Denver Pickleball Players Appeal to Parks and Rec

Hollynd Hoskins, the attorney who represented 71-year-old “Mayor of Pickleball” Arslan Guney after he was criminally charged for drawing pickleball guide boxes on courts at the Central Park Rec Center, has filed an administrative appeal to the Denver Parks & Recreation Advisory Board over its “arbitrary and capricious actions, directives, orders and public notices” regarding the sport.

Although Hoskins isn’t one of the regulars at Congress Park, she’s played pickleball before. So when Parks & Recreation recently shut down the courts at Congress Park for good, scrapping plans to move the courts away from neighbors who’d been complaining about noise, she sprang into action.

Hoskins requested public records from both Parks & Recreation and the Denver Department of Public Health &…