USA Racquetball held its 52nd annual Junior Nationals event last week on the campus of the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, and the event drew a solid field of top juniors from St Louis, San Antonio, Portland, Stockton, and other junior racquetball hot beds around the country.
The event has been held every year since 1974, save for the Covid year in 2020, and is one of the longest running events in the sport.
With this post, is official notification that the Junior Nationals results have been entered into the ProRacquetballStats.com database. For Juniors, we upload full bracket results for 21s,18s,16s, and 14s, but just load up winners and finalists for all age groups younger than 14U. For doubles, we load up just the finalists.
The best way to see Junior Singles winners is with the cross-year/cross-age group Matrix reports built into the site. They show all the winners for all age divisions going back to 1974. Here’s direct links for each Matrix report:
– Boys USA Junior National Singles Champion Matrix: https://rball.pro/mey
– Girls USA Junior National Singles Champion Matrix: https://rball.pro/cpf
Each full division draw can be accessed from the “event” pulldown after you enter either the Juniors or the Junior Doubles section. One Junior Nationals results in 18-20 singles draws plus another 15 doubles draws being entered into the database, so there’s a lot of new data here this week.
R2sports home page for the event, with all the full brackets: https://www.r2sports.com/tourney/home.asp?TID=46099
For 2025, congrats to your Boys Singles winners:
– Boys 21U: @DJ Mendoza
– Boys 18U: Eshan Ali
– Boys 16U: Vaishant Mangalampalli
– Boys 14U: Ayan Sharma
– Boys 12U: Ryan Joeckel
– Boys 10U: Michael Glenn
– Boys 10Udb: Elijah Machado
– Boys 8U: Jasur Pridatko
– Boys 8Umb: Saharsh Gorthy
– Boys 6UMB: no event in 2025
– Boys 8Umb: Zane Horner
– Boys 6Umb: Xavier De La Torre-Berrera
Congrats to your Girls singles winners:
– Girls 21U: Naomi Ros
– Girls 18U: Sonya Shetty
– Girls 16U: Aanshi Thakur
– Girls 14U; Shreya Chandel
– Girls 12U: Aaradhya Raja
– Girls 10U: Sloka Marivada
– Girls 10Udb: Sylvie Hatcher-Ross
– Girls 8U: Sylvie Hatcher-Ross
– Girls 8Umb: Sasha Rai
– Girls 6Umb: Almira Pridatko
Congrats to your Boys Doubles winners:
– Boys 21U: Cole Sendrey & DJ Mendoza
– Boys 18U: Eshan Ali & Juan Herrera II
– Boys 16U: Grant Williams & Evan Whitley
– Boys 14U: Lucas Frost-Biskup & Ayan Sharma
– Boys 12U: Aiden Townsen & Noah Jackola
– Boys 10U: Michael Glenn & Damien Gil
Congrats to your Girls Doubles winners:
– Girls 21U: Naomi Ros & Ava Kaiser
– Girls 18U: Victoria Rodriguez & Sonya Shetty
– Girls 16U; Aarya Shetty * Aanshi Thakur
– Girls 14U: Audrey Reed & Violet Kennedy
– Girls 12U: Aaradhya Raja & Yana Alegria
– Girls 10U: Maryam Bukhari & Sloka Marivada
And Congrats to your Mixed Doubles winners:
– Mixed 21U: Cole Sendrey & Naomi Ros
– Mixed 18U: Eshan Ali & Sonya Shetty
– Mixed 16U: Vaishant Mangalampalli & Aarya Shetty
– Mixed 14U: Ayan Sharma & Shreya Chandel
– Mixed 12U: Noah Jackola & Aaradhya Raja
– Mixed 10U: Michael Glenn & Sloka Marivada
(Apologies for any typos: these were hand typed into this post)
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Note: there are some combined divisions at 2025 nationals, especially in the 10s, 8s and 6s. I determined the champions when age groups were combined by looking at head to head results to “name” an age group champion. In some cases there are uncontested winners for younger entrants who competed with the next higher age group.
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Here’s some quick commentary on the Singles champions by grouping.
Boys Singles;
In 21U, Mendoza held off Sendrey in a battle of Texas junior IRT regulars to give Mendoza his first Junior title. The GOAT @Kane Waselenchuk was on hand to cheer on his pupil. in 18U Eshan Ali took his 6th career junior title. Vaishant Mangalampalli moved up as the reigning 14U champ and took 16U in his first shot. Ayan Sharma returned to the winner’s circle for the first time since 2018. Both the 10U and 12U winners were first timers; congrats to Michael Glenn and Ryan Joeckel. Jasur Pridatko repeated as 8U champ. Lastly the two multi/double bounce champs were first timers as well: Elijah Machado in 10UDB and then Gorthy, Saharsh in 8UMB.
Special recognition to Ash Murphy, who made the final in 8U, 8Umb and 10Udb. Also a shoutout to David Rada in 14U, who came in as the #30 seed out of a 32 player draw and made a run to the final as a complete unknown. They often say that in Junior draws, the hardest matches are the first round and the final, since kids show up out of nowhere and make huge runs quite frequently.
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Girls Singles quick recaps.
Reigning US Adult and 2024 18U champ Naomi Ros moved up to 21s and took the title, setting the stage for the possibility of 7 straight junior titles for Ros since her naturalization in the US. Sonya Shetty took 18U, her 5th national title. Aanshi Thakur repeated as 16U junior titleist. We had first time winners in both 14U and 12U in Shreya Chandel and Aaradhya Raja respectively. Marivada Sloka took 10U, her 3rd junior title. Sylvie Hatcher-Ross took both the 10Udb and the 8U title. Sasha Rai, 2-time defending 6Umb champ, moved up to take the 8Umb title. Lastly newcomer Almira Pridatko won the 6Umb.
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Multi-title winners
The following players took home the coveted “Triple Crown,” winning singles, gender doubles, and mixed doubles this year:
– Eshan Ali (18U)
– Ayan Sharma (14U)
– Michael Glenn (10U)
– Naomi Ros (21U)
– Sonya Shetty (18U)
– Aaradhya Raja (12U)
– Sloka Marivada (10U)
The following players took home the “double,” winning both Singles and a Doubles title in their age groups:
– DJ Mendoza (21U)
– Aanshi Thakur (16U)
– Shreya Chandel (14U)
These players took the “Double Double,” winning both Gender and Mixed doubles titles.
– Vaishant Mangalampalli (16U)
– Shreya Chandel
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Phew. that’s it for Junior Nationals. Congrats to all the 2025 winners. The National team includes the two singles finalists and the doubles winners in each division; those players have first right of refusal to represent Team USA at Junior Worlds later this year in the Dominican Republic.
Next up on the racquetball calendar? 2025 Outdoor Nationals, teaming with 3WallBall this year in Huntington Beach! We’ll preview and recap that event as we always do.