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VOL. 18 NO. 11 www.seabreezepublications.com NOVEMBER 2024

NFL Hall of Famers Boca Raton Wins National

Anthony Muñoz, Demarcus Pickleball League Championship

Ware, Morten Andersen Join one of the hotbeds of the
Boca Raton, known as

Pro Football Hall of Fame pickleball craze that has
™
taken the country by storm
over the past several years,
Invitational at Broken Sound now has its first national
professional sports title in
the fastest-growing sport
26 Football Legends, 78 PGA TOUR Champions in the U.S.
To Tee Off at Club’s Legendary Old Course The Boca Raton
Last month’s issue of Boca Club News reported that NFL Hall of Famers Warren Sapp, Picklers of the National
Ronde Barber and Dwight Freeney will be participating in the inaugural James Hardie Pro Pickleball League, a
Football Hall of Fame Invitational Tournament March 31st to April 6th, 2025, at Broken professional league for
Sound Club’s iconic Old Course. A new announcement has added three more NFL Hall of players ages 50+, won the
Famers to the event: Anthony Muñoz, Demarcus Ware and Morten Andersen. season championship on
October 20th in Cincinnati,
NFL Hall of Famers on page 6 Ohio. After winning the The champion “Boca Raton Picklers”
regular season title with a
16-4 record and earning the #1 seed in the playoffs, the Boca team, one of 12 teams nationally,
defeated the #4 seed Denver Iconics (featuring former Florida Gator and Heisman Trophy
winner Danny Wuerffel) in the semifinals, and the #2 seed Columbus Hotshots in the finals.
The Boca team earned more than $60,000 in prize money over the course of the season.
The Picklers team is owned by Boca residents, including Rick Retamar and Carl Foster,
and features several local players, among them co-captain Mircea Morariu, Susie Leblang
and Broken Sound member Brian Levine. Levine, a former partner at Goldman Sachs, has
fully pivoted to pickleball competing at the Senior Pro level. He is also captain of the Maccabi
U.S.A. Pickleball team that will be playing in Israel next summer, and last year served as
CEO of Major League Pickleball.

Boca Raton Wins on page 3
Anthony Munoz Demarcus Ware Morten Andersen
Spanish River Concerts Celebrate the Season with

Announces 2025 Schedule a Night of Holiday Pops At

of Performances and Events Mizner Park Amphitheater

Spanish River Concerts December 7th
has announced its 2025 series
of four concerts and three The City of
events that offer music lovers Boca Raton has
a variety of opportunities to announced that
experience excellence in live tickets are now on
musical performances. All sale for the Holiday
will take place in Spanish Pops concert, a
River Church auditorium, sparkling new
a beautiful, acoustically addition to the
engineered venue in Boca “Jolly Days” line-
Raton, where the orchestra has up. The Symphonia,
presented its concerts for more conducted by the
than 20 years. visionary Jacomo
Bairos and joined by
Spanish River Concerts Announces on page 3 the Florida Atlantic
University Chorus,
will bring musical
magic and holiday classics to the Mizner Park Amphitheater on Saturday, December 7th
at 7 p.m.

Celebrate the Season on page 3

FAU’s 5th Annual CAST Party to Present
“Great American Songbook” — See page 4