Peak Pickleball to host USA Wheelchair National Championships in June

Peak Pickleball is about to give wheelchair pickleball its biggest indoor stage yet. The Colorado Springs facility, which spans 83,000 square feet and includes 24 courts, will host the USA Pickleball Wheelchair National Championships from June 19-21, a move that puts adaptive competition at the center of one of amateur pickleball’s larger venues.

USA Pickleball describes the three-day event as its premier national championship for wheelchair athletes in the United States. The field is expected to include singles, doubles and hybrid events, and the organization says it will welcome competitors from first-time tournament players to national champions. For the first time, the championship is also set to bring together athletes from across the country and around the world.

The setting matters. Scott Wilson, the owner of Peak Pickleball, said the facility was built with accessibility, community and high-level play in mind. That mission lines up with what the sport has been pushing toward for years: bigger, better-equipped venues that can handle elite adaptive events without treating them like an afterthought. USA Pickleball’s referee notice called the Colorado Springs stop its first wheelchair national championship event, another sign that the organization is giving the category a more formal national platform.

Wheelchair divisions only arrived at USA Pickleball’s national championships in 2024, when the Biofreeze USA Pickleball National Championships in Mesa, Arizona, opened the door to adaptive competition. Taylor Nichols made that debut count, winning wheelchair coed singles, coed doubles and hybrid doubles to complete the first adaptive Triple Crown. That milestone showed the category could deliver its own signature champions and not just fill out the schedule.

The scale has only grown since then. The 2025 USA Pickleball National Championships in San Diego drew close to 2,400 players across 287 divisions, underscoring how large the championship pipeline has become. For 2026, USA Pickleball expanded Path to Nationals with more Golden Ticket opportunities and Tiered Point System eligibility, broadening access to the sport’s biggest stage.

The wheelchair rules framework also reflects that push toward inclusion. USA Pickleball defines wheelchair players as people competing in wheelchairs, treats the chair as part of the body under adaptive rules and uses a two-bounce rule for wheelchair play. With Peak Pickleball hosting in June, those rules, those athletes and that format will get a showcase built for scale, visibility and serious competition.