Racquetball is a fast game that emphasizes footwork, quickness, accuracy and court awareness. The sport features both individual play, as well as “Doubles” and “Mixed Doubles” teams.
This sport develops speed, endurance and tremendous hand/eye coordination. Team members will see improvement in their fundamentals, and will grow self- esteem and accomplishment by learning and rapidly improving their game. Our team will be focusing on proper swing fundamentals and footwork, which translate very well to other sports such as baseball, lacrosse and golf.
The Lincoln team is coming off a fantastic 2009-10 season in which we placed 3rd as a team in Oregon, and 5th as a team at HS Nationals ! Lincoln senior Dylan Reid was Oregon HS State Champion, and came in 2nd at HS Nationals.
Following are details for the 2010-11 Lincoln High School Racquetball season:
- Season runs from mid-October 2010 – February 2011
- 3 Practices per week starting October 10
- Practices held at Multnomah Athletic Club (you don’t need to be a MAC member)
- 4 League Tournaments, held once a month on Saturdays at various Portland/Salem area racquetball clubs
- State HS Championship held end of January
- National HS Championship held end of February (in St. Louis, MO)
Some Oregon racquetball “did you knows”:
- Last year 450 Oregon high school kids played racquetball on 63 high school teams, representing 26 different high schools.
- Oregon high school teams have won National titles the past 11 years, including Sprague in 2008 - 2010, Beaverton the previous 2 years, and Catlin Gabel the two years before that.
- Oregon State University won the National Racquetball Team Title at Collegiate Nationals in Arizona in 2010, 2009, 2008 and 2006, beating out teams such as Alabama, Colorado State,Texas, Oregon.
- Former Oregon junior racquetball stars now playing baseball at a high level include Trevor Crowe (2005 Pac-10 Player of Year, playing for Cleveland Indians), and Joey Lakowske (2007 OSU baseball team).
