National Team History

RACQUETBALL CANADA TEAM HISTORY

The first Team Canada competed at the 1984 World Championships, which occur every two years. Since then, Canada has regularly sent players to the World Championships (biennial competition), Pan American Championships (annual; formerly Tournament of the Americas), and Pan American Games (quadrennial).

Canadians have won 8 gold medals at the World Championships beginning in 1984, when Ross Harvey won gold in men’s singles. Three Canadians have won singles twice at Worlds: Heather Stupp won Women’s Singles in 1988 and 1990; Sherman Greenfeld won Men’s Singles in 1994 and 1998; and Christie Van Hees won in 1998 and 2006. In 1986, Carol McFetridge and Manon Sicotte won gold in Women’s Doubles at  Worlds.

The Men’s Team won gold on five occasions at the World Championships in 1986, 1988, 1996, 2000, and 2002, and Canada took the Overall Team title in 2000.

In the annual Pan American Championships, Canadians have won gold on 12 occasions. Six times in Men’s Singles: Sherman Greenfeld won three times, in 1990, 1994 and 1998, Mike Green twice in 1999 and 2012, Brian Istace in 2004, Kris Odegard in 2006, and Kane Waselenchuk in 2002. Twice in Women’s Singles: Lori Jane Powell won in 2004, and Heather Stupp won in 1987. And four times in doubles: thrice in Men’s Doubles and once in Women’s Doubles. Mike Green and Tim Landeryou won in 2010, Vincent Gagnon and François Viens in 2007, and Mike Ceresia and Roger Harripersad in 1992, with Karina Odegard and Lori Jane Powell winning in 2002.

Canadians have not won gold in the Pan American Games, but several have earned silver medals, including Mike Green (singles, 2003), Christie Van Hees (singles, 1999), Roger Harripersad & Kelly Kerr (doubles, 1999), Lori Jane Powell & Debbie Ward (doubles, 1999), Chris Brumwell & Jacques Demers (doubles, 1995), and Vicki Shanks & Debbie Ward (doubles, 1995).

Athletes Named to International Teams