2025 WPH Race 4 Eight Salt Lake City Aces Player’s Championship Full Preview
Salt Lake City, UT, WPH Press –
The 2025 WPH Race 4 Eight Salt Lake City Aces Player’s Championship provides professional handball’s greatest showcase, featuring the R48, WR48, and SR48 battling for Player’s Championships, the most coveted prize in professional handball.
Martin Mulkerrins clinched the 2023/24 R48 Player’s Cup for the year-end #1 player and sits in the pole position to defend his Player’s Cup title at the 2025 Player’s Championship. With double ranking points awarded at the Player’s Championship, an early loss for Mulkerrins and a Lucho Cordova win could unseat Mulkerrins. The rest of the Race 4 Eight Elite Eight and many of those contending for year-end Elite 8 status will be seeking double points in Salt Lake and a spot in the year-end Elite 8.
WR48 stars Clodagh Munroe, Mikaila Esser, Ashley Ruiz, Aoife Holden, Niamh Heffernan, and Danielle Daskalakis lead a wide open WR48 field, with this year’s WR48 Player’s Championship guaranteed a first-time champion.
SR48 #1 David Fink will be aiming for his sixth consecutive SR48 Player’s Cup, having won the Cup in his first five seasons on the SR48 tour, but will have to contend with SR48 #2 Sean Lenning, Boxer Rosales, Adam Bernhard, Chris Watkins, and the rest of the top SR stars.
Check out all of the important Salt Lake City Aces tournament information and links for the entire 2024/25 Race 4 Eight tour below.
2025 WPH R48 Salt Lake City Player’s Championship
- Date: May 2-4, 2025
- Site: Sports Mall, 5445 S 900 E, Salt Lake City, UT, 84117
- Tournament directors: Lon Stalsberg, Matt Stalsberg, Ashton Steadman, Ruben Garza, Dave Vincent, David Fink, Ashley Ruiz (Shorty Ruiz/Dave Fink Head Refs)
- Tournament sponsors: Ace Disposal, WPH, JR WPH
- Pro events: R48 Men’s Pro, WR48, SR48
- Number of Race 4 Eight events the Aces Crew have hosted in Salt Lake City: 12
- Defending R48 champion (2024): Martin Mulkerrins
- Defending WR48 champion (2024): Catriona Casey
- Defending SR48 Champion (2024): David Fink
- Race 4 Eight Player’s Cup Champions (year-end #1) entered: Lucho, Mulkerrins, Fink
- Current or former Race 4 Eight #1’s entered: Fink, Lenning, Danos, Mulkerrins, Lucho, M. Esser
- WR48 Player’s Champions entered: N/A
- SR48 Player’s Champions entered: Fink
- Number of ranked Race 4 Eight pros entered: 33
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2024/25 Race 4 Eight schedule HERE
WPH RACE 4 EIGHT: The World Players of Handball’s 2024/25 Race 4 Eight XIII Powered by ESPN featured Race 4 Eight stops in Oregon, Arizona, Montana, Mexico, California, and Texas, all culminating with The Player’s Championship in Utah in May of 2025. Similar to NASCAR’s Nextel Cup and the FedEx PGA Playoffs, players earn points in the Race 4 Eight’s regular season stops to qualify for the season-ending Player’s Championship and bonus prizes.
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2025 WPH R48Pro Aces Player’s Championship
Salt Lake City, Utah – May 3 & 4, 2025
ESPN+ Broadcast Schedule
(Mountain Daylight Time)
Saturday, May 3rd, 2025 – Mountain Daylight Time (MDT)
0900 Men’s Pro Quarterfinal – TBD
0945 Men’s Pro Quarterfinal – TBD
1030 Men’s Pro Quarterfinal – TBD
1115 Men’s Pro Quarterfinal – TBD
1200 Men’s 40+ Pro Semi – TBD
1245 Men’s 40+ Pro Semi – TBD
1330 Women’s Pro Semi – TBD
1415 Women’s Pro Semi – TBD
1500 Men’s Pro Semifinal – TBD
1600 Men’s Pro Semifinal – TBD
Sunday, May 4th, 2025 – Mountain Daylight Time (MDT)
0900 Senior 40+ Final – TBD
0945 Women’s Pro Final – TBD
1030 Men’s Pro 5th or 9th Final – TBD
1115 Men’s Pro Final – TBD
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