WPH Press, 2/17/22
After a two-year pandemic-induced hiatus from the Race 4 Eight tour, the Race 4 Eight’s most decorated and winning champion, Catriona Casey, returns to the tour she has thoroughly dominated since winning the inaugural WR48 stop in 2014. Let’s examine Catriona’s sensational stats in this pre-Houston edition of the Fun Facts.
Catriona Casey Pre-Houston Fun Facts
- Catriona has won 20 of the 22 WR48 events she has entered
- Catriona has only missed one WR48 stop in the 23-stop history of the tour (Nashville USHA Four Wall Nationals, December 2021)
- When Catriona hits her first serve in Houston, it will have been 734 days since she last competed on the WR48 tour (last start/win: New Orleans, February 16, 2020)
- Catriona enters the 2022 WR48 Houston having just won the 2022 GAA She’s Ace and 2022 GAA Irish Nationals
- Catriona has finished number one in every completed WR48 season (2014-2019)
- Catriona has won every WR48 Player’s Championship ever held (2014-2019)
- In 22 Women’s R48 starts, Catriona Casey owns a 67-2 match record (97%)
- In the 20 WR48 events Catriona Casey has won, Casey won 127 out of 131 games played (97%)
- Catriona Casey is the only player in Race 4 Eight history to have started a Race 4 Eight event and never lost before the finals, having appeared in every WR48 final ever held (20-2 in 20 WR48 finals)
- Catriona Casey became the first women’s player in the history of handball to defeat a current men’s pro in tournament play at the NYAC ’18 – Casey defeated then R48 #22 Loren Collado 25-19 in the 17th place playoffs
- Catriona rides an 8-tournament, 24-match WR48 win streak into Houston (last loss: 2017 WR48 Tucson Memorial)
- Catriona will travel more than 4400 miles each way to compete in Houston, more than twice as many miles than 90% of the pro players entered in Houston
- Catriona has traveled more than 190,000 miles to compete on the WR48 tour in her 22 WR48 starts
- Catriona is the only WR48 champion entered in the 2022 WR48 Houston
Catch Catriona and the rest of the WR48 stars in Houston this Saturday and Sunday, February 19-20 on the Watch ESPN App
David Fink
WPH Senior Statistician