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Nominees announced for 2024 Pickleball.com Mid-Season Awards
DALLAS, TX - The 2024 pickleball season has already been one to remember... and there's still more exciting action to come.
Now that we're at the halfway point, it's important to acknowledge the best-of-the-best that America's fastest-growing sport had to offer from January until now in a variety of different categories related to the PPA Tour, MLP and Pickleball Central.
With that in mind, we present the inaugural Pickleball.com Mid-Season Awards, which were voted on by UPA and PPA Inc. internal staff.
Good luck to all the candidates! The winners will be revealed later this week.
Here are the nominees:
Most improved (male)
Thomas Wilson
Dylan Frazier
Federico Staksrud
Hayden Patriquin
Pablo Tellez
Most improved (female)
Jorja Johnson
Tina Pisnik
Rachel Rohrabacher
Etta Wright
Parris Todd
Breakout player of the year (male)
Quang Duong
Jack Munro
Augie Ge
Gabe Tardio
Donald Young
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