Greetings supporters of the Chuck Allen Tournament!
| Over the past six years, the Chuck Allen Memorial Tournament held at Jenkinsville Park has raised over $41,000 to benefit local charitable organizations. This year – the 6th Annual – raised $11,000 – that’s a $3,500 increase over last year! We are very grateful to the players whose tournament fees supported the tournament, our 12 sponsors this year (raised $4,100) and to the many folks and businesses who donated to our raffle. The raffle alone raised $2,200. Thank you to those who donated privately – either through the pickleballtournaments.com website or through the raffle. Funds raised this year will benefit “WIN” – Women in Need – an organization that provides financial assistance to Women, Children and Families in need in the Warren, Washington and Essex County communities.
After considerable thought and discussion, the organizing committee for the Chuck Allen Memorial Tournament has decided to step down from running this tournament. This year 203 players supported this event making up 130 teams. The goal of the tournament has always been first to honor Chuck Allen – who was instrumental in getting Pickleball established in the Adirondack community. Chuck passed away from cancer in 2020 – but in 3 years he helped get Jenkinsville Park converted into 8 pickleball courts, ran several women’s and mixed events and along with his wife Cindy, and a few other dedicated volunteers — created the Adirondack Pickleball Club! The email list now has 700 folks who subscribe. In his honor, the committee also wanted to provide a local tournament for the Pickleball community. Attendees from this year’s tournament came from 11 different states, the bulk of which were from the Saratoga and capital district. A big thank you to those who have supported the tournament year after year! We could not run an event like this without our many volunteers! That includes our referees, scorekeepers, court monitors, PA system announcer, those who set-up and helped get the site ready, folks who provided technical support, raffle table volunteers as well as the Town of Queensbury. It’s all possible because of their efforts. Also, thank you to photographer Jan Hazewski who took many photographs. Please paste the link below on your browser to view. Photos have also been posted on our Adirondack Pickleball Facebook page! https://www.icloud.com/sharedalbum/#B2U5yeZFhZZKdB This year, the weather was perfect and it felt like Chuck Allen was smiling down on us. Cindy Allen and her family have been instrumental in ensuring this tournament was a success. Her efforts to bring on new organizers and volunteers each and every year is immeasurable. Personally, I am so very grateful to the organizers and volunteers from past and present. To run a tournament like this takes a village! Sincerely and gratefully, Chuck Allen Organizing Committee Mary Hilliard (tournament director), Cindy Allen (volunteer coordinator), Maura Fox (Registrar & treasurer), Missy Prout (raffle coordinator), Dan Hazewski (referee coordinator), Jan Hazewski (photographer) and Lori Baldauf (communications coordinator) |