USA Racquetball reveals 2025-26 junior national team roster

USA Racquetball’s 2025-26 junior national team puts DJ Mendoza and Cole Sendrey at the top of the boys 21-and-under group, Naomi Ros and Ava Kaiser at the top of the girls 21-and-under pool, and the same names carry into doubles and mixed doubles: Mendoza and Sendrey are the 21-and-under boys doubles team, Ros and Kaiser pair in girls doubles, and Ros teams with Sendrey in mixed doubles.

The team page runs from 21-and-under down to 10-and-under, mirroring a junior championship system that reaches from 8-and-under through 21-and-under. Aanshi Thakur and Aarya Shetty, Audrey Reed and Violet Kennedy, and Maryam Bukhari with Sloka Marivada are among the pairs in the lower age groups. The roster includes players from California, Texas, Missouri, Nevada, Minnesota and other states.

At the 2025 Junior National Championships in Minneapolis, 170 athletes competed across 71 divisions at the University of Minnesota Recreation Center, the largest turnout since 2017 and more than any of 11 previous editions. Finalists in singles and winners in doubles earned places on the 2025-26 U.S. Junior Team. The team also represented nine states, and the total shrank from 36 athletes in 2024 to 32 in 2025.

Eli McCulley earned an alternate spot after winning the 2025 National High School Championships in Portland, where 263 athletes from 32 schools and six states competed and Kirkwood High School won its fourth straight overall title. Ella Boaz earned a similar spot through the 2025 National Intercollegiate Championships. At the 2026 National Indoor Championships in Tempe, 212 athletes competed and singles finalists and semifinalists plus doubles finalists qualified for the 2026-27 U.S. Adult Team.