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FAU Wins APP Collegiate Pickleball Title Over Utah Tech in Cape Coral

The three-day event capped the APP’s collegiate season with 40 regional qualifiers competing for a $50,000 purse.

Overview

  • Florida Atlantic clinched the team championship 3–1, dropping women’s doubles 15–9 before taking men’s doubles 17–15 and sealing two mixed doubles 15–9 and 15–11.
  • The victory marked FAU’s first APP collegiate championship.
  • The tournament ran March 6–8 at The Courts in Cape Coral, Florida, with pool play setting seeds for the elimination rounds.
  • Individual winners included FAU’s Alec LaMacchio in men’s singles and, with Jayden Broderick, in men’s doubles, while Florida State’s Tate Keber won women’s singles.
  • Utah Tech finished runner-up in the team event but captured women’s doubles through Lauren Mercado and Mary Monson and mixed doubles through Mary Monson and Liam Duffin.