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List Of Racquetball Players
This is a list of notable racquetball players. Racquetball players are presumed to be notable under the following criteria. :1. The player has finished a season ranked in the top 10 of the men’s or women’s pro tours (i.e., the International Racquetball Tour or Ladies Professional Racquetball Tour). :2. The player has represented their country at an open level international event (e.g., the Racquetball World Championships, Pan American Racquetball Championships, Pan American Games The Pan American Games (also known colloquially as the Pan Am Games) is a continental multi-sport event in the Americas featuring summer sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The competition is held ..., etc.) :3. The player is a member of thUSA Racquetball Hall of Fame. Male Female References {{Reflist Racquetball players * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Notability (sports)
Notability is the property of being worthy of notice, having fame, or being considered to be of a high degree of interest, significance, or distinction. It also refers to the capacity to be such. Persons who are notable due to public responsibility, accomplishments, or, even, mere participation in the celebrity industry are said to have a public profile. The concept arises in the philosophy of aesthetics regarding aesthetic appraisal.Aesthetic Appraisal', Philosophy (1975), 50: 189–204, Evan Simpson There are criticisms of art galleries determining monetary valuation, or valuation so as to determine what or what not to display, being based on notability of the artist, rather than inherent quality of the art work. Notability arises in decisions on coverage questions in journalism. Marketers and newspapers may try to create notability to create celebrity, Celebrity, fame, or wikt:notoriety, notoriety, or to increase sales, as in the yellow press. The privileged class are somet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Crowther
Chris Crowther (born November 6, 1978) is a professional racquetball player. Crowther was the #5 player on the International Racquetball Tour at the end of the 2010–11 season, which was a career high and the sixth season he'd finished in the IRT's top 10 players. A California native, Crowther is the tallest player on the IRT and known for his strong drive serve and hard hitting playing style. Professional career Crowther played his first IRT match in May 1997, losing to Cliff Swain in three games, he wasn't full-time until the 2001–02 season, when he played the US Open for the first time, making it to the Round of 16, when he again lost to Swain. Crowther made the finals of an IRT event for the first time in September 2010 at the Cali Colombia Grand Slam event, losing to Kane Waselenchuk in four games. Crowther made his second final in October 2011 at the Red Swaine Shootout in Davison, Michigan, again losing to Waselenchuk. International career Crowther has represe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steven 'Bo' Keeley
Steven Bo Keeley is an American adventurer, naturalist, Holistic health, holistic healer, veterinarian, professional athlete, commodity market consultant, garage publisher, and executive tour guide, who in 2000 left civilization for a desert burrow in southern California, then, in 2009, became a world-traveling expatriate. Early life Keeley grew up in Idaho and Michigan, and graduated in 1972 with a Doctor of veterinary medicine, DVM from Michigan State University (MSU). His father was an electrical and later nuclear engineer, and mother a Welcome Wagon activist as the family moved through fifteen cities in as many years to settle in Jackson, Michigan. Steven Keeley won the Jackson Junior Chess Championship, and, at MSU, multiple intramural sports championships for Farmhouse fraternity to place them first in the all-fraternity competition for the first time in 100 years. After veterinary school he moved to California where a bureaucratic licensing issue caused him to seek a sport ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coby Iwaasa
