Roster Rating Standard Appeal

Actual APPL Index is 2.97
Played 3.0 last season - qualifies for FAST Track

• APPL history of results does not support the Appeal

Karen is .01 off of what would be an auto appeal. Two years ago she was injured in a bicycle crash in August 2023 that broke her spine, her pelvis and her arm. It was months before she was out of the hospital and at home again. She did not play last year until May 2025 when she was finally released to do so.

Karen has been down at ACE every single day taking lessons, working on the ball machine and playing with 3.0 and 3.5 players.

Her tenacity warrants a 3.0 rating if nothing else. She was literally shattered into many pieces.

Won 73%
Dominated 2.5

Approve

Dominated division
good w/l percentage 70%
and low points allowed by opponents
APPROVE

Sue is a 3.57 player who is asking to play down to a 3.0. She is 75 years old and wants to play doubles with her husband who is a 3.0 and is 82 years old. She was quite sick this past spring and has had a hard time recovering.

Sue and her husband played together last year in 30 games. They won 22 and lost 8. They gained 6 Appl points and allowed 12.

Sue's rating bobbed around all year going between the 3.37 she started with and peaked for one game at 3.6 before going back to a 3.55. While she was over 3.5 most of the season it was usually 3.51, 3.55.... she only hit 3.6 at one time and only for one game of one match.

While her husband COULD play up on a 3.5 team due to his age, his ratings are continuously low 3.2.

with that being said, is she better than 3.0 yes, at 75 playing a a 65+ should that give her some grace when she plays with an 82 year old partner.....

My feelings are if they are husband and wife and can even stand to play together on the same side.... they must be amazing people. I would vote yes based on age. But I realize I am pretty tenderhearted when it come to things like this.

Helen has not played outside of the White Mountain APPL leagues since 2022. Her ending rating in 2022 was a 3.52.

Since we cannot use White Mountain ratings and I have no access to anything other than the southern region I am unable to look anything up.

With that being said, Helen has applied on a medical appeal. PER HELEN In March of 2025 I was diagnosed with Acanthamoeba Keratitis and as a result of the infection I am currently blind in my left eye. I have been unable to play pickleball at all for almost 6 months. I was on a team up in the White Mountains this summer but because of the pain, doctor's appointments in Tucson, and the inability to play at a competitive level with my team I did not participate.

I am just getting back on the courts and doing the best I can with one eye. I am hoping to have a cornea transplant once they eye tissue is healthy enough, but even then, it is uncertain if I will have my sight back.

Since she did not play at. all this season and. her APPl rating from the Southern Region is stale, I would like to have her approved either as a self-rated player or allow her appeal to the 3.0 level being only .02 above 4 years ago. She is blind in one eye which would make depth perception almost impossible.

I ask that she be approved.

Edward has no recent Appl history and should enter as a self-rated player. He has been notified of. this.

Good w/L record

w 3, l- 18
had surgery
2025 first year, probably should have started at 3.0

David Denson is requesting to play 3.0 from 3.5. He is asking for a medical appeal due to rotator cuff surgery. He feels he will be ready by February.
HOWEVER, he has never played 3.0 in APPL. He started at 3.7 in 2023 finishing the season at 3.67. In 2024. he started the season and played the whole season at 3.67 finishing at 3.87.
He played one match in 2025 starting at 3.87 and ending at 3.74

He has a stale dupr from 2022 at 3.865.
While I understand the surgery will make a difference he is asking to appeal from 3.74 to a 3.0.

I don't know that he was ever a 3.0 player in his past.....I have mixed feeling but I am inclined to say that is too big of a drop.

APPROVE
Her index is 2.72 and originally appealed as her team was thinking about playing 3.0. She was basically the guinea pig to see if they could get appeals....Then the team decided to stay at 2.5 "after" she had appealed.