Category: Player Spotlight

Paola & Rocky shine in the Pros while, Taylor, Lexi & Jordan shine in the amateurs!!!! What can I say? This has been a VERY busy month for me coaching as ALL of my athletes on my “Championship Racquetball Team” shined: Rocky Carson makes 2 semi-finals in a row in his IRT Pro Stops. Paola Longoria is 2 for 2 in her 2 LPRT Pro Stops 1st place victories. Taylor Knoth won the 2013 Northwest Regional Championships in the Men’s Open Division. Lexi York won the 2013 Northwest Regional Championships in the Women’s Open Division.  Jordan Cooperider won the 2013

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5 “Championship Racquetball Team Members” ….5 WINS!!!!!! What can I say? This has been a VERY busy month for me coaching as ALL of my athletes on my “Championship Racquetball Team” shined: Rocky Carson won the Mile High Pro-Am 2 weekS ago in Denver, Colorado. Paola Longoria won the Pan American Championships in Singles this past weekend in Cali, Columbia. Taylor Knoth won the 2013 National Intercollegiate Championship in Singles, Doubles and the Team 2 weeks ago in Tempe, AZ. Sharon Jackson won the Pan American Championships in Doubles this past weekend in Cali, Columbia. Lexi York won the 2013

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When Paola Longoria, the #1 Women's Professional Player, stepped on the court in Overland Park, Kansas on February 24th for the Championship Final of the 2013 Winter Classic over the weekend, it had been 1 year, 9 months and 23 days since she lost a match on the Ladies Professional Racquetball Tour (LPRT). That’s 665 consecutive days since Paola did not come away the victor. No matter how you calculate it, it has been a very, very long time. And the result in Overland Park was the same as the previous 16 LPRT events with Paola winning yet another title

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Paola has extended her undefeated streak of matches won on the Ladies Professional Racquetball Tour (LPRT) into another calendar year by winning in Cincinnati, OH this past weekend, January 25-27. Longoria’s last loss on the LPRT was in May 2011. With her win at this weekend’s “Tour of Hope” event in Cincinnati she has yet to lose a match in 20 months. The San Luis Potosi, Mexico native now holds a streak of 14 LPRT Tier 1 events won in a row. Add in two smaller satellite events and Paola has won 16 professional tournaments in a row and has won 65 consecutive professional matches. During

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Rocky had a great start to the 2nd half of the season...2 tournaments and 2 finals. He had one win and one 2nd, to Kane. I know being home for the holidays and getting time with the family and time to rest was a key component in such a strong start. The first weekend in January, Rocky was in his home town of So. CA and performed well, beating Alvaro Beltran in the semi finals in a tie-breaker to advance to the finals. When he showed up on Sunday to play the finals against Kane he showed up to play.

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Rocky walked away with the first ROLLOUT New Jersey Open Championship by beating Alvaro Beltran in an exciting 5 game match....7, 3, (5), (9), 8. It was a white knuckle match for me, the coach, because Rocky won the first 2 games and he was in complete control of the match and looked  like he'd win it in 3 games.  The champion that Alvaro is, dug deep and pulled out the next 2 games bringing it to a 5th and deciding game. It was back and forth until Rocky went up to a 7-3 lead, but then Alvaro had some

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Fran Davis & HEAD/Penn CONGRATULATES Paola! Paola has now won 13 consecutive LPRT Tier 1 Events. Without dropping a single game, Paola Longoria cruised through the draw at the Ladies Professional Racquetball Tour’s (LPRT) 2012 Christmas Classic at the Crystal Gateway Sport & Health Club in Arlington, Virginia. The tournament victory pushes Longoria’s undefeated streak of matches played in LPRT events to 61. Her string of LPRT Tier 1 events now stands at 13, only a few tournaments shy of Michelle Gould’s streak of 16 events from 1994 to 1997. During the 18 month stretch of undefeated play on the LPRT, Paola

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First off I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving surrounded by lots of family/friends and love/warmth. Secondly....What a GREAT November it was for my "Championship Team". Paola Longoria won BOTH LPRT Tier 1 pro-stops, November 2-4, at Albierto Mexicano de Racquetas, in Toluca, MX and November 16-18, at the Washington Athletic Club, in Seattle, WA to keep her undefeated record alive at 38-0 since the 2011 season began. She is by far the most dominant player on tour right now beating everyone she comes up against-Rhonda Rajsich in MX in 3 games straight and Adrienne Fisher in WA, also in

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Rocky and Paola enter their 1st Pro Stop of the season and they BOTH make it to the finals of their respective IRT and LPRT events. Rocky played in the IRT Pro Stop in KS, September 13-16, and played well. He was moving well, serving  consistently, returned serves brilliantly and was very mentally tough. He played Shane Vanderson in the quarter finals and won 3-0; Jose Rojas in the semi finals and beat him 3-1;  Kane Wasenlunchuk in the finals and lost 3-1. Rocky had Kane on the ropes, 8-4, in the third game after tieing up the match 1 game a

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