{"id":158972,"date":"2025-07-31T13:31:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T13:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/lethbridge-man-to-compete-in-racquetball-at-the-world-games-chat-news-today\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T13:31:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T13:31:03","slug":"lethbridge-man-to-compete-in-racquetball-at-the-world-games-chat-news-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/lethbridge-man-to-compete-in-racquetball-at-the-world-games-chat-news-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Lethbridge man to compete in racquetball at The World Games – CHAT News Today"},"content":{"rendered":"

A local racquetball player is set to compete in what he equates to being \u201cthe Olympics\u201d of his sport.
Coby Iwaasa has qualified for The World Games, taking place in Chengdu, China, from August 7-17, 2025.
Although he is no stranger to major competitions in racquetball, he says this one feels different.
\u201cIt\u2019s kind of anxiety-inducing, a little nerve-racking. It\u2019s my first time at this event \u2013 I\u2019ve played many world championships before, but this is my first time at World Games,\u201d says Iwaasa.
Iwaasa has racked up eight national titles in his professional career, including two gold medals at the 2025 Canadian National Racquetball Championships. He has also competed in the Pan American Games.
At The World Games, Iwaasa will take part in men\u2019s singles and mixed doubles events.
His mixed doubles partner will be Fr\u00e9d\u00e9rique Lambert, someone whom he has met at tournaments on multiple occasions. The problem, however, is that she lives in Montreal and the two are unable to train together.
\u201cHer and I have known each other for a long time, so at least there\u2019s that bond and that friendship that\u2019s already established, so it\u2019s not that I\u2019m going in and playing with someone brand new, and we\u2019re well aware of how each other plays,\u201d explains Iwaasa.
He says he is the only international racquetball player in Lethbridge, so he often trains alone, but his wife will come to play with him regularly to give him more practice.
Dating back to 1985, Canada\u2019s racquetball athletes have won two silver medals and four bronze at The World Games, but Iwaasa hopes to be the first from the country to bring home gold.
Learn more at TheWorldGames.org<\/a>.
READ MORE: Lethbridge man wins two national racquetball championships<\/a><\/b>
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A local racquetball player is set to compete in what he equates to being \u201cthe Olympics\u201d of his sport.Coby Iwaasa has qualified for The World Games, taking place in Chengdu, China, from August 7-17, 2025.Although he is no stranger to major competitions in racquetball, he says this one feels different.\u201cIt\u2019s kind of anxiety-inducing, a little […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":158973,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}