JOIN SMPA / RENEW A SMPA MEMBERSHIP
To become a SMPA member, or to renew your SMPA membership for the 2024-2025 season
Please donate $25 via the PayPal link below
– your membership donation helps provide and promote pickleball in our community!
SMPA’s membership list is updated approximately once a week. When the updates are made, new members receive a welcome email and info on SMPA’s current event offerings. They are also added to our members’ email distribution list to receive all of our announcements about event offerings and other SMPA information.
$25 donations that are made between 9/1/24 and 3/31/25 provide SMPA membership through
10/31/25.
$25 donations that were made between 4/1/24 and 8/31/24 provide SMPA membership through
5/31/25.
Current SMPA membership is required for entrance into summer leagues’
lottery spots in all SMPA / Royal Oak summer pickleball leagues.
Current SMPA membership is required throughout the duration of any SMPA
pickleball leagues.
As an annual member, you’ll become a sponsor of the following events in 2024-2025.
- Maintenance and repair of the courts and inner fencing at both Royal Oak Pickleball complexes.
- All pickleball equipment at both sets of Royal Oak pickleball courts – nets, windscreens, johns, signs, paddle boxes, brooms, squeegees, and more!
- Ladder league supplies for ~25 summer outdoor and fall /winter indoor pickleball leagues; see Leagues for more information on our most current leagues.
- Mixer and other event supplies for approximately monthly summer outdoor and fall / winter indoor pickleball mixers plus other events periodically.
- Our 15th Annual Royal Oak Classic Pickleball Tournament in August 2025; see 2024 tournament info here.
- Development of pickleball programs and partnerships throughout Southeastern Michigan.
- SMPA’s business overhead – website, email management, PayPal and Sign Up Genius membership and event registration software platforms, storage unit, liability insurance, and more. Please note: SMPA is an all volunteer run 501(c)3 non-profit organization – while our staff and other volunteers are appropriately reimbursed for business expenses, no one at SMPA receives a salary or other compensation for their volunteered time.
If you’d like to assist with any of the above activities, please email SMPA.MI.2022@gmail.com with your areas of interest. We welcome your support.
SMPA’s Recent Membership Numbers
- April 2021: ~200
- April 2022: 533
- April 2023: 371
- Feb. 2024: 570
