Minor League Pickleball @ ACE Pickleball Club ~ Fort Wayne, Indiana

The future of pickleball is NOW: Minor League Pickleball is sweeping the nation with its innovative, fun and social amateur MLPlay™ Team Event.

FORMAT

Minor League PIckleball is an innovative team competition where teams of 4 players (2 women and 2 men) compete against each other in an engaging format, with twists on traditional match-ups and scoring for games, matches, and tiebreakers. Teams compete against each other in Matches using the MLPlay™ format:

MLPlay™ is an ingenious gameplay format that brings men and women together on a level playing court. In the MLPlay™ format team matches are composed of four 21-point games, one women’s doubles, a men’s doubles, and the final two games consisting of mixed doubles.

If both teams are tied at 2-2 after the 4 games are played, they’ll go to a Dreambreaker™! In a Dreambreaker™ one person from each team plays singles against the other team’s player, switching players every four rallies until someone gets to 21 and wins by two points.

To sign up for any Minor League event, a DUPR account is required at the time of registration. Not rated players can play; however, their estimated rating will be verified by the tournament director. All players must join the ACE Pickleball Club – Fort Wayne DUPR Digital Club via their DUPR app. SWISH App download with DUPR linked is also required. 

Join ACE Pickleball Club – Fort Wayne DUPR Digital Club: click here

Cancellation Deadline
To receive a refund, cancellation must be received by end of day Wednesday, February 21st, 2024.

Single Registrations
If you are registering as a single registration but are already part of a team, please notate Team Name AND the DUPR Division. For example, “Mad Drops – 18.”
If you want to play in the Minor League event but are unable to form a team, the tournament director will do their best to place you on a team. For players that are not placed, thus not playing the event, their registration fees will be refunded.

Substitute Players
A team that needs a player substitute must submit the substitute to the tournament director. Substitute player’s DUPR may not cause the established team’s aggregate to go over max event’s aggregate.

Schedule ~ Saturday, March 2, 2024
Event starts at 8:00am, specific Division start times TBA

DUPR Divisions
DUPR 20 (Minimum team’s aggregate DUPR is 18.31, maximum 20.99)
DUPR 18 (The team’s aggregate DUPR must not exceed 18.30)
DUPR 16 (The team’s aggregate DUPR must not exceed 16.30)
DUPR 14 (The team’s aggregate DUPR must not exceed 14.30)
*Ratings are “locked in” at time of registration. A player’s DUPR increasing or decreasing after registering does not impact their team’s total aggregate.

ACE Pickleball Member Special!
Members Save $30 off the Registration Fee!!! 
Members get exclusive pre-registration!
ACE Pickleball Member Fee: $60 per player
Non-Member Fee: $90 per player

Latest Update : 02/29/2024

Single Registrations
1. Dean Stanley
2. Chris Webb

DUPR 14
Fort Dinkers
1. Lemuel Barrido
2. Averno Johnston
3. Sudhakar Krishnan
4. Belinda Justus

The Granite Hoosiers
1. Alan Fecteau
2. Tina Fecteau
3. Chris Fecteau
4. Aura Day

Kitchen Krew
1. Gina Fairchild
2. Bryan Fairchild
3. Grace Fairchild
4. Nicholas Shane

S.L.A.M.
1. Alison Rhinehart
2. Luke de Castro
3. Mark Perry
4. Shelby Lamm

Dinktastic
1. Jason Thompson
2. Amy Thompson
3. Camden Thompson
4. Maddelyn Christman

Goulash
1. Janet Moore
2. Jody Saylor
3. Jeffrey Yarnelle
4. Tyler Sipe

No Big Dill
1. TK Herman
2. Jill Herman
3. Chet Kitch
4. Karrie Kitch

Name TBD
1. Lisa Wood
2. Leola Thomas
3. Chuck Korensky
4. Juwan Turner

DUPR 16
Mid-Court Crisis
1. Chris Chapman
2. Mason Chapman
3. Brittany Leonard
4. Katelynn Tingley

Barely Legal
1. Sanjiv Aggarwal
2. Lisa Morlan
3. David Welter
4. Jean Heffron

The Real Dill
1. Dan McGuire
2. Catherine McGuire
3. Cynthia Bolinger
4. Shane Schroeder

Super DUPRs
1. Jill Dmyszewicz
2. Dustin Matthews
3. Melissa Prows
4. Kaleb Lee

PIckleball Chicanery
1. Amy Smith
2. Joel Fillman
3. Doug Johnson
4. Jane Meehan

The Pickle
1. Rich Youngerman
2. Jamie Duncan
3. Kirk Yager
4. Karen Koester

Pickled Dink
1. Lisa Coy
2. Neil Straley
3. Adriana Brown
4. Jeff Terrill

Pulled it Together
1. Claire Smith
2. Kathy Lentz
3. Will Stanley
4. Brad Foster

Indiana Acers
1. Cole Wieland
2. Aiden Thompson
3. Lauren Korte
4. Lisa Korte

Slam Dink
1. Tucker Foote
2. Ash Singh
3. Dawn Horan
4. Anita Yoder

DUPR 18
Anita Max Wynn
1. Richard Wang
2. Max Fusselman
3. Megan Schilt
4. Elaina Schilt

Pickled Pepples
1. Matt Carpenter
2. Katherine Zuk
3. Kelsey Pepple
4. Luke Pepple

Heavy Dinkers
1. Eric May
2. Kevin Reed
3. Toni Widman
4. Donna Bates

Dink It
1. Jason Herberger
2. Vindhya Veerula
3. Jon Howard
4. Tara Landis

Dink Dynasty
1. Samantha Herald
2. Heather Clark
3. Shaun Dmyszewicz
4. Cagney Sheehan

The Zippy Zingers
1. Darin Archbold
2. Stephanie Troyer
3. Robert Powell
4. Amy Powell

Smash and Bash
1. James Bayer
2. Teri Huffman
3. Marc Schwier
4. Laura Gillespie

Last Minute Scrubs
1. Marcus Woodhouse
2. Amber Illingsworth
3. Alex Shelley
4. Lori Price

DUPR 20
Lund Crew
1. Matt Lund
2. Stephanie Lund
3. Adalyn Lund
4. Christian Lund

The Gritty Shins
1. Matt Brandenberger
2. Abby Brandenberger
3. Josh Walker
4. Alaina Keller

Day Dinkers
1. Troy Wieland
2. Natasha Nuerge
3. Sarah Rahrig
4. Jeff Coil

Servivors
1. James Tapley
2. Haley Jamison
3. Jessica Jones
4. Tyler Denbo