Welcome
Welcome to the new INSRA website, our state forum to promote this great sport, and provide information about racquetball in Indiana and nationally. We hope to provide more tournament opportunities and special events, and to promote roles for players as certified instructors, referees or racquetball ambassadors. All of these efforts can help recruit new players, and can lead to a lifetime of racquetball play, fitness, and fun.
Latest News
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COVID-19 and Indiana Racquetball: As you all know, increasingly protective measures have been put into effect to reduce the the rapid spread of this virus in the United States. This appropriate public health focus has also significantly affected our 2020 INSRA Event Schedule. Several tournaments have been postponed: March Madness Doubles, Lifetime/Gearbox Shootout, the Purdue Cup and State Singles have all been postponed until further notice. Please see the revised 2020 Event Schedule in Upcoming Events.
The INSRA Board intends to reschedule these events as soon as the immediate crisis passes, and we are able to make alternative plans. This intent is tempered by the inability to predict when public health restrictions will be lifted. We appreciate your patience and understanding during this sobering time.
In the meantime, take every precaution to keep yourselves safe and your families protected. Take a look at the CDC website to keep yourselves educated about this pandemic and our collective safety. And try to stay in shape! Use your imagination, home equipment, ellipticals, etc. We hope to see you on the courts soon.
- See new Board Meeting Schedule and Updated Bylaws.
Strengthens Body and Mind!
Racquetball fitness helps you move better, feel better, think better! Works all muscle groups. Improves focus, quick decision making, reaction times, and provides down time from all those day-to-day stresses.
Burns Fat and Calories
In one hour of racquetball, a player burns up to 600-800 calories and runs up to 2 miles!
Improves Balance and Coordination
It takes anticipation, strategic thinking, quickness, nimble footwork AND PRACTICE to be ready where the ball is going to be!
Improves Your Social Life!
You’re only one game away from a good mood and new friends!
Young
Racquetball, like other sports: teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose, it teaches you about life. JUST PLAY AND HAVE FUN!
Men
Racquetball works the core, the lower body (running and footwork), upper body (racquet control and hitting). Improves strategic thinking, power, endurance.
Women
Strengthens bone and muscle, slows bone loss. Aerobic and anaerobic benefits. Improves reaction times and strategy, flexibility, coordination, stamina.
Senior
Never underestimate older people who play racquetball! It promotes heart health, clarity of thinking, better hand-eye coordination and reflexes, and fewer falls with age.
President’s Message
Hello Indiana Racquetball!
I trust all of you had a very happy holiday season. Now that 2020 is in full swing, I hope you’ll join all of us at INSRA in making this a stellar year for Indiana racquetball. We’re off to a great start with approximately 13 planned events on the calendar thus far. Our event schedule is constantly being updated with the latest and greatest information, so please check back often and be sure to reference R2 sports for the official list of sanctioned events in Indiana (usaracquetballevents.com/indiana/racquetball-events.asp) and the nation (usaracquetballevents.com).
Right now, we’ve got Indiana State Singles Championships scheduled for April and State Doubles Championships slated for July. The 3rd Annual Rocky Carson clinic will be held in August, this time in Schererville, and the Sheryl Lotts shootout is planned for May in Fort Wayne. Tom Bainbridge and Diane Moore are our “anchors” with their usual excellent events planned in the spring and fall. We’re targeting a recurrence of the Purdue Cup in Lafayette in April, the Racquets for Rescues fundraiser in Indianapolis in September and the Great Pumpkin Shootout in October, this time in Fort Wayne. And I’m very pleased to announce the debut of NEW events to be held at the Carmel LA Fitness in March and the Castleton Lifetime Fitness in April, June, and October. So lots of opportunities for all of us to pick up a racquet and play!
We’ve learned a lot over the past year and are looking forward to applying that knowledge to our events this year. We will be laser-focused in 2020 on scheduling events to start and end on-time and manage facility capacity as effectively and efficiently as possible. This means that we will likely have to manage divisions closely to ensure matches stay on schedule or “cap” attendees at events being held at facilities with a limited number of courts. So please sign up early for those events you are interested in to secure your place! (We’ll have waiting lists set up in the event of a cancellation.)
Check out our website for updates to the Board, our meeting schedule, and By-Laws. In addition, we’ll be using our website to re-launch our annual awards program this year so stay tuned for more details on this soon.
2020 is off to a great start for Indiana Racquetball. I’m looking forward to seeing all of you at an event “coming soon to theatre near you!” In the interim, if you’d like to join us in our mission to make Indiana Racquetball the best it has ever been, please reach out to any Board Member. There is always room for you to contribute as an event volunteer, a tournament director, or a full-fledged Board Member. We’d love to have you join the team!
See you on the Courts!
Sincerely,
Laura Pesek
INSRA President
