Popping Pickleballs

Across Acoustics

Across Acoustics
Popping Pickleballs
Jul 20, 2026
ASA Publications' Office

The sport of pickleball has become more than a passing fad. The equipment involved in the game, which include a hollow plastic ball perforated with holes, create some pretty unique sounds. In this episode we talk with Kathleen Romito and Jamie Banks (Quiet Communities) about their research into how pickleball noise affects bystanders. 


Associated paper: Kathleen M. Romito and Jamie Banks. "A survey of the community impact of pickleball noise: A pilot study." Proc. Mtgs. Acoust. 60, 040001 (2025) https://doi.org/10.1121/2.0002238.


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Music Credit: Min 2019 by minwbu from Pixabay. 
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