Pickleball pioneer Barbara Wintroub brought the sport to Santa Monica, CA fifteen years ago and Palm Desert, CA the next year. As one of the best senior players the sport has to offer, Barbara is nationally ranked in pickleball and a tournament tennis player for 63 years. Beyond coaching and teaching pickleball, she is an active aging expert with a degree in kinesiology who has written a book that encourages “Fighting Gravity.” This book can be purchased on Amazon. She also is a master trainer Pilates instructor, one of the first women certified as a USPTA tennis teacher, former competitive bowler as a child, an IRONMAN triathlete, and is one of the first 40 women worldwide to have run a marathon on all seven continents.
Additionally, Kyle introduced one of the new sports for the Huntsman World Senior Games this year: Disc Golf.