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Legendary Ladies
Lynn Adams
Lynn Adams specialized in the 800 and
1500 meter runs while attending Orange Coast College in southern
California. She caught the ‘Racquetball Bug’ when she saw racquetball
courts across the track. A young man invited her to lunch and offered
instruction. Within a short period of time, Adams humbled the young man
and the rest is legendary history as she turned down a UCLA’s track
scholarship to pursue her racquetball destiny.
Accomplishments
- Joined the Women’s Professional
Racquetball Association (WPRA) at its inception in 1979.
- Four-time
defending WPRA National Champion.
- Won three DP National
Championships and two Ektelon National Titles.
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She was undefeated
during the 1985-86 seasons, winning eight tournaments
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Captured the "Triple Crown" of
winning all three national tournaments two years in a row.
- During her
career, she has won about 90% of her matches.
- Rookie of the
Year
- Player of the Year 5 times.
- Prestigious Steding Cup, which
is awarded annually by the WPRA to the player who best personifies the
ideal of women’s racquetball.
- Her rivalry
with elite squash and racquetball champion Heather McKay ended in a
virtual tie: McKay 20 wins, Adams 19.
- Inducted into the Racquetball
Hall of Fame in 1997.
- Won 325 of here
369 professional matches for an 88.7% winning percentage.
- Won six pro tour seasons
titles: 1982-83, 85-88.
- Seven Overall
Championships: 82-83, 85-88, and 90.
- Won six
national titles in the 1980s and once more in 1990.
Lynn Adams’s championships and awards are
even more impressive when you consider that at the age of 16, she was
diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis and in 1987, she was diagnosed with
multiple sclerosis (MS). Despite the occasional ups and downs from the
swellings of her hands, feet and knees, her hard work, dedication and
talent to the great sport of racquetball made her a world class athlete.
She is well known for her powerful and
accurate drive serves and an aggressive all around style on the court.
Her accomplishments, talents, hard work and dedications make her a
legendary racquetball model.
Currently, Lynn Adams is into her
exciting second career as a music director for the Hawthorne Hills
Community Church near her hometown of Libertyville, Illinois.
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