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12 Facts About Angela Grisar

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Angela Grisar was born on May 2,1973 and is a Chilean retired racquetball player.

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Angela Grisar was the first South American woman's racquetball player to finish in the top 10 on the women's pro tour, doing so six straight seasons.

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Angela Grisar won numerous medals for Chile in international competitions, including at four International Racquetball Federation World Championships and three Pan American Games.

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Angela Grisar has been runner up in doubles twice at Worlds.

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Angela Grisar did it in 2006 with Fabiola Marquez, when they lost to Americans Laura Fenton and Aimee Ruiz, and in 2012 with Carla Munoz, when they lost to Paola Longoria and Samantha Salas.

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Angela Grisar's latest medal at Worlds came in 2014, when she was a bronze medalist in Women's Doubles with Carla Munoz.

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Angela Grisar was a double medalist at the 2006 Pan American Championships, when she got bronze in singles and silver in doubles with Fabiola Marquez.

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Angela Grisar has three other bronze medals in singles: one from the 2004 Pan American Championships, when she lost to Canadian Lori-Jane Powell in the semi-finals, one from the 2011 Pan American Championships, when she lost to Samantha Salas in semi-finals, and the other at the 2009 World Games in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

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Angela Grisar won one women's pro tournament, which came in 2007 in Miami, where she defeated Kerri Wachtel in the final, Rhonda Rajsich in the semi-finals and Kristen Walsh Bellows in the quarter finals.

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Angela Grisar was a semi-finalist at the US Open in 2007 and a US Open quarter finalist on five other occasions.

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Angela Grisar currently lives in San Ramon, California, where she is a health club manager in Fremont, California.

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Angela Grisar graduated from the Universidad Catolica de Chile in 1997 and the Universidad de Chile in 2006.