Mission and Vision
Tucson Area Pickleball (TAP) was organized to promote the development of the amateur sport of pickleball for the recreation and health of residents in the greater Tucson, Arizona area. TAP is a 501(c)(4) Arizona nonprofit corporation which receives substantial revenues from a combination of contributions, membership fees, and gross receipts from activities that further its exempt purpose.
TAP will continue to provide the infrastructure for the development of the sport through promulgation of official rules, sponsoring and sanctioning tournaments and clinics, communicating with its members via e-mail and newsletters, training of all levels of players, and otherwise promoting pickleball.
2026 Board Members and Officers
PRESIDENT: Megan Hughes
A Tucson native, Megan has been in education for 30 years and is now a data interventionist at Palo Verde High School. She’s been playing pickleball since 2018 with her husband Lance and their 2 daughters. Her experience as a teacher gives her a healthy perspective into the sport. “There is always something we can be working to improve!”
VICE-PRESIDENT: Raz Rassmusen
Raz was raised in Texas but now resides full-time in Tucson. He enjoys all aspects of pickleball whether playing, refereeing, or teaching – it’s the competition, the different strategies, the socialization, but most of all it’s the people. Let’s Play!
TREASURER: Priscilla Scott
Born in Illinois, Priscilla is a retired Critical Care RN & Certified Public Accountant. She found pickleball when she visited Voyager RV Resort in Tucson in 2004, and adopted the sport and the desert shortly after. After serving as a USA Pickleball ambassador for 10 years, she joined a group of Tucson’s ambassadors in 2016 to help the city develop pickleball facilities.
SECRETARY: Nancy Cuzman
Nancy relocated to Tucson, from Chicago, in 2018 for a nursing job. She is a registered nurse and Certified Diabetes Care & Education Specialist, now semi-retired. Finding pickleball was a godsend to connect socially, enjoy the great outdoors and get fun, daily physical activity. In her spare time, you’ll find Nancy walking her dogs, swimming, hiking, volunteering or visiting her children and grandchild.
DIRECTOR: Steve Kanner
Steve is as surprised to find himself on the TAP board as he was when he found pickleball in a Seattle gym in 1990. He immediately saw the benefit the sport could bring to a HS PE curriculum that emphasized lifetime fitness, co-ed play and recreation. Having badminton lines, wiffleballs, nets and poles, he asked the shop teacher to cut paddles from plywood sheets. Game was on and it was an immediate success. Steve plays at TRC regularly and played APPL league the last two years. Being an educator for 38 years, Steve plans to be a contributing coach, instructor.
DIRECTOR: Leonard Finkel
Leonard is a freelance writer and the author of The Secrets to the Game of Golf & Life and former editor in chief of Golf Journeys Magazine. Finkel also works as a marketing and public relations consultant and owns Advertorial Concepts Inc. In addition to Treasurer of ALL IN Youth Pickleball, his charitable work included the Steering Committee for the San Marcos CA Boys and Girls Club golf tournament, tutoring Elementary school students through the Vista, CA library program, board member of Tucson Area Pickleball and volunteer golf cart driver at the Tucson Medical Center.
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