The Arkansas Tech University Office of Campus Recreation will host an ATU Family Day pickleball tournament on Saturday, Sept. 19, at the Clary Pickleball Courts and the Campus Recreation Center at Ferguson Student Union.
The format will be doubles. For the 2026 tournament, each team must include a current ATU student and an adult family member (not a sibling). Team members will remain set for the length of the tournament.
There is a two-game guarantee in pool play. The top six teams will advance to the finals bracket.
Pool play will begin at 9 a.m. It is estimated that bracket play, which will be single elimination, will begin at 1 p.m.
Registration and more information is available at https://forms.cloud.microsoft/r/N9SHjDR6sr.
For more details, contact Pete Kelly, ATU director of campus recreation, at pkelly@atu.edu.
ATU Family Day 2026 activities will continue on Saturday, Sept. 19, with a 5-kilometer run/walk beginning at 10:30 a.m. on Mullens Plaza at Ferguson Student Union, tailgating on Centennial Plaza beginning at 3 p.m. and a football game between the Arkansas Tech Wonder Boys and the Ouachita Baptist Tigers at 6 p.m. at Simmons Bank Field at Thone Stadium.
Learn more at www.atu.edu/parents/familyday.php.
