the original source URL attached so you can confirm before driving over.
• Website links. 10,121 facilities have an outbound website set, audited periodically against a real-browser fetch (gov sites that block bots still count if a person can load them).

The numbers move every deploy. We don't claim coverage we don't have, and we don't bury misses. If a court page looks empty, that's the honest state of our data on that facility today.

Pricing we don't quote

For paid facilities, we never publish dollar amounts. Prices change, and it's better to link straight to the facility's own membership or pricing page than to state a number we might not keep current. Every paid row shows "Membership required. See current pricing," and the link takes you to the real thing.

What we've built on top of the directory

The courts list is the foundation. Built on top of it, two layers:

The directory layer:

• Open play schedules: drop-in schedules across US cities, sourced from public listings (facility websites) and community confirmations, with day-by-day session times.
• Play now: weather-aware finder for "where can I play right now, indoors or out, given the forecast?"
• Lessons: a directory of facilities running clinics and private coaching, sortable by city.
• Tournaments: upcoming US events with verified dates, venues, and direct registration links.
• TeamReach codes: public list of community group codes, refreshed as players submit them.

The editorial layer:

• Guides: 171 guides on technique, gear, rules, etiquette, and the rec scene. Player-written, no SEO churn.
• Training programs: eleven structured multi-week programs covering on-court skill, off-court strength, mobility, footwork, mental game, vision and reaction training, tournament peak prep, joint-specific rehab (knee, tennis elbow), and the 4-stage return-to-play protocol after injury.
• Coaches: deep-dives on the YouTube coaching channels we cite, with the frameworks each one is known for and where they diverge.
• Coach takes: 19 meta-analyses, one per topic (third-shot drop, hands battle, dink rally, transition zone, handling bangers, the serve, the lob, the overhead, mixed doubles, footwork, and more), pulling 4-to-8 high-watched coaching videos per topic and stacking them side by side.
• News: 16 briefs and counting on rule changes, equipment shifts, and tour stories that actually affect rec play, citing mainstream press and primary documents.
• Pickleball IQ: 60-second tactical breakdowns with court diagrams. One concept per lesson.
• Reviews: paddle, ball, and shoe reviews. Independent, with measurements where they matter.
• DUPR self-rating quiz: a 12-question self-assessment that produces a realistic skill-level estimate, calibrated to the actual DUPR distribution.
• Pickleball dictionary: a picture-first guide to the words you'll hear at the courts. Built for new players.

What's next

Coverage expansion. We're adding cities state by state and verifying facilities as we go. The weekly newsletter rounds up what we added that week and points at a couple of gear items worth looking at. Subscribe here.

Get in touch

Email hello@mypickleballconnect.com for court submissions, corrections, photo contributions, or partnership ideas. Every email is read by a real person.