CHPA News

 Presidents Pitch Hi All! I hope you are enjoying the start of our summer league and outdoor tournament season.  We have been using the new eshoes scoring program this past month and slowly we are working out some of the glitches. So, thanks to all of you for your patience.  I think this is a great tool! It allows the director to move around and also play.  Games are posted as soon as players approve the score.  Results can be printed immediately.  Scoresheets can be reviewed later to determine consecutive ringers or if a player wants to have a print out of their game. Most of all, NO MORE PRINTED SCORESHEETS !   If you are a tournament director and want to use the new scoring program, contact Jim Kenny with the NHPA and he will send you your login information.  You must be assigned to a tournament(s) by Scott Cline for Jim to give you access.  We have set-up instructions and you can contact Joe Rossi or myself if you have any questions....

  President’s Pitch Happy May Day! League season is finally here! Time to get your horseshoes cleaned and painted, or not! Good luck to all the pitchers participating in the 2026 CHPA State Walking Doubles. There will be twenty-two teams participating this year with two returning teams defending their titles. Ken and Amy – Championship Class, and Christina and Vicki – Class A. This is an official state tournament, NHPA rules will be followed. Lunch provided by the CHPA. CHPA Fundraising: The Extravaganza board will be making rounds this summer. A 50/50 raffle to help fund all state sponsored events. Drawing will be at the State Singles Tournament in August. Starting at the Doubles tournament we will be raffling off an All-in-One Computer. The same style that we raffled off at the 2025 State tournament. The computers were originally purchased by the CHPA to set up as monitors at Knaub arena but with the change of tournament software we no longer need them. Raffle tickets are $10 eac...

  President’s Pitch Is it spring or did we skip it and go straight to summer!  April Fools, winter is back, maybe,  it depends where you live. My advice is just stick your head out the door and see what’s happening.   It's that time again to prepare for summer leagues.  May is just around the corner and your league director is working on arranging court clean up and the summer pitching schedule.  Have you contacted your Club director yet?  Do you know if all your teammates are returning? Help the league directors out and contact them as soon as possible to see where you can help.   You can also find out what's going on with Colorado Horseshoes by attending the Annual CHPA membership meeting this Saturday April 4th. It will be held at the same location as last year. April 4, 2026 - 10:00AM - 12:00PM Arvada United Methodist Church Meeting room 205 6750 Carr Street Arvada, CO 80004 You are welcome to physically attend or sign up for virtual...

  Happy March Okay, I guess winter passed us by this year.  It feels like we should start playing outdoors.  Well, maybe not.  Hopefully spring will come in with some snow and rain.  We really could use it!. The CHPA State Singles Fundraiser had a great turn out. Monies raised will go directly to the CHPA State tournaments.   Thanks to all that participated. Our CHPA Members meeting is April 4th.  It will be held at the same location as last year. April 4, 2026 - 10:00AM - 12:00PM (pending confirmation) Arvada United Methodist Church Meeting room 205 6750 Carr Street Arvada, CO 80004 You are welcome to physically attend or sign up for virtual access.  We use google meets and will be administered by Lee Stevenson.  If you are interested please email him to receive an invite. I will post an agenda on the CHPA Calendar of events.   We will be discussing our State events, fundraising, promotions and any club issues that need to be addre...

President’s Pitch January started our year of pitching to a great start.  The New Years Doubles, Sheila Shepard Open and the President’s Open.  Looks like they had a great time.   February starts with Team Colorado. Currently there are  5 teams competing.  February 20 is the CHPA Fundraiser.  Last year’s fundraiser raised enough money to help with the 4 state events.  Monies were used for food, prizes and other miscellaneous expenses which occur when running a state event. For this tournament, trophies/prizes will be handed out instead of cash.  This is a sanctioned event so it will earn you a credit towards state and the World Tournament.  As I mentioned in last month’s DR I am forming committees to help promote and make our sport more enjoyable.  I have not had anyone volunteer to participate.  We need help! There are a handful of people that run our chapter and if we could get a few more it would help with expanding our spor...

  President’s Pitch Happy New Year! Another year of pitching shoes are in the books.  Let's look at 2026 to reach new goals and take the steps to making improvements to the game of horseshoes pitching! Improvements are being made at the National level with their website and newsletter improvements.  Another is the NHPA will be implementing a new member initiative program.  I do believe it will be similar to the referral program where they had a drawing for members that referred new members.  The drawing had a value of $350 which was won by 2 members last year.  So read the NHPA newline or digest to keep up with this program.  I will do my best to keep up with the latest news from the NHPA and pass it along to you.  Get the word out to those that don’t have access to the internet.   2025 membership only reached 190 pitchers.  This is the lowest in the past 12 years. 2020 had 169 but that was during COVID.  There were 36 new full...