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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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My two athletes, Rocky Carson and Paola Longoria, arrived at the 16th IRF World Championships in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic on August 1st, 2012 to take care of business. Rocky wanted to defend his 2012 World Championship Title he won in South Korea and Paola came on a mission to take the World Championship Title that alluded her in South Korea two years ago. I am so PROUD of both of them as they accomplished what they set out to accomplish as they both have been training hard and long to be able to reach their goals. They both wanted

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Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic– August 8, 2012 – HEAD/Penn’s Paola Longoria and Rocky Carson both have earned the title “World Champion” by winning the Women’s & Men’s Singles Titles, respectively at the International Racquetball Federation’s 2012 World Championships. In addition, Longoria teamed with HEAD Pro Staff Member Samantha Salas Solis to win the women’s doubles “World Title” for her second Gold medal at the event. For Longoria, the world’s No. 1 ranked female racquetball player, the IRF World Championship completes the “Perfect Season” after going undefeated during the 2011-2012 Women’s Professional Racquetball Organization’s (WPRO) tour. Carson’s World Championship comes after

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The country's best junior racquetball players competed at the Meridian Sports Club in Fullerton, CA, June 21-24 in the USAR National Junior Olympic Racquetball Championships presented by Penn. Junior players from all across the U.S. competed for coveted Gold medals in 60 divisions for boy's and girl's in singles and doubles. In addition, this event is a U.S. Junior National Team Qualifier as one-year appointments were earned by the top finishers in 18-Gold Singles, 16-Gold Singles, 14-Gold Singles in boy's and girl's divisions. The USA Junior Team will be competing at the 2012 IRF Junior World Racquetball Championships, November 11-17,

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