Racquetball Hall of Fame Members
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Raised to Legend
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Inducted 2015
Judy is well known around the racquetball circle having won the Australian Open Racquetball Women’s Championships seven (7) times (1996/97, & 2002-2006).
Judy has also won the Victorian Open Racquetball Women’s Championships seven (7) times (1996/97, & 2002-2006).
She has also won numerous mixed and women’s Open doubles championships throughout her career.
Judy is a Level 2 squash coach and was co-owner of the highly successful Profile Squash and Racquetball Centre in Bairnsdale for ten years, which has introduced hundreds of players to racquetball, as well as squash.
The Centre’s weekly in-house racquetball programs contained over 370 players.
Judy continues to support and play racquetball over Victoria.
Inducted 2016
Geoff began his squash career as a nine year old at the Mordialloc Squash Courts and was soon playing Junior Pennant in a team with a tiny Sarah Fitz‐Gerald. He played with a wooden junior racquet that had been recommended by his first coach, Judith Fitz‐Gerald. As a coach and mentor, Judith was a significant influence for Geoff during his career.
Still in primary school, Geoff's first big tournament win was the Under 12 Victorian Boys Championship. He went on to play in the Victorian Junior Team numerous times. At thirteen, Geoff joined his first Men's Pennant team at Kings, in Oakleigh where he played with his Dad, Alan Wilcock. It is not known who was higher in the team order of merit! By sixteen, Geoff was playing in his first State Grade team. As a junior, he won numerous regional and state titles.
By the time he was nineteen, Geoff had had a go at the relatively new game of Australian Racquetball and he won the Victorian Racquetball Championships held at Keysborough. He followed this up by winning a total of five Australian Racquetball Open titles. He actually possesses the perpetual plaque for this tournament in consideration of how many times his name appears on it. Not bad for a squash player!
The international stage beckoned and at 23 Geoff joined the world tour and reached a career high world ranking of 49. Memorable matches for Geoff included playing Jansher Khan, then the world No. 1, in the Australian Open at Albert Park in 1993, and the great Jahangir Khan in the World Open in Adelaide in 1992. Jahangir was Geoff's hero and his favourite player to watch – probably still is!
Geoff's career highlights include winning his first international squash title in Sydney. Geoff has also coached both squash and racquetball for many years. The Friday night squash clinic he started 20 years ago is still running today at Beaconsfield and he rarely misses a week. He is on the Coaching Sub‐Committee of S&RV and is in high demand for private and group coaching.
These days, Geoff plays squash in the Mornington Peninsula Open Pennant in a team with his sister, Sandra, and they were proud winners of the Grand Final last season. He has also returned to racquetball and recently won the Ballarat Open Doubles in September last year and the ESRA Open Doubles in February this year, with partner Greg Paine.
Geoff also continues to play his other favourite sport of cricket and his team also won the grand final just last weekend. Unsurprisingly, he is quite good at this game too! Geoff Wilcock is a highly talented player and gifted coach, and a very deserving recipient of the Hall of Fame accolade.
Raised to Legend
