2026 MLP Draft presented by Skechers Coverage & Live Results
The 2026 MLP Draft presented by Skechers is taking place Friday, February 27, beginning at 10 a.m. ET. Tune-in to MLP’s YouTube and social channels for live results. Full team pick results and complete rosters will also be updated below. A draft recap and 2026 season preview show will air live on Pickleball TV on Sunday, March 1, at 12 p.m. ET. Re-airs will be available.
The 20 MLP teams will fill out their 2026 season rosters via a dynamic-bidding selection process, the same process used last year. Teams will bid for draft slots, then select from the pool of available players. There is no spending cap for the Drafts.
Teams will have rosters of six (three males, three females). On Feb. 15, all teams had to declare their player keepers – who were carried over from 2025 (there were some eligibility requirements) – and drop at least one player. A total of 54 players were kept and all kept players must slot into a team’s top four roster spots. All teams will have to fill out their first four (4) roster slots during the Draft before bench players are able to be selected.
A total of 66 selections will be made in the Draft (28 spots to fill out starting fours for all 20 teams, then 38 more picks to build out bench players).
2026 MLP Draft presented by Skechers pick results (refresh the page to see new results):
| # | Team | Player |
| 1 | St. Louis Shock | Anna Bright |
| 2 | New Jersey 5s | Jorja Johnson |
| 3 | Columbus Sliders | Dani-Elle Townsend |
| 4 | Texas Ranchers | Lea Jansen |
| 5 | Chicago Slice | Jamie Wei |
| 6 | Chicago Slice | Mariana Humberg |
| 7 | Brooklyn Pickleball Club | Dylan Frazier |
| 8 | Orlando Squeeze | Jack Sock |
| 9 | Utah Black Diamonds | Tama Shimabukuro |
| 10 | Phoenix Flames | Jonathan Truong |
| 11 | SoCal Hard Eights | Megan Dizon |
| 12 | Palm Beach Royals | Tyson McGuffin |
| 13 | SoCal Hard Eights | Cailyn Campbell |
| 14 | SoCal Hard Eights | Armaan Bhatia |
| 15 | California Black Bears | Kiora Kunimoto |
| 16 | Phoenix Flames | Camden Chaffin |
| 17 | SoCal Hard Eights | Will MacKinnon |
| 18 | Bay Area Breakers | Len Yang |
| 19 | Dallas Flash | Callie Smith |
| 20 | Atlanta Bouncers | Daria Walczak |
| 21 | Phoenix Flames | Judit Castillo |
| 22 | Texas Ranchers | Sahra Dennehy |
| 23 | Florida Smash | Genie Bouchard |
| 24 | California Black Bears | Chris Haworth |
| 25 | Miami Pickleball Club | Nico Acevedo |
| 26 | Bay Area Breakers | Ella Yeh |
| 27 | Miami Pickleball Club | Estee Widdershoven |
| 28 | California Black Bears | Mohamed Anouar Braham |
| 29 | St. Louis Shock | John Lucian Goins |
| 30 | St. Louis Shock | Elsie Hendershot |
| 31 | Las Vegas Night Owls | Braden Jacobson |
| 32 | Chicago Slice | Jalina Ingram |
| 33 | Texas Ranchers | Luca Mack |
| 34 | Atlanta Bouncers | Donald Young |
| 35 | California Black Bears | Michael Loyd |
| 36 | Los Angeles Mad Drops | Gabriel Joseph |
| 37 | California Black Bears | Emma Nelson |
| 38 | Phoenix Flames | Wyatt Stone |
| 39 | Utah Black Diamonds | Victoria Di Muzio |
| 40 | Orlando Squeeze | Alex Walker |
| 41 | Chicago Slice | Tom Protzek |
| 42 | Columbus Sliders | Alli Phillips |
| 43 | SoCal Hard Eights | Rafa Lenhard |
| 44 | Miami Pickleball Club | Clayton Powell |
| 45 | Brooklyn Pickleball Team | Matthew Barlow |
| 46 | Phoenix Flames | Alexa Schull |
| 47 | Florida Smash | Zoey Weil |
| 48 | Bay Area Breakers | Genie Erokhina |
| 49 | Bay Area Breakers | Luc Pham |
| 50 | Columbus Sliders | Alex Crum |
| 51 | Texas Ranchers | Ava Cavataio |
| 52 | Orlando Squeeze | Yates Johnson |
| 53 | Florida Smash | Chris Crouch |
| 54 | Miami Pickleball Club | Aiko Yoshitomi |
| 55 | SoCal Hard Eights | Naomi Phuong Nguyen |
| 56 | Dallas Flash | Ivan Jakovljevic |
| 57 | Dallas Flash | Samantha Parker |
| 58 | New Jersey 5s | Martin Emmrich |
| 59 | Utah Black Diamonds | Tyler Loong |
| 60 | Palm Beach Royals | Tammy Emmrich |
| 61 | Atlanta Bouncers | Keilly Ulery |
| 62 | Los Angeles Mad Drops | Paula Rives Palau |
| 63 | Palm Beach Royals | Grayson Goldin |
| 64 | New Jersey 5s | Lina Padegimaite |
| 65 | Carolina Hogs | Brandon French |
