11/03/2026
Wow! What an incredible first year for the Phoenix Firebirds!! Unforgettable moments. With 3 teams, 27 players, and 13 subs, our Firebird organization has so much to be proud of in our inaugural season augural season in the MLP Champion Series Pickleball. Running a new professional sports team on a relatively new tour definitely has a huge learning curve. With a roller coaster ride of experiences and emotions. So much accomplished tho where do we begin! Let’s see between 16 team dinners, 125 lunches, 3 transport vans and beefed up suburban driving players around to courts and dinners and pickup players from airports, singing songs and sharing laughs! All the 10s of 1000s of text messages, phone calls, emails, and conversations, coaching, practices, spreadsheets, strategizing, social media posts, drafting detailed schedules for players, paddle testing, setting up clinics for our top pros during the PHX event. What an amazing adventure!!❤️🙏🏻 We are grateful for every moment. And as a new team- we took great pride and privilege in supporting our players dreams as much as allowed financial and otherwise. And it was our pure joy 🫶🏻 Congratulations to the season winners Palm Beach Royals for premier, Suncoast Pelicans for Masters, and Austin Ignite for Prime 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼 well done. Our Premier team ended highest rank with a successful championship beating Coachella and Austin Ignite moving us into 9th place of 16. Top of the bottom half. Masters team ended with a successful championship as well moving into 5th place of 9 beating LA Extreme and Austin Ignite. This team definitely had the most fun😊 Prime team ended 9th of 12 heading into championship beating Columbus Hotshots in a great dreambreaker to end with an awesome smile. Thank you to all our players for playing with us, all your great efforts, the laughs, the tears, the cheers, the hugs, the shrugs, and just breaking bread with us getting to know each other on and off the courts.
