Barrie Pickleball Club Membership
The 2025 membership fee with the Barrie Pickleball Club is $55 for adults. Junior membrships are free.
As a Pickleball Ontario-affiliated club, both juniors and adults are also required to be members of Pickleball Ontario ($10) and Pickleball Canada ($10).
Your membership is valid until December 31st. The Club has 4 separate sessions and options to join programming in each of the following sessions.
- Winter January-Early March
- Spring Mid March-Mid May
- Summer Late May-October
- Fall October-December.
Membership fees pay the outdoor court and school rental costs.
[Note: Pickleball Canada charges a processing fee at check out, calculated at 4.9% + $.50.]
Who We Are
Barrie Pickleball Club is a not-for-profit group incorporated on June 14, 2021.
We are passionate and dedicated pickleball players advocating for the needs of pickleball players in our community. Before formalizing, our advocacy resulted in adding a pickleball court on the Sandringham Park tennis court and subsequent construction of the original Painswick Park and Redpath Park dedicated pickleball courts.
Highlights in 2021 included receiving a $25,000 New Horizons for Seniors Grant, which the Club turned over to the City of Barrie. The grant funds were used to construct two additional dedicated courts at Painswick Park and purchase court equipment for the Club. Our advocacy and determination to expand places to play also resulted in four dual-purpose courts at Greenfield Park.
In the fall of 2022, construction of 4 dedicated courts at Eastview Park was completed.
In 2022, the City Council approved a Staff Report recommending constructing an 8-court tournament facility at Painswick Park. Construction on those courts was completed in the fall of 2023. Six new courts are built to competitive play specifications, and two are built to elite/wheelchair-size specifications. We believe the two elite/wheelchair-size courts will be the first outdoor courts in Ontario.
The Club plays indoors at several public and catholic schools in Barrie throughout the fall/winter months.
Currently, the Barrie Pickleball Club consists of the following directors and founding members:
Gil Metcalfe, Kim Porter, Tamara Crawford, Wendy Burke, and Michael Agema.
Barrie Pickleball Club Mission
- Promote the game of Pickleball as a social, intellectually stimulating, fun and healthy physical activity for players of all ages
- Acquire and develop more facilities, times and places to play
- Create opportunities for skills and player development by offering relevant and diverse programming
Lessons/Learn to Play
Some current opportunities are listed on the events calendar below for Learn to Play and Advanced Beginner sessions. Please use filter using the "clinic" option.
If you are interested in learn-to-play classes, drill sessions, clinics, private, semi-private or small group lessons, contact the club at lessons@barriepickleballclub.ca.
Please be patient, as we have a large volume of inquiries.
Where to Play
During the summer months, please see the attached schedule for outdoor programming. Club play will take place at Painswick Park from 6 pm to 10 pm. Please see the posted schedule for information on courts which are permitted by the club. Courts A, B, K and L are always for community members to play on WITHOUT a club membership.
We are thrilled to offer a wide range of evening indoor play options at several local schools in the fall, winter, and spring, catering to a variety of levels.
Also, during the fall/winter, the City of Barrie offers drop-in pickleball at both the East Bayfield and Peggy Hill Recreation Centers. Please check the City of Barrie drop-in schedule for details.
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