Play Bigger, Better, BRIGHTER☀️🧠💛

Hey Baddies - it was a great week for me at the PPA Finals, as Anna Leigh and I ended the first half of our 2026 campaign undefeated and playing some very sharp pickleball. Hayden and I also had a good finish to our season, falling in the semis to Ben and AL in our closest match against them in a while. And did you see this crazy shot I hit?!

Generally, the results from the Finals were pretty chalk, and there’s something much more exciting that I want to talk to you guys about! ☀️🧠💛

For those of you who don’t know, during my break in the Winter I sought out to do something that had not been done before in the pickleball space. I created a program, a class, a COURSE that was meant to help players play, see, and understand pickleball completely differently. I had been wanting to get into the coaching space for a while, but just felt really uninspired by the idea of copying what others had already done (unstructured communities or content without much ability to have a lasting impact).

So, one day while on my walking pad- I had this idea. It was one of those where you immediately know you’ve come up with something special. I brain-dumped, refined the idea, got logos made, hired someone from India to make a website, even started this newsletter with the same name knowing what was coming, and eventually wrote here that I was hiring an assistant because I knew I couldn’t undertake creating this on my own (that’s how I found Alex💛).

My first run of the program was a test- not just of my capacity, but of my curriculum. Would it really help people? Could I really make people better pickleball players entirely through an online program? Could I actually teach people how to learn from themselves? After the first go, I can confidently say that the answer to all of these questions is a resounding YES.

The Academy is built around two things:

Serious improvement requires commitment - doing what you’ve always done won’t take you anywhere you haven’t already been. I created something that will force you to do things you haven’t done before- you’ll watch videos, watch yourself, receive feedback, do drills you’ve never done before, and so much more. Every single week follows the same cadence so you know both what’s coming and what’s expected. My goal is to maximize our time together to make you the best player you can be, not breadcrumb you into paying me in perpetuity for incremental improvements. That is wholly uninspiring to me.

The course is built around my Foundational Framework. I broke pickleball down into 7 key foundations, and every single week of the program we will focus on one (or sometimes two) core elements of our beloved game. The foundations aren’t “dinks”, “drops”, or “serves”. That’s both base-level and not the heart of what truly makes a great pickleball player great. I challenge you to think about pickleball completely differently and to give yourself the chance to see the game the way I see the game.

If you’d like to learn more about the Academy- we are running our first webinar TONIGHT at 9pm EST. You can add it to your calendar here (spots are filling up fast!!!)

I hope to see a lot of you in the Webinar, and some of you even in the Academy❤️

Dink big, dream bigger, your internet bestie, Anna🫦✨♥️