Thank you for joining us for our 1st Blazing Paddles Pickleball Tournament!
Saturday, February 10, 2024 @ Chicken N Pickle Grand Prairie (TX)
Special thanks to Jason Pullman - star DJ at 99.5 The Wolf - for serving as our Blazing Paddles Pickleball Tournament Host! And thanks to our volunteers and the staff at Chicken N Pickle for helping us put on an amazing event. The event started with open play, then at 10 am, our pickleball pro gave everyone the tournament instructions and the competition began on their six indoor courts.
We had firefighters from the following seven Dallas-Fort Worth Fire Departments: Cedar Hill Fire Dept, Coppell Fire Department, Dallas Fire Rescue, DFW Airport Fire Service, Fort Worth Fire Department, Mansfield Fire Department, and Plano Fire-Rescue.
Pickleball Tournament winners:
First place team: Cody Lo and Adam Sherwood
Second place team: Nathan Newcomb and Mike McMahon
Tied for third place: Dakota Brinkley and Jordan Davis / Paige Crowley and Joao Pedro Correra
The Fire Family Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that helps firefighters and their families nationwide in times of need. This event funds our much-needed core programs: relief grants to firefighter families facing hardship; annual college scholarships for the children of firefighters; disaster relief to firefighters who have lost their homes; and grants to other fire charities for firefighter-specific programming.