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Legendary
Dave Peck
While watching the racquetball video
(1980s), Dave Peck SyberVision Racquetball, McClayson knew he had
a racquetball role model for life. Dave Peck is the epitome of
championship fortitude and ingenuity.
He is like the Clint Eastwood of
racquetball in the 1980s with his self taught strokes and working out
his own personal Peck’s high percentage racquetball system to win the
Ektelon Houston National Champions in 1981 and 1982 against all the
top titans of the sports at that time, like Hogan, Keeley, and Yellen.
So, whatever happened to Dave Peck?
Is this racquetball legend still
playing ball or perfecting his tan by the equator?
Dave Peck started playing racquetball pretty late at
age eighteen. His older sister introduced him to the game when Peck got
injured playing college football. Excerpt paraphrased from the
SyberVision audio interview and spoken in his calm, soft Texan
drawl:
"yaw…I started playing racquetball rather late
in life, I was eighteen when my older sister introduced me to the game.
And when I first started I thought I was pretty good too. I could hit
the ball pretty well and get to many balls.
I loved the exercise, I was
literally drenched in sweat when I was done, and I just couldn’t believe
the workout I got versus say playing say football. I stopped playing
football because there was this thing called guys who were 6’6" and 280
pounds breaking my skull in and didn’t enjoy that very much at all; I
didn’t like that violent aspect of football, so I started to play more
racquetball.
I thought I was going to be world champion because I
was thought I was pretty good…I’ll tell yaw…I was in for a rude
awakening when I signed up for my first tournament and played Open and I
lost to this old guy and he literally schooled me from here to Timbuktu!
That’s when I realize I had to do a lot of work to get to a level where
I felt that I could compete with the top names of the game. Yaw sees I
was so naïve about what it took to become a pro, that I did it anyway
without knowing the many obstacles, so that helped me a lot and also
hurt me a lot too along the way…"
Dave Peck worked diligently off and on the
courts. Peck constructed a high percentage racquetball system that
took him all the way from the ranks of the amateur to the pro tour! In
1978, Peck was awarded the Rookie of the Year trophy.
In the following years, Peck established his place
among the racquetball elite by winning the Ektelon National
Championship in 1981 and 1982! This powerful Texan also won the
Catalina National Title and Player of the Year Honors in
1981. Peck continues to play competitively in the amateur ranks. In
1995, he won both the national singles and doubles crowns for the Mens
35 and over age groups.
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