Pickleball Lessons on Hilton Head Island

She has been playing pickleball since 2015 when the program started here at Palmetto Dunes. Her previous coaching experience also includes Varsity Head Tennis Coach at Hilton Head High School where they won a state team championship for the girl’s team and individual championships for members of the boy’s team.

His main sport before pickleball was karate for 17 years – practicing, competing and teaching. This discipline has helped him with necessary patience and body mechanics movements. He started playing pickleball because it was fun – and it is the only sport he has ever played where he has lost a point from laughing too much. Rick loves working at Palmetto Dunes because he gets to meet so many great people from all over the world and help develop their skills and a love for this fantastic sport.

Reggie originally learned to play pickleball in PE class in the 1980s growing up in Washington State. After military service, he went on to a 30 year career coaching tennis (including 10 seasons coaching college tennis). He returned to pickleball in 2019 and joined Palmetto Dunes team in 2020. He is a certified PPR pickleball professional and national clinician. As a PPR clinician Reggie teaches and certifies pickleball coaches from all over the country.

Craig has been retired from managing Home Building companies for over 25 years. He has a wife and 4 boys and has lived in the Lowcountry for over 25 years.

Mark Williams grew up in central Pennsylvania and graduated from Penn State in 1980. He then joined the United States Air Force and put in a stellar 20-year career before retiring in 2001. Mark also worked as a defense contractor supporting the USAF for 13 years before retiring to Hilton Head in 2018. While in Virginia, he coached girls travel club volleyball for eight years and helped numerous players compete at the next level in college. He played beach volleyball for 30+ years and was a member of the Air Force volleyball team and multiple national indoor open competitor. Mark enjoys teaching multigenerational families to play pickleball and develop a lifelong recreational sport and is also involved with coaching for the SC Special Olympics pickleball program.

She is from Richmond Virginia, where she was a NREMT Paramedic and coached/trained athletes in a variety of sports, including swimming, cycling, running, paddleboarding and kayaking. In 2020, she was introduced to pickleball and “has never put her paddle down”. She enjoys working with people of all ages and from many walks of life, as well as making new friends along the way.