Moscoso rises as top challenger to racquetball king Waselenchuk

Conrrado Moscoso has forced racquetball’s old order to make room for a new threat. The player from Sucre, Bolivia, sits No. 2 behind Kane Waselenchuk on the International Racquetball Tour rankings, and his resume now includes nine titles, seven finals appearances and a career-high year-end finish of No. 2 in 2023.

That place in the sport is not built on ranking alone. Moscoso first appeared on the IRT tour in 2017 and has climbed fast enough to become the most credible active challenger to Waselenchuk’s standard-setting run. The tour’s own profile labels him a trailblazing Bolivian athlete, and that fits the way he has changed the conversation around who can contend for major racquetball titles.

His breakthrough came on the sport’s biggest stage. Moscoso won the men’s singles title at the 2022 Racquetball World Championships in San Luis Potosí, Mexico, becoming the first Bolivian man and the first South American man to win an IRF World Championship singles title. That result gave him something larger than a trophy: proof that a player from outside the sport’s traditional U.S. center could own the sport’s biggest moments.

Moscoso has kept adding to that case. Panam Sports identifies him as a world champion, a three-time Pan American champion and a three-time South American champion. At the 2023 Pan American Games in Santiago, he beat fellow Bolivian Carlos Keller 3-0 for the men’s singles gold, part of a historic run that delivered Bolivia its first gold and silver medals at those Games in racquetball. Later in Santiago, Moscoso joined Kadim Carrasco and Keller to win team gold, giving Bolivia its second gold medal at the event and its best-ever Pan American Games performance.

He has also shown that his range extends beyond singles. Moscoso and Angélica Barrios won the mixed doubles title at the 2023 Pan American Championships, making him the first player to win singles, doubles and mixed doubles at that event. That kind of versatility makes him dangerous in any draw, because opponents cannot count on one format to blunt his impact.

Moscoso’s rise has also carried symbolic weight for Bolivia and for the continent. In a 2025 Panam Sports interview, he said continental racquetball is “improving dramatically” and becoming more demanding, and his own career is the clearest evidence. As Waselenchuk remains the benchmark, Moscoso has become the pressure agent, the player most capable of breaking the old script and widening the sport’s map beyond its familiar base.