Jack Huczek

He was USA Racquetball (USAR) Junior Champion twelve consecutive years, winning 13 titles in that period.

[13] Huczek won three USA Racquetball Intercollegiate Championship titles representing Oakland University.

[14] As a 17-year-old, Huczek reached the semi-finals of the 2000 USA Racquetball National Singles Championship, losing to eventual winner Rocky Carson, 15–11, 15–6.

[15] Huczek won the USAR National Singles Championships for the first time in 2001, when he defeated Rocky Carson in the final, 15–11, 15–6.

[17] At the 2001 USAR National Doubles Championships, Huczek played with Eric Muller, and they lost in the quarterfinals to Dan Llacera and Brian Pointelin, 15–13, 7–15, 11–6.

He won his first tournament in his first season in January 2002 in Boston, where Huczek defeated Cliff Swain in the final, 11–4, 6–11, 11–8, 12–10.

As defending champion, Huczek was seeded #1, and in the semi-finals beat Michael Bronfeld, 15–2, 15–9,[20] to reach the final for the second consecutive year.

[21] In 2002, Huczek again partnered with Eric Muller at the USAR National Doubles Championships, and they reached the finals before losing to Ruben Gonzalez and Mike Guidry, 15–7, 15–10.

[24] Huczek played on Team USA for the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

In the team event, the USA beat Mexico in the semi-finals and then Canada in the final, so Huczek was a double gold medalist.

[29] In 2004, Huczek began a partnership with Rocky Carson for the USAR National Doubles Championships in October in Tempe, Arizona.

In the final, he defeated Mexican Gilberto Mejia, 15–10, 15–3, and in the semi-finals, Huczek beat Canadian Corey Osborne, 15–1, 15–6.

[31] Huczek won the 2005 USAR National Singles Championships, when he came back from a game down to defeat Rocky Carson in the final, 11–15, 15–9, 11–9.

[34] Huczek and Carson again won the USAR National Doubles Championship in October 2006 by defeating Andy Hawthorne and Jeff Stark in the final.

He won the first four events of the season, beating Álvaro Beltrán in Kansas City, 11–9, 11–9, 6–11, 11–5, Jason Mannino in both Bowling Green, Kentucky, 11–0, 8–11, 11–5, 11–4, and Toronto, 11–3, 11–5, 11–5, and Rocky Carson in Albuquerque, 11–6, 10–12, 11–6, 12–10.

He won the last three events of the season with two wins over Carson – in Boston and Allentown, Pennsylvania – and Mannino in Chicago.

[19] In 2008, Huczek was back in the final of the USAR National Singles Championships, and his opponent was a familiar one: Rocky Carson.

Nonetheless, Huczek qualified for Team USA for the 2008 World Championships in Kingscourt, Ireland, where he arrived as the three-time defending champion in Men's Singles.

Huczek had match point opportunities in both the second game and the breaker, but in the end Carson came out on top, winning 12–15, 15–14, 11–10, to take the title for the first time.

Huczek made six finals that season, but only won once, when he beat Rocky Carson in Edmonton, a tournament Waselenchuk didn't attend.

[19] Huczek and Carson teamed up again for the 2009 USAR National Doubles Championship, reaching the final against Ben Croft and Mitch Williams, which they narrowly won, 15–9, 7–15, 11–10,.

[40] The doubles partners were opponents in the final of the 2009 USAR National Singles Championship, which also ended with an 11–10 tie-breaker with Huczek coming out on top, 7–15, 15–9, 11–10.

During the 2009–10 IRT season, Huczek failed to win a tournament for the first time since he'd become a regular tour player in 2001–02.

There were only 9 events that season, and Huczek made 6 of the finals, losing to Kane Waselenchuk 5 times and Jason Mannino once.

[45] Huczek returned to the IRT winner's circle in the 2010–11 season, as he defeated Rocky Carson in the final of the New York City Pro-Am, 7–11, 12–10, 11–7, 8–11, 11–9.

[19] Carson and Huczek won USAR National Doubles in 2011, as they defeated Chris Crowther and Shane Vanderson in the final, 15–7, 5–15, 11–10.

Over his career, Huczek had a winning record against all other IRT players except for Sudsy Monchik and Kane Waselenchuk (he was 2-2 versus Jose Rojas).

Huczek also won the USA Racquetball National Doubles Championships six times (all with Rocky Carson as his partner), and was runner up once (with Eric Muller).

In August 2009, Huczek married Christie Van Hees, a Canadian, who was also World Champion racquetball player.