Brooklyn Pickleball Team
Finished 5 · 78 pts · Semifinal
Brooklyn Pickleball Team finished 5 in the 2026 regular season on 78 standings points and made the 12-team playoff. Here is the roster as the season ended, the draft class that built it, and every trade and waiver move in between — reconciled from the league’s own transaction logs.
How the season ended
Lost in the semifinals. Beat SoCal 2–0 in Round 1, then Columbus in a three-match quarterfinal (3–2, 3–2, 3–1) — the longest series of the playoffs. Lost 2–0 to New Jersey in the semifinal, 6–0 in games.
Roster at season’s end
| Player | Tour ranking | 2026 season |
|---|---|---|
| Christian Alshon | Men’s doubles #6 · 2038 Mixed #5 · 2204 | 77.7% from 112 matches gender doubles 27-8 · mixed 33-8 · singles 27-9 |
| Rachel Rohrabacher | Women’s doubles #10 · 2117 Mixed #11 · 2026 | 73.6% from 72 matches gender doubles 28-10 · mixed 25-9 |
| Jackie Kawamoto | Women’s doubles #5 · 2183 Mixed #29 · 1864 | 71.4% from 21 matches gender doubles 10-3 · mixed 5-3 |
| Chris Haworth | Outside the top 100 | 70.6% from 68 matches gender doubles 5-7 · mixed 3-8 · singles 40-5 |
| Riley Newman | Men’s doubles #13 · 1941 Mixed #16 · 1988 | 50.0% from 28 matches gender doubles 6-7 · mixed 8-7 |
| Hannah Blatt | Outside the top 100 | 15.0% from 20 matches gender doubles 0-6 · mixed 1-5 · singles 2-6 |
How a matchup is played
Every MLP match is four games in a fixed order — women’s doubles, men’s doubles, then two mixed doubles — each to 11, win by two, and all four are played even when the match is already decided, because point differential decides seeding. New for 2026: there are no starters and subs. A team may use all six players in one match, and may field a different man for men’s doubles than for mixed. Doubles lineups are submitted the night before. At 2–2 it goes to a DreamBreaker — singles, any four from the roster, two men and two women, chosen only after the fourth game, with the home team declaring first.
This is one of four teams whose pairing records were published during the 2026 playoffs. Regular-season records, before the playoffs began:
| Game | Pairing | W–L | Win % |
|---|---|---|---|
| Women’s doubles | Kawamoto & Rachel Rohrabacher | 12–5 | 71% |
| Men’s doubles | Christian Alshon & Riley Newman | 22–4 | 85% |
| Mixed | Christian Alshon & Rachel Rohrabacher | 20–5 | 80% |
| Mixed | Riley Newman & Kawamoto | 13–8 | 62% |
Where these numbers come from. Rankings and ELO are PickleWave’s per-discipline model, captured 4 September 2026 — an independent rating built from professional match results, not an official tour ranking, and its leaderboards run 100 deep per discipline. Mixed doubles is a single combined pool of men and women, so a rank there is not a rank among men or among women. Season records cover all professional play in 2026 — PPA, APP and MLP combined — not MLP alone. Pairing records, where shown, were published by The Kitchen in August 2026 with statistics credited to PickleKey.com. The roster reconciliation is our own work from the league’s draft results and transaction logs. Pickleball Insiders is not affiliated with Major League Pickleball.
How the roster was built
MLP’s 2026 draft was a live auction — teams bid for each selection slot, so there was no preset pick order. Teams could protect up to five players at the keeper deadline on 15 February; 54 players were kept across the league, and the remaining 66 slots were filled at the draft on 27 February.
Kept (4): Rachel Rohrabacher · Jackie Kawamoto · Hannah Blatt · Riley Newman
Drafted (2):
| Pick | Player | Reported bid |
|---|---|---|
| 7 | Dylan Frazier | $170,000 |
| 45 | Matthew Barlow | — |
Transactions
| Date | In | Out | From / to |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 3 | Christian Alshon | Texas Ranchers | |
| Mar 3 | Luca Mack | Texas Ranchers | |
| Mar 3 | Dylan Frazier | Texas Ranchers | |
| Mar 3 | Matthew Barlow | Texas Ranchers | |
| Mar 4 | Chris Haworth | California Black Bears | |
| Mar 4 | Luca Mack | California Black Bears |
February post-draft roster: Rachel Rohrabacher · Jackie Kawamoto · Hannah Blatt · Riley Newman · Dylan Frazier · Matthew Barlow
More: all 20 team rosters · the 2026 draft · season and calendar · pro coverage
About this page. Pickleball Insiders is an independent publication, not affiliated with, endorsed by or authorised by Major League Pickleball or any team or player named here. The roster is reconstructed from the league’s published draft, trade and waiver records applied in date order; where those records do not balance we say so rather than smoothing it over. A best reading of the public record, not an official roster document. Corrections welcome and made in place. Contact · How we work