Some bipartisan senators are picking up paddles and trying out America's fasting growing sport as a way to build relationships. They're trading partisan barbs for friendly competition.
Senators Shelley Moore Capito and Thom Tillis face off in a game of pickleball in the Dirksen Senate Office Building, along with members of the D.C. professional team.Senators Shelley Moore Capito and Thom Tillis face off in a game of pickleball in the Dirksen Senate Office Building, along with members of the D.C. professional team.A bipartisan group of Senators are joining the ranks of Americans picking up paddles and playing the fastest growing sport in the country — pickleball.
West Virginia GOP Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, who is a tennis player, took it up during the pandemic as a way to spend time with family outside. She co-chairs the new Senate pickleball caucus with Tillis and Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst. North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis co-chairs the Senate pickleball caucus and recently played with a group of D.C. pro playersNorth Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis co-chairs the Senate pickleball caucus and recently played with a group of D.C. pro players"There are no excuses," Tillis said."You can do it before the committee meeting starts, go take a shower and you're at work.""They trash talk me, humiliate me, we have fun," Tillis said.
Al Tylis, who owns the D.C. team, told NPR, he's been involved in other professional sports team, but like others who started playing pickleball he got addicted. He attributes the growth of the league to fact that people start playing the game and"it just becomes contagious."Congresswoman Sara Jacobs, 34, is younger than the Senators in the caucus, and says some House members are starting their own pickleball caucus.
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