The Villages Recreation & Clubs
If you are not a golfer there are hundreds of other activities from which to choose. There are over 50 recreation centers in the community run by The Villages Recreation Department. Activities include tennis, horseshoes, corn hole toss, platform tennis, archery, air gun range, volleyball, croquet, shuffleboard, bocce, basketball, swimming, and of course pickle ball. If you do not know about pickle ball, you will when you move to The Villages. Pickle ball is a time honored tradition in The Villages.
With over 100 pickle ball courts, Villagers can play year-round, attend clinics and participate in tournaments. In addition to these activities, there are over 1800 organized clubs to join in The Villages. These include bird watching, card playing, archery, Kiwanis, computers, billiards and a wine club to name just a few.
Clubs and Organizations
Do you know the number one resident’s group and website for The Villages, Florida? The Talk of The Villages forum, of course. Basically all Villagers have been on this particular site one time or another as it has everything you need. On the third Friday of the month, many meet for lunch. They always talk about it in advance on the forum. Interesting facts there are over 133 men’s softball teams, 15 ladies teams, and 68 co-ed teams competing in 17 leagues over three seasons. The Villages has 216 softball teams (2,592 players) playing 164 games per week and approximately 2,296 games for the Winter season which is the busiest. Softball totals are over 555 teams (6,660 players) playing approximately 5,572 total games over 3 seasons.
The two largest recreation events in The Villages each year are Camp Villages with over 7000 Villagers and grandchildren participating (watch for information this month about events starting this summer), and the Senior Games, just completed, where Villagers competed in multiple events in sixteen different sports ranging from Bocce to Basketball, Archery to Volleyball. 1,417 athletes participated in one or more events in this year ’s Senior Games in The Villages, totaling 2,796 entries in all 16 sports. 157 athletes (11%) of the athletes participated in more than half of the events in this year’s Senior Games in The Villages.
The sport with the most participants in this year ’s Senior Games was pickle ball with 433 athletes, edging out the second place sport which was swimming with 426 athletes. Six Senior Games sports do not involve a ball – archery, badminton, horseshoes, shuffleboard, swimming, and track (excluding eld events). More than 100 tennis courts Over 100 pickle ball courts Two sand Volley Ball Court Two sets of platform Tennis Courts (12 total courts) – the only platform tennis courts in FL. The Villages has its own Polo stadium with three level stadium resides on an elevated berm and Polo leagues [ *Developer owned, not a resident amenity ]