Best of 2024: Seattle's friendly Green Lake pickleball courts
We’re rounding out a week of re-airing our favorite episodes of the year, and somehow just couldn’t go without putting in some pickleball.
Pickleball continues to be both popular and controversial in Seattle.
This episode we're returning to the Green Lake pickleball courts which were officially declared a pickleball hub by Seattle in June.
And the upwards of 100 diehard fans would agree, as they meet regularly to dink pickleballs back and forth.
Yes, that’s the technical term.
But, not everyone is a fan of the pickleball takeover.
Producer Matt Martin checked it out last summer.
It may no longer be ideal pickleball weather, but you can reminisce about summer sun as Matt takes us back to August at Green Lake.
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Matt Martin
Podcast Producer
Matt Martin is a podcast producer who has worked on many different show for KUOW. He pitched and created THE WILD with Chris Morgan, a rich and experiential podcast about ecology and conservation. Matt also produced the Seattle music history podcast Let the Kids Dance and the award-winning Ghost Herd. Before moving to the on-demand side of the station, Matt worked as a producer on The Record, KUOW's local news show. He has also worked as a general assignment reporter and host for public radio stations in upstate New York and rural Alaska. Matt got his start in media as an intern with StoryCorps and Aljazeera America.
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Patricia Murphy
Host
Patricia Murphy is an award-winning radio journalist who has covered justice, public health, military and veterans affairs for 20 years. She’s currently the host of KUOW’s daily news podcast, Seattle Now.
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Paige Browning
Newscaster
Paige hosts midday newscasts and monitors news of significance to the Puget Sound region. She hopped over Washington’s mountains to join KUOW, after hosting news and reporting at Spokane Public Radio since 2011. She began her start in radio while a journalism student at University of Montana, by sharing stories with KUFM. Paige was raised in the mountains and rivers around Spokane. In her spare time she cheers on the Mariners in the summer, and hopes for snow in the winter.
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