Coby Iwaasa (born June 19, 1996) is a Canadian racquetball player. He is the 2022 Pan American Champion in Men's Doubles (with Samuel Murray), and was a bronze medalist at the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto. Junior years Iwaasa was a prodigious player as a junior, winning several Canadian Junior National Championships (Junior Nationals), including four Boy's U18 titles, which is a record. In Boys' Singles, he won U10 in 2007, Boy's U12 in 2009, and Boy's U14 in 2011. In 2012 and 2013, Iwaasa won both Boy's U16 and Boy's U18 at Junior Nationals. He also won Boy's U18 in his last two years of eligibility: 2014 and 2015. In those last two years he also won Boy's U18 Doubles: with Matthew Swaine in 2014 and with Nicolas Bousquet in 2015. At thInternational Racquetball FederationWorld Junior Championships, Iwaasa finished 3rd in U14 in 2010 and 2011, 1st in U16 in 2012, and 3rd in 2013 in U16 and 3rd in U18 in 2014. He also played doubles at World Juniors finishing 3rd in U14 w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Egan Inoue
Egan Inoue ( ja, イーゲン井上, born June 4, 1965) is a Brazilian jiu-jitsu practitioner, former mixed martial artist and racquetball competitor. A two-time International Racquetball Federation (IRF) World Champion, Inoue is a two-time Brazilian jiu-jitsu world champion in colored belts, the first non-Brazilian to win a gold medal at the World Jiu Jitsu Championship. Early life Egan Inoue was born on 4 June 1965, in Honolulu, Hawaii, in a family of Japanese descent. He started practicing Shotokan Karate from a young age taught by his grandfather. He would later take up Wing Chun Kung Fu, Taekwondo, Judo, Hapkido, and Jujutsu. At 16 he started practicing racquetball becoming state champion by the time he turned 18. Racquetball career Inoue played professional racquetball on the International Racquetball Tour, winning two tournaments, and finishing in the top 10 ranked players four times: 1986–87 to 1988–89 and 1990–91. His record on the IRT is 84–63. Inoue bri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Huczek
Jack Huczek (born January 13, 1983) is a retired American racquetball player. Huczek was a 3 timInternational Racquetball Federation (IRF)World Champion in Men's Singles, and he was the #1 International Racquetball Tour (IRT) player at the end of the 2006–2007 season. Huczek announced his retirement on May 24, 2011. Junior years Huczek played a lot of racquetball as a junior, and his record as a junior player is unparalleled. He waUSA Racquetball(USAR) Junior Champion twelve consecutive years, winning 13 titles in that period. Huczek's streak began in 1991, when he won Boy's U8 for the first time. Huczek then won U10 twice, followed by two titles in U12 in 1995 and 1996, two in U14 in 1997 and 1998, two in U16 in 1999 and 2000, and three in U18: 2000, 2001, 2002 – U18. Across that period, Huczek was also a champion in Boys' Doubles. He won U10 Doubles with Andrew Mead in 1993. He won U12 Doubles in 1995 with Matthew McElhiney and in 1996 with Cory Martin. Huczek and Shane Van ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marty Hogan (racquetball)
Marty Hogan (born January 22, 1958 in St. Louis, Missouri) is a former American racquetball player who won more than 100 international or national titles and six U.S. national championships during his 14-year career. Hogan was ranked either number one or number two in the world from 1976 to 1990. Early years He was born in St. Louis, Missouri, where he was taught to play racquetball by his mother, Goldie. He graduated from Ladue Horton Watkins High School in 1976. In 1975, Hogan won the United States Racquetball Association Junior Racquetball Championship. While still a teenager, Hogan relocated to San Diego, California, in order to pursue professional racquetball. He eventually attended San Diego State University. Hogan is credited with revolutionizing the game of racquetball, with a serve that drove the ball as fast as 142 miles per hour. This speed measurement is a reference to the ball speed after hitting the front wall and then bouncing as it returned. He won the U.S. indo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andy Hawthorne (racquetball)
Andy Hawthorne is a professional racquetball player (born September 7, 1982). Hawthorne finished #6 on thInternational Racquetball Tour (IRT)at the end of the 2010-11 season, a career high and the fourth season he'd finished in the IRT's top 10 players. Primarily a drive serving player, Hawthorne also has a very "scrappy" game style. Professional career Hawthorne began playing the IRT full-time in the 2004-05 season, when he played 9 of the 12 events and reached the quarter-finals twice. Since then Hawthorne hasn't missed a tournament, reaching the quarter-finals 28 times but only once advancing to the semi-finals, which was at the Kansas City Pro-Am in September 2011, when he lost to Kane Waselenchuk in three games. International career Hawthorne has been on Team USA at three international events. He and Jason Samora were silver medalists in doubles at the 2007 Pan American Championships in Chile, losing to Canadians Vincent Gagnon and François Viens in the final. In hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sherman Greenfeld
