{"id":2279,"date":"2025-05-27T12:51:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T12:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/?p=2279"},"modified":"2025-05-27T12:51:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T12:51:15","slug":"2025-canadian-nationals-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/27\/2025-canadian-nationals-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 Canadian Nationals Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Huge double gold weekend for Iwaasa. \n Photo 2015 Portland IRT event by Kevin Savory<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This past weekend, Racquetball Canada held its all-encompassing National championships in Burlington, Ontario. National titles and National team spots were handed in in Singles, Doubles, and Juniors. Here’s a quick summary of the winners and a recap of the surprising results in the Adults.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Congrats to your 2025 Canada National Open Singles winners on the weekend:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Men’s Singles: Coby Iwaasa<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Women’s Singles: Frederique Lambert<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Congrats to your 2025 Canada National Open Doubles winners on the weekend:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Men’s Doubles: Coby Iwaasa and Kurtis Cullen<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Women’s Doubles: Frederique Lambert & Michelle Morissette<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Congrats to Iwaasa in particular, getting the double Gold at Nationals for the first time ever. Also props to double-gold winner Lambert, who continues her run atop Canada racquetball despite a full time Medical career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Reminder: Canada doesn’t separately compete Mixed Doubles as US & Mexico does, instead selecting the international Mixed partners from the qualified pool)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Congrats to your 2025 Canadian Junior National Singles Champions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Boys 21U: Nathan Jauvin<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Boys 18U: Leyton Gouldie<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Boys 16U: Kyrylo Tkach<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Boys 14U: Oren Gouldie<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Girls 21U: Ofelia Wilscam<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Girls 18U: Chloe Jauvin<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Girls 16U: Kaitlyn Couckuyt<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Girls 14U: Talia King<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We’ll do some commentary for each of the groups down below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trackie Sports App home page for event: https:\/\/secure.racquetballcanada.ca\/entry-list\/matches\/1014510\/4625\/0\/F\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Men’s Open Singles<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PRS report: https:\/\/rball.pro\/a74e99<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We had a relatively huge upset in the Men’s Open finals, with long-time #2 @Coby Iwaasa topping #1 Samuel Murray in four games for the title. This is the first time Sam has been dethroned as Canada’s national singles champion since 2017, and its Coby’s first title since 2015. These two have met in the finals of the last 18 straight national-level events in Canada (qualifiers and nationals), and this is just the second time Iwaasa has taken a match from Big Sam in that span (Iwaasa topped Murray for his 2015 title).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Webb & Cullen made the semis as #3 and #5 seeds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

See https:\/\/rball.pro\/879898 for a list of all Men’s Canada National finals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Women’s Open Singles<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PRS report: https:\/\/rball.pro\/5deb35<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Frederique Lambert won her 5th straight Canadian National title, and her 7th overall dating back to 2015, by beating 3-time runner up @Juliette Parent in the final. The women’s field was a bit thin this year, missing a couple of perennial competitors in Keay and Richardson who are normally semis\/finals competitors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Men’s Doubles:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PRS Report: https:\/\/rball.pro\/7254d9<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Men’s draw was opened up early by an injury to #1 seeds and 2024 champs Trevor Webb & Christian Pocsai, which opened a pathway for the 2023 champs Iwaasa & Cullen to the throne. This is Iwaasa’s 5th National doubles title and Cullen’s 2nd. They topped 3-time champions the Murray brothers Sam & Tommy in the semis to earn their spot in the final, where they defeated the newbies @Leyton Gouldie and @Asher Pocsai.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Women’s Doubles:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PRS Report: https:\/\/rball.pro\/d603c8<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lambert and @Michele Morissette combined to take their fourth straight National title together. Each now owns 6 titles overall (Lambert won two others earlier in her career, and Morissette won two in the late 2010s with Keay. They topped a small round robin group for the title.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Boys Junior Results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Matrix report of all Canadian Junior boys champs: https:\/\/rball.pro\/ny4<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nathan Jauvin took the 21U title, his 8th career Junior title in Canada. He wins 21U in his last year of eligibility to compete a sweep of the five main age groups in his career. Leyton Gouldie tacked on a gold in 18U to his silver in Adult doubles, repeating as champ. Kyrylo Tkach got his first 16U title after winning twice at the 14U level. Lastly. a younger member of the Gouldie family Oren Gouldie repeated as 14U champ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Boys 14U draw was, by far, the largest draw at this event, with nearly 20 competitors as compared to the handful of juniors in most other draws. I’m not sure if there was a wave of middle schoolers picking up the sport in Canada or not, but it’s great to see and I hope that class continues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Girls Junior Results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Matrix report of all Canadian Junior boys champs: https:\/\/rball.pro\/5zu<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 21U awarded a champ for the first time in several years, with Ofelia Wilscam moving up from last year’s 18U title to claim the 21U title over Mercy Coughey. Canada definitely had a weird “gap” in their Girls Junior ranks, skipping 18U and 21U for a couple of years, but they seem “back” now. Chloe Jauvin won her 7th Junior title and she’s won in every age group available so far during her career. Kaitlyn Couckuyt repeated as 16U champ and has now won 3 straight Junior national titles. Talia King is a first-time junior national champ in 14U.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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That’s a wrap for Racquetball Canada Nationals for 2025. We’ll be back next fall with their qualifier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Next up?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Per our handy master racquetball calendar …<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/1V6OTid6rZ356voXVkoV2sN7KMMbIP9SZd0MssH_nPGU\/edit?usp=sharing\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

There’s an IRT satellite in New Mexico next weekend, then the LPRT has a spot at an old stoping ground of mine in Herndon, VA. Later this month is Outdoor Nationals, which has teamed up with @3wallball this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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