Category: Player Spotlight

Lombard, IL. – November 19th, 2018 Paola Longoria, the No. 1 ranked female racquetball player in the World, continued her dominance of the Ladies Professional Racquetball Tour (LPRT) by winning the Women’s Professional Singles and Doubles divisions at the Glass Court Turkey Shoot tournament outside Chicago. Paola’s win in the Women’s Professional Singles Division at the Turkey Shoot becomes her 92nd tournament victory of her professional career. On the current season, Longoria is a perfect 17 – 0 in singles matches. Since she first played on the LPRT in 2003, Paola has won 419 matches and lost just 30 for

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Minneapolis, Minnesota – October 7th, 2018 At the largest and most prestigious tournament of the year, HEAD Penn’s Paola Longoria cemented her status as the best female racquetball player in the world! Paola dominated the Women’s Professional Singles draw at the UnitedHeathcare US OPEN Racquetball Championships by dropping just one game on her way to her ninth US OPEN title. The appearance in the US OPEN singles final for Paola was her 11th consecutive and won eight out of nine in a row.  Longoria has now won 84 Ladies Professional Racquetball Tour (LPRT) events in her career, a tournament winning

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San Luis Potosi, Mexico – August 26th, 2018 Paola Longoria, who has held a firm grip as the No. 1 ranked racquetball player in the World for the last seven years, began the 2018-19 season with her eyes set on an overall 10th Ladies Professional Racquetball Tour (LPRT) title. The new season kicked off in Mexico at an event named after Longoria, which is fitting for her near decade of racquetball dominance. At her namesake ‘Paola Longoria Experience’ tournament in her hometown of San Luis Potosi, Paola won both the Women’s Professional Singles and Doubles Divisions. Paola’s road to the

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Brings home a Silver Medal from the XIX World Championships in San Jose, Costa Rica Laurel, Maryland – September 16th, 2018 Last spring, HEAD Penn’s Rocky Carson finished the season on the International Racquetball Tour (IRT) as the No. 1 ranked player in the World. As he opened the current 2018-2019 IRT Season in Maryland, Rocky was looking to place a firm grip on the title of “Best Player in the World”. Rocky won four matches en route to his 26th career tournament title in winning the Men’s Professional Singles Division at the Maryland & Washington D.C. Season Opener Pro

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Barranquilla, Colombia – July 28, 2018 Paola Longoria from HEAD Penn’s Professional Playing Team earned top finishes in the racquetball competition at the 2018 Central American & Caribbean Games by winning 3 Gold Medals. The 23rd edition of the games featured 5,854 athletes from 37 countries competing in 450 events. Paola Longoria, No. 1 ranked LPRT female player in the world, playing for her home country of Mexico, won Gold Medals in the Women’s Singles Division, Women’s Doubles Division, with her partner Samantha Salas, and in the Women’s Team competition at the Central American & Caribbean Games. [caption id="attachment_7934" align="alignnone"

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Seattle, Washington – Summer 2018 For just the second time in racquetball history, the top ranked players on the Men’s & Women’s Professional Racquetball Tours were coached by the same great racquetball mind. Fran Davis coached Rocky Carson to his outstanding year as the #1 ranked Professional on the International Racquetball Tour (IRT) while at the same time helping Paola Longoria to her dominating season as the #1 ranked Professional on the Ladies Professional Racquetball Tour (LPRT). Fran Davis is racquetball’s most renowned clinician and coach. She has coached junior players to nearly 50 gold and silver medals at the

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Sarasota, Florida – April 29th 2018 By reaching the semifinals of the last event on the 2017-2018 International Racquetball Tour (IRT), HEAD Penn’s Rocky Carson captured the top spot in the season-long rankings race. Rocky, who can now be crowned with the title of the No. 1 Player in the World, also won the Year End IRT Title in 2008. Carson didn’t win an event during the current season, however it was his consistency in reaching tournament finals that propelled him in the rankings. Of the 11 IRT tournaments he played in this season, Rocky reached finals five times and

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San Luis Potosi, Mexico – June 3, 2018 HEAD Penn’s Paola Longoria, the No. 1 ranked player in the world, won the “Campeonato Nacional Selectivo De Primera Fuerza” event to earn yet another appearance on Mexico’s National Team. Being there to coach Paola and witness her dominating performance was wonderful. Longoria won the Women’s Singles divisions at the event and has earned the right to play at the 2018 International Racquetball Federation’s (IRF) World Championships later this summer. Paola did not lose a single game at the National Selection event and allowed her opponents to score less than 10 points

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Denver, Colorado – May 6, 2018 Paola Longoria, the No. 1 ranked player in the world, won the Women’s Professional Doubles division at the inaugural World Doubles Open Championships. Held at the Denver Athletic Club in Colorado, the event featured the top professional players from around the world and offered a prize purse of more than $35,000. Longoria and her partner, Samantha Salas, in the Women’s Professional Doubles division won the first game of the Championship Final, however dropped the second game. In the tie-breaker, Paola and her partner won 11-6. Paola and Samantha have dominated the doubles scene both

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Coaching Rocky Carson & Paola Longoria as well as some Amateurs and continues to spread her philosophy at the Fran Davis “Championship Racquetball” Camps presented by HEAD/Penn Coach Fran Davis had a busy 2017/2018 season traveling the world coaching and training Paola Longoria and Rocky Carson, BOTH FINISHING #1 on the LPRT and IRT Professional Tours, but also coaching amateur racquetball players like yourselves at tournaments as well as her camps. Fran Davis Racquetball Camp The Spring Camp was held May 4-6 in Syosset, NY with the local pro and NYC guru, Dean Baer. No matter whether Fran is working

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