It can be easily adopted by your club, school, or community centre giving young athletes the opportunity to learn and progress in a sport they will enjoy for years. As athletes develop their hand-eye coordination, they can easily transfer their skills to a variety of other sports and activities. And since racquetball is an individual sport, players enjoy victories on a more personal level and take additional pride in playing a sport which their hockey or soccer buddies can not or do not play well. As an individual sport, racquetball requires players to keep their emotions in check. The intensity level of racquetball also requires a great deal of discipline from the players and develops quick decision-making and reflexes.
Racquetball is one of the few sports in which players also serve as officials.
At many tournaments the winner or loser of a match is required to referee the next match on the same court. Players quickly develop a higher degree of respect for officials in any sport when they themselves are one. 5. All racquetball tournaments have several divisions according to ability. As a result, younger players often compete against older players, and girls can compete against boys. All athletes develop a better sense of equality and young players tend to develop a more mature attitude towards competition simply by the association with older players .