PTPC club member

Gold medalists…4.0 Northwest Regional Pickleball Championships
Our board and club member "Jeannie Ramsey" (right ) and her partner "Beverly Hoffman" (left).
( Photo taken in Boise Idaho)

Meet Jeannie Ramsey, newly-elected at-large board member for PTPC.  As the person in charge of activities, Jeannie has a lot of ideas about club socials and mixers, the first one being August 10 at Cape George. 4;00-7pm - 61 Cape George Drive. UPDATE: Annual meeting & Party has currently been canceled & postponed until further notice. News blast was sent out to all subscribers.

Jeannie has been playing pickleball for about eight years, coming from the world of tennis where she played competitively for more than fifty years.  "I thought I would never love a sport as much as I loved tennis, but then I discovered Pickleball,” she stated.  “This sport is fast, competitive and extremely fun. It’s a great social activity."

Jeannie is fortunate to be able to play on the Cape George community court, but is also a member of both our club and Sequim Picklers. Alongside another Sequim Pickler, Beverly Hoffman, she has competed in many tournaments in Washington as well as at the regional and National level. The team recently won the 4.0 75+ women’s doubles at the Northwest Regionals in Boise, ID, which automatically qualified them for the National Pickleball Championships which will be held at the Indian Wells complex in Palm Springs in December. This will be the second Nationals experience as she and Beverly competed in Casa Grande, AZ, several years ago.

• How did you and Beverly Hoffman meet and become tournament partners?

Beverly and I met when we were playing indoors at the Boys and Girls Club in Sequim during the winter. We were both just about 70 then and after playing a few times, she thought we had the same playing style and asked if I wanted to join her at the Nationals in Arizona. That was 5 or 6 years ago. We have medaled in every tournament we have played in, except that one.


• Highlight what the final match was like and what the score was before you and Beverly took the final as gold winners in the Northwest Regionals.

Our final match in regionals was played in over 100 degree heat and went three games. We lost the first 15-13, won the 2nd 14-12 and the 3rd 11-8. It was brutal, and in the end, I just think we communicated really well and were a bit more consistent than the other team.

good friends and gold medalist Jeannie ramsey and beverly hoffman
photo sent in by Jeannie taken at the Northwest Regionals in Boise, ID,

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Jeannie graduated from Utah State university with a degree in writing and mass communications. She was also a sports editor and editor of the college newspaper. She later moved from Utah to Southern California and worked in public relations for United Way and also for the University of the Seven Seas. Several years down the road Jeannie decided to go back to school and get her teaching credential followed by a MS in Special Education.

Jeannie moved to Port Townsend 17 years ago from Portland, OR after retiring from the field of education.  She was a high school counselor for 18 years, following several years in special education.  While her husband, Tom does not play Pickleball, he is one of her biggest supporters, following her to tournaments, and even being a linesman in the finals of the Washington Senior games a couple of years ago. With a combined family of four sons, and now five grandchildren, she has introduced them all to the game she loves.  “One of our sons is quite good.  He has joined a club in the Portland area and plays several times a week.”

The love of her life and biggest supporter, Jeannie's husband Tom.

 When Jeannie is not out on the court she is behind the scenes creating and making beautiful quilts. A woman of many talents!

During Covid 2020 on lock down,  Jeannie  put her time to good use and spent hours in her sewing room making over 1,000 face masks.

International Indoor Championships in Centralia 2019
Jeannie and Beverly took  Silver

Jeannie, do you have a favorite quote or words of wisdom?

‘It’s only Pickleball.”  For some, that seems a demeaning quote putting down Pickleball, but to me, it just means that, at the end of the day, if you got to play and you played well, the outcome is not all that important in the whole scheme of life.