For many, pickleball is a new way to get outside and move around. It might be a fun way to hang out with family or friends, or to get the competitive juices flowing for those who don’t usually partake in competition. For others, it’s a weekly or even daily workout ritual.

And yet, for Avi Yehuda, it’s even more than that.

Yehuda is the head pickleball pro at the Katz JCC in Cherry Hill, a title that may raise some eyebrows; however, Yehuda’s resume speaks for itself. He has won medals at the Philadelphia Open and New Jersey Open, as well as playing on a team that placed second at USTA nationals in tennis, which was his first love as a racquet sport.

For Yehuda, pickleball is much more than a game. It’s his job, and also a way to forge connections.

“I love teaching — for me to see peopl

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