{"id":10521,"date":"2024-09-13T13:10:41","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T18:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/?p=10521"},"modified":"2024-09-13T13:10:41","modified_gmt":"2024-09-13T18:10:41","slug":"mu-senior-is-top-ranked-pickleball-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/2024\/09\/13\/mu-senior-is-top-ranked-pickleball-player\/","title":{"rendered":"MU senior is top-ranked pickleball player"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/09\/Frazier-Choi-rotated-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/09\/Frazier-Choi-rotated-1.jpg\" alt=\"Dylan Frazier and President Choi\" class=\"wp-image-10522\" style=\"width:225px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/09\/Frazier-Choi-rotated-1.jpg 480w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/09\/Frazier-Choi-rotated-1-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Dylan Frazier and President Choi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Did you know that one of the world\u2019s best pickleball players is also a Mizzou Tiger?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dylan Frazier has played pickleball since he was 14 and is currently the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.komu.com\/olympics\/mid-missouri_olympic_originals\/ashland-native-dylan-frazier-is-the-no-1-pickleball-player-in-the-world\/article_07a9c072-50cb-11ef-9f18-238acdd14f8a.html\">#1 ranked player in men\u2019s doubles<\/a>. He turned pro shortly before arriving to Mizzou in 2020 and is now a senior majoring in business administration with a 4.0 GPA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I enjoyed meeting with Dylan and hearing more about his many accomplishments on the court, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/09\/Frazier-2-edited.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"779\" height=\"1168\" src=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/09\/Frazier-2-edited.jpg\" alt=\"Dylan Frazier playing pickleball\" class=\"wp-image-10530\" style=\"width:225px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/09\/Frazier-2-edited.jpg 779w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/09\/Frazier-2-edited-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/09\/Frazier-2-edited-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/09\/Frazier-2-edited-768x1152.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 779px) 100vw, 779px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Photo courtesy of Dylan Frazier<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u2022<\/strong>&nbsp;Winning the 2024 U.S. Open Men\u2019s Double Championship in Naples, Florida<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u2022<\/strong>&nbsp;Achieving a top 10 ranking in singles<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u2022<\/strong>&nbsp;Earning gold at the PPA Masters in Palm Springs, California in January and silver at the Las Vegas Pickleball Cup earlier this month<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u2022<\/strong>&nbsp;Receiving 15+ medals (and counting) this year alone<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We also discussed the concept of the game, its popularity and Dylan\u2019s path to becoming a champion. I want to congratulate Dylan on his success and for being a great representative of Mizzou!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014 Mun<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dylan Frazier has played pickleball since he was 14 and is currently the #1 ranked player in men\u2019s doubles. He turned pro shortly before arriving to Mizzou in 2020 and is now a senior majoring in business administration with a 4.0 GPA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}