USA Pickleball Creates Overland Park Open Tournament<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\nEstablished in 2019 as the first professional pickleball tour, and officially sanctioned by USA Pickleball, the APP Tour offers singles, doubles and mixed play, alongside amateur brackets, clinics and community events.<\/p>\n
“The APP is proud to set down roots in Overland Park in 2026, bringing three incredible world-class pickleball events to the city for all to enjoy,” said Ryan McSpadden<\/strong>, APP chief revenue officer. “Pickleball fans across the Midwest will see the world’s best pro players at our APP Tour event, the sport’s rising superstars at APP Next, and the nation’s top college teams battle it out at our collegiate qualifier event. With plenty of action in store, we’re pleased to have a terrific partnership with Visit OP to help make these events the best experience possible for both players and fans alike.”<\/p>\nThe APP estimates the event will attract 200 professional athletes and roughly 1,000 amateur players from across the United States. Similar tournaments in Overland Park in previous years resulted in more than $1 million in direct economic impact, according to Destination International’s event impact calculator.<\/p>\n
That past success inspired two years of discussions with APP to pair its tour with Overland Park and Bluhawk’s purpose-built facilities, benefiting the entire region.<\/p>\n
\u201cHosting major sports events provides a positive economic impact to local businesses and provides another opportunity to strengthen Overland Park as a place to visit, live and work,\u201d said Overland Park Mayor Curt Skoog<\/strong>. \u201cThis announcement is another example of Visit Overland Park’s continued success in securing Overland Park as a premier host of visitors and athletes.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Visit Overland Park and the Association of Pickleball Players have reached a five-year agreement that will bring an annual APP Tour to the Kansas destination starting in 2026. The APP Overland Park Open will be one of 12 stops on the national APP Tour, with the tournament staged at AdventHealth Sports Park at Bluhawk beginning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":74969,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2977,3581,4339],"tags":[14824,7116,11734],"class_list":["post-74968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-pickleball","category-recently-awarded","tag-app","tag-eric-olson","tag-visit-overland-park"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/sportstravelmagazine.com\/visit-overland-park-lands-5-year-app-pickleball-stop\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Visit Overland Park Lands 5-Year APP Pickleball Stop","url":"http:\/\/www.sportstravelmagazine.com\/visit-overland-park-lands-5-year-app-pickleball-stop\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.sportstravelmagazine.com\/visit-overland-park-lands-5-year-app-pickleball-stop\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/media.sportstravelmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/26102136\/blank-4-150x150.jpg","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https:\/\/media.sportstravelmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/26102136\/blank-4.jpg"},"articleSection":"Pickleball","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Jason Gewirtz"}],"creator":["Jason Gewirtz"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"SportsTravel","logo":"https:\/\/www.sportstravelmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/sportstravel-logo-simple-1.jpg"},"keywords":["app","eric olson","visit overland park"],"dateCreated":"2025-08-26T16:23:31Z","datePublished":"2025-08-26T16:23:31Z","dateModified":"2025-08-26T16:23:31Z"},"rendered":"