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Sunday Stats: 2020/21 Season-Ending Icebreaker Fun Facts Part 1

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The WPH has proudly presented the WPH Sunday Stats since the start of 2020, highlighting the Race 4 Eight’s and Icebreaker’s greatest champions and stats, longest winning streaks, greatest accomplishments, tournament directors, nicknames, obscure stats, handball’s origins and history, handball champions featured in national publications, and so much more. This Sunday we’ll highlight the 2020/21 WPH Icebreaker Season-Ending Fun Facts Part 1.

The WPH created the Icebreaker 3-Wall pro tour Championship to “break the ice” during the pandemic, allowing the best handball players in the world to compete and showcase their talents to the world. The Icebreaker tour attracted virtually all of the best players from North America, providing riveting theatre for the WPH’s worldwide audience.

Check out the Icebreaker Fun Facts from the 12 events in the 2020/21 Icebreaker season below.

2020-2021 Icebreaker Fun Facts Part 1

  • Undefeated Icebreaker players: Carroll (10-0), A. Morales (3-0), B. Medina (4-0)
  • Most Icebreaker titles: Carroll (3)
  • Players with zero Icebreaker small ball wins: L. Collado (0-2), Mattioni (0-2), Ni Churraoin (0-2), J. Chapman (0-4), D. Perez (0-4), L. Cordova (0-2)
  • Oldest Icebreaker ranked pro players: Fink (44), Davis (44)
  • Youngest Icebreaker ranked pro: Esser (24)
  • Youngest Icebreaker champion: Carroll (28)
  • There have been 26 different Icebreaker small ball pros through the first 12 Icebreakers (19 men, 7 women)
  • Seven of the 26 Icebreaker small players reside in AZ
  • Five of the 26 Icebreaker small players reside in CA
  • Most points scored in Icebreaker history: Fink (262)
  • Most lopsided games in Icebreaker history:
  • Moler def Mitchell 21-0, game one, Icebreaker #5
  • Lenning def Fink 15-0, game one, Icebreaker #8
  • Moler def Ni Churraoin 11-0, game three, Icebreaker #9
  • Coldest Icebreaker match: 43 degrees at the start of Icebreaker #5 (Moler vs. Mitchell)
  • Warmest Icebreaker match: 117 degrees at the start of the Icebreaker #11 final (Fink vs. Carroll)
  • Furthest distance traveled to compete in an Icebreaker: 2,640 miles (Carroll traveling from Boston, MA to Tucson, AZ)
  • Shortest distance traveled to compete in an Icebreaker: 2.1 miles (Esser/Mitchell)

David Fink

WPH Icebreaker Statistician 

DV: David Vincent formed the World Players of Handball in 2005 and ushered live handball viewing into our living rooms for the first time. Since its inception, the World Players of Handball has broadcast over 1,500 matches live. Dave Vincent serves as the lead play-by-play announcer for virtually all matches, combining his unique perspective and personality with a lifetime of handball experience. DV brings 25 years of broadcast radio experience (in Oregon and California) to World Players of Handball & ESPN broadcasts and provides professionalism and wit to the amazing game of handball. DV also serves as the Executive Director of the World Player of Handball at the WPH headquarters in Tucson, AZ, working daily to grow the game of handball through innovation.
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