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Interview with Doc McClayson
Cindy Kitchen:
Doc Marcus McClayson, it’s good to have you in the Velocity Racquetball
Pro Am Tour studio with us! Welcome!
VRB Fans: Doc! Doc! Doc!
Doc MM: Please Cindy, call me McClayson.
CK: First
off McClayson, please explain how you got your name McClayson.
MM: Well, initially my racquetball name
was Marcus Clay. Clay being a substance that can adapt to any
container/opponent’s game styles. Then I added the prefix "Mc" for all
the fantastic Irish and Scottish players I play with and then I added
the suffix, "Son," for all the Norwegians players I crossed racquetball
swords with. My middle initial is Vladimir-Huang for my Russian and
Asian friends.
CK: Wow
Doc, thanks for that illuminating explanation! Way cool Doc!
MM: Thanks beautiful.
CK:
(blushing): You’re welcome. Now how did you come about the name Doc?
MM: It came out of a Forum
discussion where I described T-Man as Wyatt Earp and I’m his shotgun
carrying sidekick, Doc Holliday, thus the name Doc stuck.
CK: You are
full of surprises! Now Doc, tell the fans how you started playing
racquetball?
MM: Cindy, I was literally a hack
when I started playing racquetball sometimes in 1996 at the University
of Minnesota. I got to play with the U of M’s racquetball team and met
some great people, like John Hui, James Quan, Joel Gainsley, Andy
Nelson, Allan the army guy, Sui Chi, Big Bill, super fast Scott Dahl,
Dave Haas, Travis Grey, Sahab Matin, Buck, and female pro, Dana
Anderson, the top ranked Minnesota pro, Aaron Granberg. It was a nice
beginning.
CK: Didn’t
you start playing and learning the game when you took a class on
racquetball?
MM: Yeah, that’s right Cindy, thanks for
reminding me. I took a class about racquetball taught by the super calm
and religious Mr. Ross. He was a super cool dude, but I learned next to
nothing in his class.
CK: Why
not?
MM: It was a good class, I guess my mind
wasn’t ready for the racquetball knowledge yet, until the famed Olympic
racquetball coach Fran Davis and her racquetball camps came along in
2000!
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