DUPR Blog | DUPR Collegiate Pickleball: The Fall Semester Finale

Collegiate picklers, listen up: this fall semester, collegiate pickleball is coming to you!

So if this summer you’ve been practicing your dink shots, lobs, and overhead slams, why not sign up for a DUPR Collegiate Pickleball event in your area and take a shot at gaining eternal glory and winning some bonus scholarship money?

We are excited to kick off the fall semester at DUPR, and put on five more Regionals and the 2nd Collegiate National Championship (CNC)! Detailed in this article is updated information about bids, CNC registration, our new club guide, and the remaining Regionals.

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As of October 17th, 2023: These are the 36 schools that have obtained a bid to CNC:

- Clemson

- JMU

- Utah Tech

- GCU

- Michigan

- UW-W

- UNC

- TCU

- Florida

- UVA

- NC State

- Maryland

- Ohio State

- MS State

- Texas A&M

- Utah State

- CU-Boulder

- Utah Valley

- UofU

- FSU

- UT Austin

- FAU

- Georiga

- Miami (FL)

- UNF

- Auburn

- Indiana

- Miami (OH)

- Virginia Tech

- Villanova

- GCSU

- Arizona St.

- Iowa

- Duke

- KSU

- UConn

In order to participate in the Team Bracket in the Collegiate National Championship on November 17-19, 2023 a program must meet these two requirements:

Obtain a bid
Attend at least one Collegiate Regional

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Your school can bring players to participate in the Challenger Bracket without having a bid. A bid is only required to play in the Team Bracket. All players in all brackets must be taking at least 6 credit hours at the school they are representing.

As a reminder, there are 36 bids to be given out. 10 more bids will be given out at the remaining Regionals (2 at each Regional). The remaining 9 bids will be decided by the DUPR Collegiate Advisory Committee.

Here main the factors we are considering for these bids (this is not an exhaustive list):

How many collegiate regionals a program has attended
How many events a program has run on their DUPR Digital Club
How many dual matches against other schools a program has played
How many members are in their DUPR Digital Club

Collegiate Pickleball Players Holding DUPR Banner

Collegiate Pickleball National Championship Registration

Registration for the CNC is now live! Here is the link to the event on DUPR.

In order to make registration as smooth as possible, here is the link to the CNC Registration Guide outlining all of the necessary information.

Listed below are the high-level bullet points from the guide:

Dates: November 17-November 19, 2023
Registration Deadline: October 17, midnight EDT
Address: 6350 Courtside Dr NW, Peachtree Corners, GA 30092
Entry Fee: $75 per player for the Team Bracket, $25 per player for the Challenger Bracket

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Collegiate National Championship Scholarship Money

For the team bracket, money is awarded based on how far your team advances.

Play-ins $500 (x4) $2000

Quarterfinals $1000 (x4) $4000

Semifinals $2500 (x2) $5000

Runner-Up $5000 (x1) $5000

Champion $15,000 (x1) $15,000

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Total $31,000

This year, there will also be prizes for the challenger bracket!

$1000 will go to the college that brings the most challenger bracket teams
$1000 will go to the college that wins the most challenger bracket games
Prizes for the winning team of each bracket

Club Guide

DUPR is committed to supporting the growth and development of pickleball programs at colleges across the country. In order to help these clubs, we have created the DUPR Collegiate Pickleball Club Guide, which is a 15+ page document on everything you need to know to run a pickleball club. Here is the link to the club guide. If you have any questions about the contents of the club guide, or about starting a pickleball club at your school, you can email us at college@mydupr.com.