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Advanced Pickleball Skills Clinic


Courses Adult / Athletics -
Fall 2025

Clinics provide group instruction focused on specific skills and based on your level of play. Each clinic will offer instruction, tips and tactics of play around those skills.

Sept 8, 20, Nov 11, 22 - Kitchen Play

Sept 10, 27, Nov 13 - Transition Zone 

Sept 15, Nov 15, 18 - Serving & Returning

Sept 17, Nov 20 - All Around Level Up

Specific Clinic Descriptions

1. KITCHEN PLAY - Dinking with emphasis on purpose, techniques, shifting and strategies.
-Volleying with emphasis on punch volleys, roll volleys and reset volleys
-Speed ups at the kitchen
-Lobs and retrieval of lobs

2. TRANSITION ZONE
- Emphasis on using drives and drop shots to transition from the baseline to the kitchen line.
-Utilizing resets from the transition zone to move up to the kitchen.
-Determine when to transition from the baseline to the kitchen and when to stay back.
-We would play the 7-11 game in this session.

3. SERVING AND RETURNING
 - Serving with emphasis on speed, placement and variety to keep the returning team guessing
-Return of service with emphasis on depth, placement and spin
-Overhead smashes and retrieval (Survivor game)

4. ALL AROUND LEVEL UP 
- Emphasis on serve and return strategies, dinking strategies, volleying strategies, drop shots, overhead smashes
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Instructor

Vince Greiner


After watching others play this fun looking game, I took lessons in 2017. Little did I know it would turn into an absolute obsession. The fun thing I enjoy about Pickleball is that is a very social sport. I started teaching Pickleball because I really enjoy growing this sport that I love. I have taught kids clinics, private lessons as well as group lessons.

Kris Schwartz


I love Pickleball; for the fun, the new friends, the active lifestyle, and the competition. Spending most of childhood on the tennis courts in Stillwater, I played competitive tennis from the age of 10 through college. Pickleball allows me to compete again; and I have the added bonus of having my sister for a doubles partner.

I started playing Pickleball 5 years ago, and now spend as much time as I can on the court. There is nothing like seeing the joy on a new player’s face when they make contact with the ball for the first time. I use a student centered approach in my teaching. I realize that people play Pickleball for many different reasons. You may be a beginner checking out the sport, newly retired looking for a new hobby, or someone working to bring your game to the next level. The sport is approachable and there is something in it for everyone.

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946-1 Kitchen Play
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Vince Greiner
$ 25.00
person
Stillwater Area High School
Sep 8
10:45 AM - 12:15 PM
946-10 Serving & Returning
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Vince Greiner
$ 25.00
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Stillwater Area High School
Nov 18
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
946-11 Level Up
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Sa
Vince Greiner
$ 25.00
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Stillwater Area High School
Nov 20
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
946-12 Kitchen Play
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Th
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Sa
Kris Schwartz
$ 25.00
person
Stillwater Area High School
Nov 22
10:15 AM - 11:45 AM
946-2 Transition Zone
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Sa
Vince Greiner
$ 25.00
person
Stillwater Area High School
Sep 10
10:45 AM - 12:15 PM
946-3 Serving & Returning
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Sa
Vince Greiner
$ 25.00
person
Stillwater Area High School
Sep 15
10:45 AM - 12:15 PM
946-4 Level Up
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Sa
Vince Greiner
$ 25.00
person
Stillwater Area High School
Sep 17
10:45 AM - 12:15 PM
946-5 Kitchen Play
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Sa
Kris Schwartz
$ 25.00
person
Stillwater Area High School
Sep 20
10:15 AM - 11:45 AM
946-6 Transition Zone
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Kris Schwartz
$ 25.00
person
Stillwater Area High School
Sep 27
10:15 AM - 11:45 AM
946-7 Kitchen Play
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Tu
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Sa
Vince Greiner
$ 25.00
person
Stillwater Area High School
Nov 11
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
946-8 Transition Zone
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Tu
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Sa
Vince Greiner
$ 25.00
person
Stillwater Area High School
Nov 13
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
946-9 Serving & Returning
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Tu
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Th
F
Sa
Kris Schwartz
$ 25.00
person
Stillwater Area High School
Nov 15
10:15 AM - 11:45 AM