Sherman Greenfeld (born June 3, 1962) is a former Canadian professional racquetball player from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Greenfeld won two World Championships and 10 Canadian Championships, and was one of the top racquetball players in Canada during the 1980s and 1990s. Greenfeld retired from national competitions in 1999 following the Pan American Games in Winnipeg. Early life Greenfeld was born in Winnipeg into a Jewish family. International career Greenfeld won more international championships for Canada than any other player. He was thInternational Racquetball FederationWorld Champion in 1994 and 1998, and won the Pan American Racquetball Championships (then the Tournament of the Americas) three times, in 1990, 1994, and 1998. Greenfeld was silver medalist at the 1999 Pan American Championships, his penultimate tournament for Canada, losing to fellow Canadian Mike Green in the final. Greenfeld also earned bronze medals in the 1995 Pan American Games and 1993 World Games. Gre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Green (racquetball)
Mike Green (born August 22, 1973) is a Canadian retired racquetball player from Burlington, Ontario. Green set the record for Men's Singles Canadian Championships at 11 in 2017, which broke a tie he had with Sherman Greenfeld. He also won 10 Men's Doubles Canadian Championships, and together those 21 Canadian titles are the most for a Canadian man. Professional career Green's career high professional ranking was 8th at the end of the 2003-04 International Racquetball Tour (IRT) season. Green's ranking is the second highest ever by a Canadian player behind Samuel Murray and Kane Waselenchuk. Green has reached the semi-finals of IRT Tier 1 or Grand Slam events seven times, and those all occurred over the four season period from 2000-01 to 2003-04, when he was playing most of the IRT tournaments. Since then he has only played a few tournaments each season and not gotten past the Round of 16. International career Green has made 28 appearances on Team Canada beginning in 1996, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan Felipe Gomez
Juan Felipe Gomez (born June 7, 1977) is a retired Colombian Racquetball Racquetball is a racquet sport and a team sport played with a hollow rubber ball on an indoor or outdoor court. Joseph Sobek invented the modern sport of racquetball in 1950, adding a stringed racquet to paddleball in order to increase velo ... player. Gomez won gold at the 1995 South American Championship in Men's Singles. He was ranked Colombian #1 player for a decade, from 1992 to 2002. Gomez was also Junior National Champion and doubles National Champion representing Colombia in various IRF - International Racquetball Federation events such as South American and Pan American Games and the World Racquetball Championships. Medal record / Men's racquetball Representing Colombia World Championships; Quarter Finals - Singles 1998 Pan American Championships; Semi Final - Singles 1996 South American Championships; Gold Medal - 1995 and Silver Medal - 1993 Bolivarian Games; Silver medal – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vincent Gagnon
Vincent Gagnon (born September 5, 1981) is a Canadian retired racquetball player from Montreal. Gagnon won five Canadian Championships: four doubles titles and one singles. He also competed for Canada 19 times, winning multiple medals highlighted by gold at the 2007 Pan American Championships in Men's Doubles with François Viens. Junior Years Gagnon began playing racquetball at 9, and was introduced to it by his father Michel Gagnon, who was his coach throughout his career – and is one oRacquetball Canada'sNational Team coaches. Although introduced to the sport early, Gagnon's success as a junior didn't come until his late teens when he won three consecutive Canadian Junior Championships. The first was in Boy's U16 Singles in 1998, and then in Boy's U18 Doubles with Jean-Philippe Morin in 1999, and finally in Boy's U18 Singles in 2000, which was his last year of juniors. Racquetball career Career begins (2001–2006) Gagnon won the National Team Doubles Selection Event ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
