Serve for Strength

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After life-changing bone surgeries, Valerie Simon is the Bionic Girl. She chose purpose over pain. Raising money through community events.

The Serve For Strength Foundation was born out of the hope that we can help others get back on their feet.

11/07/2026

Golf tips for Girls :

Hold your club like you’re holding a baby bird. You’ll improve your swing.

11/03/2026

I watched my daughter go from top in Florida to a wheelchair, and nobody could tell us why.

Valerie was a nationally ranked junior tennis player with a real plan for her future. Then doctors missed it. Seven MRIs, misread, one after another. By the time anyone caught it, she needed four titanium rods in both ankles & we thank Mark Drakos MD Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) for saving our daughter.

There is nothing harder than watching your child hurt and not being able to fix it. I sat through the appointments, the recovery, the months where tennis was gone and she didn’t know who she was without it. I felt helpless more days than I can count.

What brought her back wasn’t a new diagnosis. It was a pickleball paddle I handed her, just so she could move again.

Watching that turn into her comeback was one thing. Watching her turn it into Serve for Strength was another. We built it to fund the kind of medical research and technology that gets a family an answer faster than we got ours.

Empower Pickleball just told our story. Swipe through it, then read the rest. Link in our bio.

If it moves you the way it moves me, serveforstrength.org/donate funds medical research for the next family going through what we went through.

11/02/2026

Want to hit the Anna Leigh Waters LOB SERVE?

This serve can catch your opponents off guard and push them deep behind the baseline! Here’s how to do it:

🔥 Step 1: Stand about 3 feet behind the baseline to give yourself room.

🔥 Step 2: Drop your paddle below your waist and get UNDER the ball to create that upward lift.

🔥 Step 3: Aim for HEIGHT and DEPTH! You want the ball traveling high and landing deep in your opponent’s court.

🔥 Step 4: Get ready for the return and prepare for the next shot.

PRO TIP: It’s not just about hitting it high. Depth is what makes this serve effective! A short lob serve can turn into an easy attack for your opponent.

Would you try this serve in a tournament ?

SAVE this for your next practice session! 💪

11/01/2026

Vampire Golf Tips….

10/31/2026

Happy Halloween !!

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Saint Pete Beach, FL

Website

https://linktr.ee/serveforstrength

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