Pickleball becomes Washington State's Official Sport
Published Tue 29 Mar 2022
On an asphalt slab in front of a wooded home, Gov. Jay Inslee on Monday signed into law a bill he said was three years in the making.
The signing took place on the original home-based pickleball court (formerly a badminton court) on the shores of Bainbridge Island, where the game was conceived in 1965.
Inslee began by quoting the founding fathers, professing that all are created equal and endowed with certain inalienable rights.
“Amongst those rights being the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of pickleball,” he said to a chuckling audience.
