Jarick Rager
Curtis Jarick Rager is vice-president of KeySys Consulting and a promoter of the sport of pickleball.
Rager earned his bachelor of science in textile management and technology at Auburn University in 1992, and a master's in textile science at Auburn in 1994.
From 1998 to 2014 Rager was president of VirtuGolf which provided golf simulators for special events and instruction. He joined KeySys in 2007.
Rager and his brother were introduced to pickleball while visiting his parents in a retirement community near Nashville, Tennessee in 2012. He became an active promoter for the sport, lobbying for the development of public courts, holding introductory community classes, and serving as an ambassador for the United States Pickleball Association.
Rager developed the smartphone apps "PickleUp" and "PickleballStat" to help players find matches and keep track of their performance. He served as on-site operations coordinator for the 2021 and 2022 USA Pickleball National Indoor Championships hosted at Hoover's Finley Center. His newest company, Picketech, furnishes portable scoreboards for pickleball tournaments.
References
- Townsend, Stacie (May 2018) "The Pickler I Met: Jarick Rager – The Progressive Pickler." The Pickler
- Parrish, Karen (July/August 2022) "USA Pickleball National Indoor Championships." Pickleball