Eleven pickleball courts popped up in the middle of the National Mall this week. For Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, it’s game on.
Capito is an honorary co-chair of the first-ever Congressional Pickleball Match and was charged with recruiting other lawmakers to compete. The West Virginia Republican helped start a bipartisan Senate pickleball caucus a couple of years ago and sees the sport as a way to bounce around ideas.
“I’ve played tennis my entire life, which is how I myself got into pickleball,” she said. “I find it’s an easy way to network or work across the aisle.”