| 66 | Carolina Hogs | Isabella Dunlap |
Major League Pickleball team rosters, broken down by team:
| Team | Player | Acq. | Player | Acq. | Player | Acq. | Player | Acq. | Player | Acq. | Player | Acq. |
| Atlanta Bouncers | Kaitlyn Christian | Kept | Daria Walczak | Pick 20 | Keilly Ulery | Pick 61 | Jay Devilliers | Kept | Jaume Martinez Vich | Kept | Donald Young | Pick 34 |
| Bay Area Breakers | Mya Bui | Kept | Ella Yeh | Pick 26 | Genie Erokhina | Pick 48 | Pablo Tellez | Kept | Len Yang | Pick 18 | Luc Pham | Pick 49 |
| Brooklyn Pickleball Team | Rachel Rohrabacher | Kept | Jackie Kawamoto | Kept | Hannah Blatt | Kept | Riley Newman | Kept | Dylan Frazier | Pick 7 | Matthew Barlow | Pick 45 |
| California Black Bears | Layne Sleeth | Kept | Kiora Kunimoto | Pick 15 | Emma Nelson | Pick 37 | Chris Haworth | Kept | Mohamed Anouar Braham | Pick 28 | Michael Loyd | Pick 35 |
| Carolina Hogs | Ava Ignatowich | Kept | Angie Walker | Kept | Isabella Dunlap | Pick 66 | James Delgado | Kept | DJ Young | Kept | Brandon French | Pick 65 |
| Chicago Slice | Jamie Wei | Pick 5 | Mari Humberg | Pick 6 | Jalina Ingram | Pick 32 | Hunter Johnson | Kept | Zane Navratil | Kept | Tom Protzek | Pick 41 |
| Columbus Sliders | Parris Todd | Kept | Danni-Elle Townsend | Pick 3 | Alli Phillips | Pick 42 | Andrei Daescu | Kept | CJ Klinger | Kept | Alex Crum | Pick 50 |
| Dallas Flash | Hurricane Tyra Black | Kept | Callie Smith | Pick 19 | Samantha Parker | Pick 57 | JW Johnson | Kept | Augie Ge | Kept | Ivan Jakovljevic | Pick 56 |
| Florida Smash | Martina Frantova | Kept | Genie Bouchard | Pick 23 | Zoey Weil | Pick 47 | Cason Campbell | Kept | Travis Rettenmaier | Kept | Chris Crouch | Pick 53 |
| Las Vegas Night Owls | Brooke Buckner | Kept | Liz Truluck | Kept | Chao Yi Wang | Kept | Roscoe Bellamy | Kept | Blaine Hovenier | Kept | Braden Jacobson | Pick 31 |
| Los Angeles Mad Drops | Catherine Parenteau | Kept | Jade Kawamoto | Kept | Paula Rives Palau | Pick 62 | Ben Johns | Kept | Max Freeman | Kept | Gabriel Joseph | Pick 36 |
| Miami Pickleball Club | Alix Truong | Kept | Estee Widdershoven | Pick 27 | Aiko Yoshitomi | Pick 54 | Yuta Funemizu | Kept | Nico Acevedo | Pick 25 | Clayton Powell | Pick 44 |
| New Jersey 5s | Anna Leigh Waters | Kept | Jorja Johnson | Pick 2 | Lina Padegimaite | Pick 64 | Noe Khlif | Kept | Will Howells | Kept | Martin Emmrich | Pick 58 |
| Orlando Squeeze | Lacey Schneemann | Kept | Milan Rane | Kept | Alex Walker | Pick 40 | Federico Staksrud | Kept | Jack Sock | Pick 8 | Yates Johnson | Pick 52 |
| Palm Beach Royals | Sofia Sewing | Kept | Tina Pisnik | Kept | Tammy Emmrich | Pick 60 | Dekel Bar | Kept | Tyson McGuffin | Pick 12 | Grayson Goldin | Pick 63 |
| Phoenix Flames | Jessie Irvine | Kept | Judit Castillo | Pick 21 | Alexa Schull | Pick 46 | Jonathan Truong | Pick 10 | Camden Chaffin | Pick 16 | Wyatt Stone | Pick 38 |
| SoCal Hard Eights | Meghan Dizon | Pick 11 | Cailyn Campbell | Pick 13 | Naomi Phuong Nguyen | Pick 55 | Armaan Bhatia | Pick 14 | Will MacKinnon | Pick 17 | Rafa Lenhard | Pick 43 |
| St. Louis Shock | Kate Fahey | Kept | Anna Bright | Pick 1 | Elsie Hendershot | Pick 30 | Hayden Patriquin | Kept | Gabe Tardio | Kept | John Lucian Goins | Pick 29 |
| Texas Ranchers | Lea Jansen | Pick 4 | Sahra Dennehy | Pick 22 | Ava Cavataio | Pick 51 | Christian Alshon | Kept | Eric Oncins | Kept | Luca Mack | Pick 33 |
| Utah Black Diamonds | Etta Tuionetoa | Kept | Allyce Jones | Keep | Victoria Di Muzio | Pick 39 | Connor Garnett | Kept | Tama Shimabukuro | Pick 9 | Tyler Loong | Pick 59 |
Check out the latest edition of Inside MLP to get an overview of the new rules, preview for every team’s pre-draft roster, get ready for live Draft coverage on YouTube and the recap Draft show on Sunday, March 1 at 12 p.m ET on Pickleball TV.
The 2026 MLP season schedule will begin in Dallas, TX, May 22-25. Tickets are available now via Tixr, with the exception of St. Louis and the regular season finale at ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex at Walt Disney World, which will be available exclusively through Ticketmaster.