Well today was the final day of competition, and congratulations to Kevin Caouette on his gold medal in 16U Friendship Cup - Well done!
Congratulations to all the athletes from Canada, I have heard that you had some very tough matches and that you all played hard.
Keep practising, and get ready for Junior Nationals in Regina.
Wishing all of you a safe journey home - and all the best of the Holiday Season.
Geri Powell
VP Development
Racquetball Canada
Saturday, December 20, 2008
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
14 yr Girls are tops in their pools
Michele Morissette & Brittany Nelson have both placed 1st in their respective pools.
They will be ranked #1 and #3 in the main draw now.
They are both playing quite strong and doing Canada proud.
Brittany overcame 14-8 and 14-13 deficits to win both of her games in her last match vs Mexico. What an exciting match !!!
Mike Fuerth is also doing well in the Boys 14 Challenger Cup and will be playing in the semi-finals on Friday.
Our family is quite proud of our 2 competitors. I think Brittany & Mike are fighting it out between themselves for biggest bragging rights.
They will be ranked #1 and #3 in the main draw now.
They are both playing quite strong and doing Canada proud.
Brittany overcame 14-8 and 14-13 deficits to win both of her games in her last match vs Mexico. What an exciting match !!!
Mike Fuerth is also doing well in the Boys 14 Challenger Cup and will be playing in the semi-finals on Friday.
Our family is quite proud of our 2 competitors. I think Brittany & Mike are fighting it out between themselves for biggest bragging rights.
Monday, December 15, 2008
Day one
First off Uncle Trevor has sent best wishes to all the Canadian players but especially to three special ladies from Saskatoon, Danielle, Callie and Abby. He says that he is thinking of you in -43 temp.
The balance of the day had some great results for Team Canada.
First round wins in their singles go to Denise Haynes, Samuel Murray, Anthony Schonberger, Mike Fuerth, James Slamko, Pedro Castro, Kevin Caouette in B16U, and Sean Barclay.
Brigitte Richard,Taylor Blue, Nicolas Bousquet B14U, Sebastien Boissonneault, and Nina Markovic did not do as well in their first round, but tomorrow is another day.
On the doubles side Denise H and Christine R, Michele M and Brittany N, James S and Pedro C, Sami H and Coby I, Samuel M and Taylor B, Sebastien B and Derreck West all won in their first round. Frederique L and Brigitte R, Nicholas Leung and Connor C lost in their first doubles rounds.
There was not one hour today that a Canadian player was not on the courts playing for Canada, the coaches had a tough job today and from the looks of it did an excellant job.
Three cheers for a great first day of competition.
The balance of the day had some great results for Team Canada.
First round wins in their singles go to Denise Haynes, Samuel Murray, Anthony Schonberger, Mike Fuerth, James Slamko, Pedro Castro, Kevin Caouette in B16U, and Sean Barclay.
Brigitte Richard,Taylor Blue, Nicolas Bousquet B14U, Sebastien Boissonneault, and Nina Markovic did not do as well in their first round, but tomorrow is another day.
On the doubles side Denise H and Christine R, Michele M and Brittany N, James S and Pedro C, Sami H and Coby I, Samuel M and Taylor B, Sebastien B and Derreck West all won in their first round. Frederique L and Brigitte R, Nicholas Leung and Connor C lost in their first doubles rounds.
There was not one hour today that a Canadian player was not on the courts playing for Canada, the coaches had a tough job today and from the looks of it did an excellant job.
Three cheers for a great first day of competition.
First Day results
I am watching online from Canada so will try and keep all up to date with how our players are doing.
18U mixed D Anthony and Nina lost in their first round.
12u Boys Esprit
Sami Harb lost his first round, Coby Iwaasa won in a tie breaker. Devin Halko, Connor Culhane and Nicholas Leung lost in their first round of singles of 12U boys, Nicolas Bousquet won.
14U Girls World
Brittany Nelson and Michelle Morrisette both won their first round.
14U Friendship/Challenger
Danielle Drury won, this is great as this is a combined 14 & 16 U group.
6u Mulitbounce (6U & 8U multibounce)
Abby Drury won her first game of the worlds decisively over an 8 year old - way to go Abby.
Frederique is currently on the court and just won her first round.
Updates to follow
18U mixed D Anthony and Nina lost in their first round.
12u Boys Esprit
Sami Harb lost his first round, Coby Iwaasa won in a tie breaker. Devin Halko, Connor Culhane and Nicholas Leung lost in their first round of singles of 12U boys, Nicolas Bousquet won.
14U Girls World
Brittany Nelson and Michelle Morrisette both won their first round.
14U Friendship/Challenger
Danielle Drury won, this is great as this is a combined 14 & 16 U group.
6u Mulitbounce (6U & 8U multibounce)
Abby Drury won her first game of the worlds decisively over an 8 year old - way to go Abby.
Frederique is currently on the court and just won her first round.
Updates to follow
Racquetball Live
The worlds are being streamed on Globall.TV
if you go the Racquetballonline.tv and sign in you will be redirected to the site, or if you go to the IRF site you can also link from there.
if you go the Racquetballonline.tv and sign in you will be redirected to the site, or if you go to the IRF site you can also link from there.
Sunday, December 14, 2008
to all the athletes
Wishing you all the best in your games. Play hard and play well. Have fun.
Looking forward to reading the stories, remember to hit the publish post at the bottom for your information to be posted to the site.
Cheers
Geri P
Looking forward to reading the stories, remember to hit the publish post at the bottom for your information to be posted to the site.
Cheers
Geri P
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