Racquetball Ambassador

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Are you involved in Racquetball?
Do you play multiple times a week, or run a league, or coordinate tournaments, or teach?
Are you willing to talk to new people about the game?

USA Racquetball has a program to help you with your goal of growing the sport!

Ambassador Program

USA Racquetball has created an Ambassador Program targeted toward developing relationships with players in health clubs, fitness centers, schools and universities. The goal is to provide a focal point within the facility as an avenue for passing information from USA Racquetball to the general racquetball public. An Ambassador is usually someone who is at the club 3-4 times per
week and does not mind talking with people about the game of racquetball.

USAR Ambassador Program PDF

Victories At The United Healthcare US OPEN Racquetball Championships

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Seven hundred and twenty five racquetball players gathered in Minneapolis, Minnesota for the 21st annual United Healthcare US OPEN Racquetball Championships. The players entered eighty nine different divisions, which included options for playing based on skill level, age, age and skill level, doubles, mixed doubles, and more.  Twenty three racquetball players that lived in Georgia at the beginning of the year (one moved to Florida over the summer) represented at the event and earned the respect of their peers!

The Georgia Racquetball Players Association would like to congratulate all of our players representing at the event and would particularly like to congratulate those that took home medals for their efforts.

Gold medals

Felicia Green: Women’s Singles – A
Emmalie Kernan: Women’s Age Singles – 24- B
Maurice Miller & Marquis Miller: Men’s Doubles Open
Robin Whitmire: Women’s Age Singles – 55+

Finalists

Antonio Delgado: Men’s Heroes Singles (Public Service) – B
Donna Jones & Marsha Johnson: Women’s Doubles – B
Jim Voss: Men’s Age Singles – 55+ C
Robin Whitmire & Cindy Tilbury: Women’s Doubles – 55+
David Wolfson & Sal Perconti: Men’s Doubles – 65+

Semifinalists

Matt Fontana: Men’s Age Singles – 40+
Matt Fontana: Men’s Age Singles – 45+
Felicia Green & Kanesha Madison: Women’s Doubles – WO/ED
Donna Jones: Women’s Singles – B
Marsha Johnson: Women’s Age Singles – 45+ A
Maurice Miller: Men’s Age Singles – 24-
Michael Miller Jr.: Men’s Age Singles – 35+ A
John Wilson & Andrew Blasquez: Men’s Doubles – C

Newly Certified Referee just in time for the US Open!

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The Georgia Racquetball Players Association is proud to congratulate our newest USA Racquetball certified referee, Marquis Miller!

Information (and a website walkthrough) about how to become a certified referee online is available here:  http://jt-rb.com/how-to-become-a-certified-racquetball-referee-online/

In the picture below, he was commentating for the LPRT Sweet Caroline Open tournament. Keep adding to those skills Marquis!

Marquis Miller Commentating for the LPRT

One day singles shootout at UGA this Saturday

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The UGA Racquetball Club will be hosting a one day singles shootout this Saturday from 5pm-9pm at the UGA Ramsey Student Center. Who will be the Top Dawg on campus? Club players and non-club players are welcome to enter. Come hangout with the club team and see what competitive racquetball has to offer! To sign up send us a message with your full name so we can enter you in the bracket. (This is a non-sanctioned event).

Follow the UGA Racquetball Club on Facebook.

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2016 World Racquetball Tour Atlanta Open

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The 2016 World Racquetball Tour Atlanta Open completed this weekend. Eighty three players gathered from five different countries and seven different US states to play the best racquetball in the area.

Congratulations to all of our winners!

WRT Singles: Andre Parilla

Men’s Open: Shane Karmelin
Men’s Elite: Erick Perez
Men’s A: Russell Scott
Men’s B: Efrain Rivera
Men’s C: Avinash Lavu

Women’s Open: Cristina Amaya
Women’s A: Emmalie Kernan

WRT Doubles: Andre Parilla and Bobby Horn

Men’s Elite Doubles: Erick Perez and Billy Cannon
Men’s A Doubles: Lugene Jackson and Erick Perez
Men’s B Doubles: Julio Fuentes and Sergio Clemente

Mixed Open Doubles: Rafael Filippini and Cristina Amaya
Mixed A Doubles: Emmalie Kernan and Russell Scott
Mixed B Doubles: Andrea Rocha and JT

Centurion Open Doubles: Rhett Rainey and Randy Pores

You can review the backgrounds and social media feeds of the pros that attended here:
http://jt-rb.com/thewrtiscoming/

We would also like to thank the event sponsors without whom the event could not have taken place:

Grace Warrior Ministries
Fish Strike Force Belize
Recreation ATL
Reaching Your Dream Foundation
Gearbox Sports
World Racquetball Tour
JT Racquetball