Racquetball Canada's Kurtis Cullen teaches a student from St. Johns Community School how to hit the ball. (Logan Lehmann/paNOW Staff)

By Logan Lehmann

Racquetball

What’s all the ‘racquet’ at Prince Albert schools this week?

Nov 1, 2022 | 2:00 PM

A racquetball player from Prince Albert is looking to revive the once popular sport in the city with a new program to get kids back and playing.

Terra Cowan, along with Kurtis Cullen of Racquetball Canada were at St. Johns Community School today will be visiting two other schools this week to give kids of all ages the opportunity to give the sport a try and, to potentially, fall in love with it.

“It was my childhood sport,” Cowan said. “That was back in a time when racquetball was very very big and since the sport has kind of fizzled somewhat, I got started back playing and met up with Kurtis and we want to get a racquetball program started back up again and hopefully get racquetball back to what it used to be.”

Racquetball Canada’s inflatable program got started by Cullen when he got the idea from simply crossing paths with the inflatable courts. He then pitched the idea to Racquetball Canada where he says they loved the idea.

“I ended up stumbling across these courts and I pitched the idea to Racquetball Canada and said ‘This is awesome, let’s go for it’ and they said ‘How much?’ and ordered them,” he said. “The next thing you know, our first shipment we had nine courts come into Canada and we recently got 11 more.”

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Cullen added the program isn’t for him to teach the kids racquetball, rather to expose the kids to the sport and to let the game speak for itself.

“My job is to get them in the sport, but the sport sells itself,” he said. “It’s all about the exposure, getting the racquet in their hand and that’s all I’m wanting to do here. I don’t need to do anything else after that but guide them in the right direction,” he said.

Cowan added with this program, they are looking to start a junior program here in Prince Albert at Fitness For 10 and said the program will be getting started “in the very near future.”

The inflatable program will visit two other schools in Prince Albert this week and is set to visit Vincent Massey Public School on Wednesday and Red Wing Public School on Thursday.

More information about the sport can be found at RacquetballCanada.com.

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