Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Santubong (SMK Santubong), a nationwide secondary college in Jalan Pantai Puteri in Santubong, Sarawak, will quickly have a pickleball courtroom on its premises.
Constructing a pickleball courtroom in SMK Santubong, in response to Minister of Girls, Household, and Group Improvement Datuk Seri Nancy Shukri, is a step ahead in the direction of establishing Santubong itself (and Sarawak as a complete) as a hub for pickleball. The Minister additionally assured that plans for the power have been finalised, and that funding has already been secured.
“Establishing Santubong as a pickleball hub is a really promising endeavour, and positively our hope. Many school-level programmes have already been held to assist this imaginative and prescient,” Datuk Seri informed reporters after attending the RB Junior Pickleball Camp 2025 at RB Homestay & Farms in Santubong over the weekend. “SMK Santubong has been allotted funds for the courtroom’s development, and we are actually simply awaiting the challenge’s graduation.”
Datuk Seri, who doubles because the patron of RB Rinduk Pickleball Academy, additionally identified that pickleball might assist enhance Santubong’s sports activities tourism, and in flip assist the native financial system flourish.
Impressed by Native Expertise
The Minister, by the way, was impressed by the pickleball expertise she noticed within the RB Junior Pickleball Camp 2025.
A complete of 32 members from SK Buntal and SMK Santubong attended the camp, and plans are already underway to groom them for the Matta Malaysia Pickleball Grand Slam 2025 in October, in response to RB Rinduk Pickleball Academy President Ruslan Bujang. The perfect of the perfect, in flip, will probably be despatched to compete on the nationwide occasion.
“That is why we’re conducting the choice course of now. From the 32 gamers, between six and eight will probably be chosen to signify us,” Bujang defined.
From the seems of it, Santubong has the makings of a pickleball hotspot, with younger picklers displaying large potential, and the game getting a number of consideration from the native authorities. So, don’t be stunned if, in a couple of years’ time, Santubong in Sarawak turns into one other pickleball epicentre in Malaysia.
