Lucy Wilder playing pickleball at Seminary Park in Lutherville. Photo by John Lee/WYPR.
Lucy Wilder playing pickleball at Seminary Park in Lutherville. Photo by John Lee/WYPR.

Pickleball players in Baltimore County say they are, well, in a pickle.

There are not enough courts to handle the people who are grabbing pickleball paddles and playing the nation’s fastest growing sport.

One of the county’s senior centers, a hotbed for pickleball, challenged the county executive to build more courts, and to bring his best game.

At a February budget town hall, dozens of people from the Jacksonville Senior Center were waving pickleball paddles at County Executive Johnny Olszewski.

“I knew I should have brought my paddle tonight,” Olszewski said.

A couple of years ago, Olszewski played his first game ever at the senior center. He lost. At the town hall he said he was ready for a rematch.

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