Inaugural Pickle Ball Tournament of the SLAF
4:28pm on Friday 19th January 2018
The inaugural tournament of Pickle Ball was held at the AF Health Management Center (HMC) in Colombo on the 18th of January 2018 as a motivation session and to showcase new talents in order to develop and enhance the performance of the players.
Service personnel including Physical Training Instructors (PTI), who participated for the introductory training session and coaching camp conducted at AF HMC recently, also participated for the tournament. Warrant Officer Rathnayake RMD (PTI) and Leading Aircraftman Gunarathne (Ops Grd) emerged Champions whilst Corporal Rohanasiri (PTI) and Leading Aircraftman Sarath Kumara (Ops Grd) emerged the runners up of the doubles event.
Pickle Ball, a game started during the summer of 1965 on Bainbridge Island, Washington, at the home of former State representative Mr. Joel Pritchard was recently introduced to the Sri Lanka Air Force as one of the racquet/ paddle sports that combines elements of badminton, tennis and table tennis by veteran sportsman Mr. Asela Jayampathy.
Service personnel including Physical Training Instructors (PTI), who participated for the introductory training session and coaching camp conducted at AF HMC recently, also participated for the tournament. Warrant Officer Rathnayake RMD (PTI) and Leading Aircraftman Gunarathne (Ops Grd) emerged Champions whilst Corporal Rohanasiri (PTI) and Leading Aircraftman Sarath Kumara (Ops Grd) emerged the runners up of the doubles event.
Pickle Ball, a game started during the summer of 1965 on Bainbridge Island, Washington, at the home of former State representative Mr. Joel Pritchard was recently introduced to the Sri Lanka Air Force as one of the racquet/ paddle sports that combines elements of badminton, tennis and table tennis by veteran sportsman Mr. Asela Jayampathy.
