Meet Our Board
Megan Hughes - President
Raz Rasmussen - Vice President
Raz Rasmussen - Vice President
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!"
Raz Rasmussen - Vice President
Raz Rasmussen - Vice President
Raz Rasmussen - Vice President
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!
Priscilla Scott - Treasurer
Raz Rasmussen - Vice President
Priscilla Scott - Treasurer
Born in Illinois, Priscilla is a retired Critical Care RN & Certified Public Accountant. She found pickleball when we visited Voyager RV Resort in Tucson in 2004, & 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.
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Nancy Cuzman - Secretary
Leonard Finkel - Director
Priscilla Scott - Treasurer
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, swim
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
Steve Kanner - Director
Leonard Finkel - Director
Leonard Finkel - Director
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
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.
Leonard Finkel - Director
Leonard Finkel - Director
Leonard Finkel - Director
Leonard Finkel 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. His work has
been featured in more than 200 publications including Golf Magazine, Golf
Digest, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Golf Illustrated, Golf Tips and
Player Magazine. He has writt
Leonard Finkel 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. His work has
been featured in more than 200 publications including Golf Magazine, Golf
Digest, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Golf Illustrated, Golf Tips and
Player Magazine. He has written more than a dozen cover stories for Golf Today
Magazine. He has written extensively about golf and travel and added poker to
his writing repertoire. Finkel also works as a marketing and public relations
consultant and owns Advertorial Concepts Inc. His specialty niche is writing
advertorial copy. Prior to his career in golf, Finkel owned a chain of retail stores
which included locations in Aspen, Vail, Beavercreek and Park City, Utah. He
also owned a consulting and import company based in Asia. Leonard attended
the University of Utah.
For six years he worked as a consultant then advertising and communications
manager for Club Champion. Over that period, the company went from eight to
86 locations. He retired in 2021.
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.