New (and occasionally old) Pickleball players often wonder why they have to pay MTPA to play at the Nederland Community Center. The literal bottom line is because MTPA negotiates a lower cost to play at the NCC. Since Ken Adler brought the game to Nederland and, with the help of Charles Wood and others, painted the lines on the court and bought the nets and other equipment, a goal has been to keep the game affordable. When Pickleball joined forces with the Nederland Tennis Association a few years ago that goal became formalized when MTPA signed the first rental agreement.