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  "path": "/2026/05/02/entire-pickleball-team-killed-plane-crash-way-tournament-28209335/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-05-02T16:59:05.000Z",
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  "textContent": "The aircraft, which was carrying five people including the Amarillo Pickleball Club, killed everyone on board (Picture: AP)\n\nAn entire pickleball team has been killed in plane crash on their way to a tournament.\n\nThe aircraft, which was carrying five people including the Amarillo Pickleball Club, killed everyone on board after it crashed in Wimberly, southwest of Austin, Texas.\n\nSgt. Billy Ray said: ‘The pilot and four passengers on board were pronounced deceased on scene.’\n\nThe pickleball club confirmed the passengers were members of the team flying to a tournament at Cranky Pickle in New Braunfels.\n\nThe victims were later named as Seren Wilson, Brooke Skypala, Stacy Hedrick, Glenn Appling, and Hayden Dillard.\n\nMartin Robertson, head pro at the venue, said they have cancelled the tournament and plan to say a prayer before they start Saturday and honor the players who died.\n\nA crashed Cessna airplane is seen in a wooded area on Round Rock Road in Wimberley, Texas (Picture: AP)\n\nSeren Wilson was the youngest victim of the crash\n\n‘We’re very heavy hearted, heartbroken from this,’ he said.\n\n‘The pickleball community is very tight knit. Everybody knows everybody.’\n\nDan Dyer, president of the Amarillo **Pickleball** Club, said he’d played many games with four of the five people who were killed.\n\n“I’ve handed them medals. They were excellent players. They were out to win some games,’ Dyer said.\n\n**Brooke Skypala, right, was one of the five people killed in the crash**\n\nGlenn Appling (left) and Hayden Dillard (right) were killed in the crash\n\n‘Every weekend there are dozens of tournaments. Some people get the bug; others don’t. But once they do, they’ll travel for a tournament.’\n\nStacey Rohr, who lives nearby, said she was in bed when she heard a crash and ‘felt everything vibrate’.\n\n‘It was so close I felt like it was the back of my place up in flames,’ said Rohr, who immediately called her landlord.\n\nComment now Comments \nAdd Metro as a Preferred Source on Google\nAdd as preferred source\n",
  "title": "Entire pickleball team killed in plane crash on way to tournament"
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