WHEELING – Pickleball is one of the fastest growing sports in the world. A pair of twin sisters from Wheeling are rising to the top of the sport, and would like to be considered ambassadors of the sport for area youth.

Ziva and Zoey Lawson, 13-year-old daughters of Mark and Sasha Lawson, have only been playing the sport for a little more than one year, but they’ve caught on very quickly.

“Our dad and his dad played racquetball when they were younger. Our dad found out what pickleball was and the more he started playing, the more we saw how fun it was and decided to give it a try,” Ziva said of their introduction to the sport.

The teen-age duo recently competed in the West Virginia State Pickleball Championships at the Hazel and J.W. Ruby Community Center Sports Complex inside Morgantown

See Full Page