The USHSPA is not the governing body of high school pickleball. There can’t be a governing body of high school pickleball.
The USHSPA aims to achieve six goals:
#1 To help high school pickleball become an official state interscholastic high school sport in all 50 states.
#2 To help those interested in starting and running a state high school pickleball association.
#3 To act as an information clearing house for anyone interested in high school pickleball.
#4 To act as a federation of state high school pickleball associations so these organizations can help each other network, form, operate and grow.
#5 To help state interscholastic sports associations gather data and find recommendations for creating their state’s high school pickleball rules and regulations.
#6 To help those interested in becoming new or better high school, junior high or middle school pickleball coaches.
Helping State Interscholastic Sports Bodies
State interscholastic sports organizations often look to national governing bodies of sports for rules ideas, but they adopt those rules voluntarily. During the coming years, as high school pickleball becomes an official interscholastic sport (state by state), each state’s interscholastic sports organization will most likely look to USA Pickleball rules for guidance in setting their state high school rules.
These state interscholastic sports organizations might someday also look to the USHSPA for guidance when developing their dual-match format, coach-contact, in-match coaching, lineups creation and scoring for their state’s high school pickleball competition rules.
The USHSPA will develop recommendations for these areas of high school pickleball through surveys of state high school pickleball associations (including those operating as a club sport until they achieve state interscholastic organization recognition as a high school sport).