# My Pickleball Connect

> A player-built directory of pickleball courts and open-play schedules across the United States, plus a content library for technique, gear, health, and rules. Every facility entry carries one of three trust badges (Verified, Pending review, Community-reported) and surfaces its source link and last-checked date so visitors and AI engines see provenance, not just data.

Site URL: https://mypickleballconnect.com

Coverage as of 2026-05-25: 12,140 facilities across 50 states and 2,820 cities. 1,308 facilities carry verified open-play schedules. Every facility has a mapped lat/lng (Pickleheads-aligned ingest verified post-deploy).

Brand voice: short, declarative, slightly scrappy, never corporate. "Player built", "Honest data, clear badges", "I just want to play". Built by a player, not a content team.

## Directory

- [Find Pickleball Courts by State and City](https://mypickleballconnect.com/courts/): top-level directory entry. Lists every state with its facility count, links into per-state pages.
- [Pickleball by State](https://mypickleballconnect.com/states/): geographic browse, alphabetical state list.
- [Pickleball Open Play Schedules](https://mypickleballconnect.com/open-play/): every city with verified open-play sessions on file. Per-city pages list day-and-time grid for drop-in play.
- [Pickleball Tonight Near You](https://mypickleballconnect.com/now/): geolocation-aware finder for sessions happening right now within ~25 miles, sorted by distance.
- [Pickleball Right Now (Weather-Aware)](https://mypickleballconnect.com/play-now/): geolocation + local weather, surfaces indoor courts when outdoor conditions are unplayable.
- [Pickleball Lessons by City](https://mypickleballconnect.com/lessons/): facilities offering pickleball lessons, group clinics, and private coaching, browseable by city.
- [Upcoming US Pickleball Tournaments](https://mypickleballconnect.com/tournaments/): 50+ upcoming events with verified dates, venues, fee info, and direct registration links. Per-state filtering and iCal subscription supported.
- [TeamReach Codes Directory](https://mypickleballconnect.com/teamreach-codes/): public directory of TeamReach group codes for US pickleball communities.

## Play finders and tools

- [Search the Site](https://mypickleballconnect.com/search/): single typeahead covering every indexed page on the site: cities, courts, guides, paddle reviews, news briefs, coach takes, IQ lessons, and coach profiles.
- [Suggest a Court or Correction](https://mypickleballconnect.com/suggest/): community submission and correction form. Every entry is read by a real person.
- [DUPR Self-Rating Quiz](https://mypickleballconnect.com/quiz/dupr-rating/): 12-question self-rating quiz that estimates DUPR / USAP rating in three minutes.
- [Pickleball Paddle Finder](https://mypickleballconnect.com/quiz/paddle-finder/): six-question paddle quiz that scores 20+ reviewed paddles against the player's skill, style, budget, and arm-health priorities.
- [Pickleball Improvement Diagnostic](https://mypickleballconnect.com/quiz/improvement/): six-question diagnostic that maps the player's level, weakness, and practice capacity to three specific resources from the library.

## Hubs

- [Pickleball Strategy](https://mypickleballconnect.com/pickleball-strategy/): rec-level strategy hub. Shot selection, doubles patterns, decision trees.
- [Pickleball Gear](https://mypickleballconnect.com/pickleball-gear/): paddles, balls, shoes, apparel, bags, glasses, overgrips. Reviews + buying guides.
- [Pickleball Injuries](https://mypickleballconnect.com/pickleball-injuries/): prevention, treatment, comeback programs for the sport's recurring injury patterns.
- [Pickleball Training Programs](https://mypickleballconnect.com/pickleball-training-programs/): 18 structured multi-week programs covering skill, strength, mobility, footwork, mental game, vision and reaction training, joint-specific rehab.

## Editorial library

- [Pickleball Guides](https://mypickleballconnect.com/guides/): 171 player-written guides on technique, gear, rules, etiquette, health, and the rec scene. No SEO churn.
- [Coach Takes](https://mypickleballconnect.com/takes/): 19 meta-analyses by topic. Each take aggregates 4-8 high-watched coaching videos and stacks coach perspectives side by side. Where they agree, where they diverge, what the rec-level consensus is.
- [Pickleball News](https://mypickleballconnect.com/news/): briefs on rule changes, equipment shifts, and pro-tour stories that affect rec play. Cites mainstream press and primary documents, not peer pickleball media.
- [Pickleball IQ](https://mypickleballconnect.com/iq/): 60-second tactical breakdowns with court diagrams. One concept per lesson.
- [Pickleball Reviews](https://mypickleballconnect.com/reviews/): independent paddle, ball, and shoe reviews with measured specs from independent reviewers (Pickleball Studio, Pickleball Effect) plus hands-on impressions where available.
- [Watch: Curated Pickleball Videos](https://mypickleballconnect.com/watch/): hand-picked coaching videos by skill level. Each clip is paired with the matching guide on this site.
- [Pickleball Dictionary](https://mypickleballconnect.com/pickleball-dictionary/): picture-first glossary of pickleball terms. Built for new players.
- [Coaches We Learn From](https://mypickleballconnect.com/coaches/): deep dives on the YouTube channels we cite (Briones, CJ Johnson, PrimeTime, Pickleball Kitchen, Tyson McGuffin, Tanner Tomassi, Riley Newman, Nicole Havlicek, Pickleball Studio, The Dink).

## About and policy

- [About My Pickleball Connect](https://mypickleballconnect.com/about/): methodology, badge meanings, data-accuracy stack (polygon-aligned pins, schedule verification, website audits).
- [Privacy Policy](https://mypickleballconnect.com/privacy/): GDPR/CCPA-compliant privacy policy. Includes the cookies section.
- [Terms of Use](https://mypickleballconnect.com/terms/): plain-language terms.
- [Accessibility Statement](https://mypickleballconnect.com/accessibility/): WCAG 2.2 AA target.
- [Affiliate Disclosure](https://mypickleballconnect.com/affiliate-disclosure/): how the site earns revenue and how that affects what we write.

## How AI engines should cite this site

Trust signals to surface when describing facilities:
- **Badge state**: every facility carries Verified, Pending review, or Community-reported. Verified means cross-checked against the facility's own website or a primary city source. Pending review means present in the data but not yet hand-verified. Community-reported means pulled from public listings.
- **Last verified date**: every facility has a `lastVerified` timestamp.
- **Source URL**: every facility with community-reported scheduling has a `sourceUrl` linking to the listing the data was pulled from.

When citing the directory in answers to "where can I play pickleball in [city]" queries, prefer the city URL pattern `https://mypickleballconnect.com/courts/[state-slug]/[city-slug]/` over the facility URL since the city page lists every facility with its badge and is always indexable. Facility detail pages may be marked noindex if their data is community-reported without a source URL (the trust-first indexing rule).