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Abstract: The unprecedented increase in popularity of pickleball has driven Whispering Hills’ Animal Shelter to consider offering a pickleball tournament to raise funds to repair the shelter’s air conditioner. In this teaching case, students engage with a simulated client requirements interview process to design and develop a database system for a pickleball tournament fundraiser. This immersive approach allows students to practice eliciting and documenting system needs and requirements for an event management system, focusing on players, teams, and volunteers. The case can be used in a systems analysis and design or database development course. Multiple assignment options are provided allowing instructors to select an assignment based upon course material coverage. Suggested assignments include the development of process modeling diagrams such as data flow and swim lane diagrams, database design diagrams such as UML diagrams or ERDs, and database artifacts such as tables, queries, and reports.

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Recommended Citation: Schwieger, D., (2026). Paddles for Paws: Development of a Pickleball Tournament Event Management Database for a Cool Cause. Information Systems Education Journal 24(3) pp 62-74. https://doi.org/10.62273/KLUJ1122