Pickleball

Sources Disagree

One date is published two different ways

Both published versions are shown with the page each came from. The paper does not pick between them — the governing body settles it.

Not Yet Confirmed

3 parts of the Pickleball year are still unsourced

These are gaps, not blanks. Each names what is missing and who would confirm it. Nothing is estimated to fill the shape of the table above.

Season window

The recognised international governing body for pickleball (the International Pickleball Federation and World Pickleball Federation are competing claimants) and its official URL — USA Pickleball's international department would confirm. USA Pickleball

Championship

The 2027 USA Pickleball Nationals dates and host — USA Pickleball would confirm. USA Pickleball Nationals site · Nationals daily schedule

Olympic and major games

Any confirmed multi-sport-games inclusion, for example Asian Games or World Games, with an official programme citation — the relevant international federation once identified would confirm. LA28 Games Plan

Around The Season

High school

Not an NFHS sport; pickleball is absent from the NFHS list of sanctioned activities and sports. A parallel high-school pathway is run by DUPR, whose 2025-26 season put high-school doubles divisions alongside collegiate Super Regionals - Virginia 7 February, Indiana 21 February, California 7 March, Georgia 28 March 2026 - culminating in the first-ever High School National Championship on 11 April 2026. This is a spring-peaking calendar from February to April, not a state-association season. NFHS Activities & Sports

College

Not an NCAA sport; pickleball appears in neither the NCAA championship future-dates schedule nor the emerging-sports-for-women list. Collegiate competition is run by the College Pickleball Tour, operated with DUPR: Super Regionals December to March, then The Nationals 9-12 April 2026 in Atlanta. The APP runs its own collegiate track with series stops in January and February and the APP U.S. Collegiate Championships 6-8 March 2026 in Cape Coral, Florida, plus a Selkirk U.S. Collegiate Series inside USA Pickleball Nationals on 31 October to 1 November 2026. NCAA Future Dates Summary

Olympic and major games

Not on the LA28 Olympic or Paralympic programme; pickleball appears on neither list. LA28 Games Plan

Club, youth and academy

Amateur play is organised through USA Pickleball's Path to Nationals: a 2026 Golden Ticket series of more than 16 qualifying tournaments from January to July that grant priority registration for the November National Championships, running Glendale 21-25 January; Daytona Beach and Las Vegas 18-22 February; Boise and Fort Lauderdale 25-29 March; San Diego 22-26 April; Sacramento 29 April to 3 May; Newport Beach 13-17 May; Virginia Beach 27-31 May; Wayne, New Jersey 3-7 June; Cincinnati 10-14 June; Colorado Springs 24-28 June; Seattle 8-12 July; Chicago 22-26 July. Junior doubles and singles open the Nationals on 31 October to 1 November 2026. The Wheelchair National Championships ran 19-21 June 2026 in Colorado Springs, and April is National Pickleball Month, the sport's main participation and clinic push. There is no tryout-and-offseason model; entry is by registration.

Busiest months

January, April, May, October, November

Where results come from

PPA Tour schedule and resultsPickleballTournaments.comUSA Pickleball newsUSA Pickleball Nationals siteDUPR

Results data · Published but human-readable only, and fragmented across competing organisers. The PPA publishes its full schedule and point values as web pages, draws and results sit on the tournament-management platform, USA Pickleball publishes its own calendars and championship schedules, and college and high-school results are reported through DUPR and specialist blogs. No single central structured feed exists, and some live coverage is on subscription broadcast platforms.