Excel Pickleball | The best pickleball tournaments, leagues, lessons and clinics in Las Vegas.
The Excel Pickleball Player Development Program
Transform Your Game with Personalized Coaching
Our trainers focus on individual strengths and weaknesses, ensuring a tailored learning experience. This personalized approach helps players of all levels enhance their skills effectively.
Transform Your Game with Personalized Coaching
Excel Pickleball is excited to bring to Las Vegas a series of clinics, lessons, and drill sessions to help players of all skill levels to improve critical parts of their game. After all, we all want to be more consistent in our shot-making, as well as learn more and more about how to better play the sport we love. We all not only want to improve our game, but we want to be more confident when it comes time to find games on an open play court.
Unlock Your Potential: Mastering Pickleball with Expert Training Techniques
Our trainers utilize a variety of innovative methods to enhance your skills. From personalized drills to strategic gameplay, we ensure every session is tailored to your needs.
Skill Development
Game Strategy
Sharpen your pickleball skills with expert tips and training resources designed to elevate your game. From fundamentals to advanced techniques, we help players at every level reach their full potential.
Master the strategies that turn good players into great competitors. Learn positioning, shot selection, and winning tactics to outsmart your opponents and dominate the court.
Game Strategy
Master the strategies that turn good players into great competitors. Learn positioning, shot selection, and winning tactics to outsmart your opponents and dominate the court.
Meet Your Instructors
Meet our team of dedicated pickleball professionals, each bringing a wealth of experience and passion to the game.
Whether you’re a beginner or an advanced player, our experts are here to guide, coach, and inspire you at every step, ensuring you get the most out of your pickleball journey.
Let us help you elevate your skills and enjoy the game like never before!
Available Skill Levels:
Beginner: Brand new to the game
Beginner PLUS: Not new to the game
Intermediate: 3.0 to 3.5
Intermediate PLUS: 3.5 to 4.0
Advanced: 4.0 to 4.5
Advanced PLUS: 4.5 or higher
Ben McNair
5.5 Rated Pro Player & Coach
Ben is a high energy coach with a drive to help get the most out your game. Ben loves to teach pickleball from a physics and biomechanical perspective and specializes in transitioning players with tennis backgrounds to pickleball. He is a big proponent of the soft game, encouraging students to get comfortable in the transition zone and at the kitchen line.
Allie Davis
Pro Player and IFP Certified Instructor
Allie is an ex-collegiate soccer player turned sponsored pickleball pro. She found pickleball in 2019 and her DUPR ranks her #5 in the Great Plains region. As a Colorado native, she has a proven track record of 5.0+ tournament wins in Women’s, Mixed, and MLP tournaments. She loves to body bag her opponents weaknesses when given the opportunity and she prides herself in mixed and women’s double’s strategy. If you’re looking to improve your soft game, Allie is the coach for you!
Guy Anderson
Level I Instructor
A USPTA certified Pickleball and has the ability to teach to beginners or develop skills, technique and game strategy to advanced players.
Tony Spurlin
Level I Instructor
Level I IPTPA Certified Pickleball instructor and Tournament Director for Excel Pickleball.
Celina Lopez
Level I Instructor
Former USA Pickleball Ambassador for Nevada, now a Level 2 trained referee preparing for certification.
Mario Najera
Level II Instructor
Coach Mario, a certified IPTPA Level II instructor, has been a competitive racquetball player for 40 years, until he got hooked on pickleball in 2012.
Available Skill Levels:
Beginner: Brand new to the game
Beginner PLUS: Not new to the game
Intermediate: 3.0 to 3.5
Intermediate PLUS: 3.5 to 4.0
Advanced: 4.0 to 4.5
Advanced PLUS: 4.5 or higher
Clinics and Lessons
Elevate your skills through personalized clinics and lessons tailored for all levels. We even have Free Beginner Clinics.
Drop-in Drills
$15
These sessions focus on repeating key shots to reinforce what you’ve learned in clinics or lessons, training your body to act, not just react. Unlike clinics, Drop-in Drills emphasize hitting rather than instruction. In just 60-90 minutes, you’ll hit more balls than in months of regular play—boosting your skills faster!
Select Your Drill Type
Clinics
$25-$35
Are you a beginner and looking to get more comfortable on the court? Or maybe you’ve been playing for a while and want to enhance your skills? Regardless of your skill level, we have clinics designed for you! Some clinics include Mastering the Transition Zone, Dinking, Fast Hands, and Third Shot Drops. We have clinics for beginners, Intermediate and advanced players so you’ll always be joined by others at your level.
Select Your Coach
More Coaches Coming Soon!
Private Lessons
$80-$90
Are there areas of your game that you want to improve? Private lessons offer tailored coaching to address your specific needs. Sign up as individual or with a group of players with the same goals. Private lessons give you personalized attention and feedback, faster skill improvement, focused strategy development, and customized drills and exercises to help you achieve your goals.
Private Lessons coming soon...
FREE Beginner Clinics
We’re excited to offer FREE weekly Beginner Clinics for new pickleball players! In these two-hour sessions, our instructors cover all the basics, including serving, scoring, court positions, rules, dinking, paddle grip, and footwork. Paddles are available if you need one, and each player can attend up to two clinics. It’s the perfect introduction to the game—completely free!