The Top Pickleball Player in Missouri is Only 22 Years Old

Dylan Frazier began playing pickleball when he was 14 while visiting family in Florida back in 2016. Almost nine years later the Ashland, Mo. kid who grew up loving baseball is the best pickleball player in the Show-Me State.

He turned pro in 2021 and has played across the country on the Pro Pickleball Tour winning medals in doubles play, and has also joined Major League Pickleball, a pro pickleball league, playing least season with the Orlando Squeeze.

Dylan did all this while still a student at Mizzou, and teaching pickleball to juniors and adults. I’m not sure when he slept, but he’s finishing up his senior year in Columbia as the 2025 MLP season is about to be served up starting in April.

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Major League Pickleball travels around city to city each weekend with all teams of six playing in each city tour style. The upcoming season starts in Orlando, Fla. Thursday Apr 24-27. And will make a stop in St. Louis at the Chaifetz Arena Thursday July 17-20.

As this game continues to grow the names of the elite professionals will filter first throughout the pickleball culture, then to other racket sports, followed by sports culture in general and finally into the minds of those who don’t even play the game.

The Pro Pickleball Tour will make stops this year in Springfield, Il. June 13-15, in Edwardsville, Il. August 1-3, and in Moline, Il. August 15-17

We’re at the beginning of this process/journey. The name to know when it comes to pickleball in Missouri today is Dylan Frazier.