Column: Courting Competition

Symonds playing in tournament, then helping host tourney here next weekend

  • Jimmi Symonds poses in front of players playing pickleball Friday night at the Palatka High School tennis courts, the same courts that host next week’s Palatka Azalea Pickleball Tournament. (Mark Blumenthal / Palatka Daily News)
    Jimmi Symonds poses in front of players playing pickleball Friday night at the Palatka High School tennis courts, the same courts that host next week’s Palatka Azalea Pickleball Tournament. (Mark Blumenthal / Palatka Daily News)
  • Pam Thompson delivers a serve during a pickleball match held at Palatka High in January. (ANTHONY RICHARDS / Palatka Daily News)
    Pam Thompson delivers a serve during a pickleball match held at Palatka High in January. (ANTHONY RICHARDS / Palatka Daily News)
Chances are you will find Jimmi Symonds on a pickleball court somewhere competing for fun or in competition. “Unless I was injured, I can’t think of a weekend where I didn’t go out and play one day…

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