Showcasing Croquet in the US

In this Croquet News (2024 Vol 4) you will enjoy significant content featuring the 2024 WCF GC World Championship. This is the first of three World Championships that the USCA is hosting in the next 12 months. Next year, we will host the 2025 U21 World GC in April in Venice, Fla., and the 2025 World AC Championship in October in West Palm Beach, Fla. The dedication of the tournament planning committee over the last year and the tremendous volunteer and official teams assembled on-site for the two-week event the bar has indeed set a high bar.

On behalf of the USCA membership I would like to thank Bev Cardo and Michael Albert (Event CoChairs / Tournament Managers), Jeff Soo (Tournament Director), Cheryl Bromley (Tournament Referee), Tom Cooper (Marketing), Dylan Goodwin (Media) and Russ Dilley (Live Streaming / YouTube) for their outstanding dedication, professionalism, along with their teams of USCA volunteers that welcomed players from 17 countries around the world and provided this festival of the game we all enjoy.

These events are only possible with the substantial support of our sponsors: Oakley Woods Croquet — Don Oakley, PFC Mallets —Peter Coles, White Tie Croquet —Vicki Johnson, and generous financial support from Freer Pollard, Bev and Randy Cardo, Chris and Gail Barley and Priscilla Flowers.

If you could not attend the event please take advantage of viewing some of the elite play and informative commentary on the USCA YouTube channel – “rdilley USCA Croquet.”

All of those mentioned in the paragraphs above made your USCA look very good. When you see them please take a moment and personally thank them.

Our goal was to showcase “Croquet in the U.S.,” give broad exposure for as many USCA members as possible to the elite levels of play to aid our domestic development, and contribute internationally to the global croquet community and the World Croquet Federation (the USCA is a founding member of the WCF). These items were achieved but the excitement of having Blake Fields become the youngest ever and third consecutive U.S. World GC Champion would normally be associated with a “Once upon a time” opening sentence and was beyond all expectations. We are thrilled for Blake and all USCA participants.

We are achieving many good things. Thank you for your support through your USCA membership. Invite your friends to enjoy this fun game and join the USCA. It is through building our membership that we can meet our mission of promoting and developing this great game.

Damon Bidencope

Proud USCA Member / USCA President President@croquetamerica.com / www.croquetamerica.com