Lynn Adams

Lynn Adams is a retired American racquetball player and a native of California who was one of the dominant players of the 1980s, ranked number one or number two in every pro season between 1980 and 1991. She was attending Orange Coast College as a middle distance track athlete when she first tried racquetball at age 19, and soon afterward met Jim Carson, who became her coach for her whole career. In the first half of the 1980s she had a fierce rivalry with Heather McKay that helped establish the women's pro racquetball tour, and after McKay moved back to Australia in 1985 she was the dominant women's professional player, undefeated in the 1985-86 season. She finished number one on the women's pro tour in six seasons of the 1980s, was Player of the Year eight times and won the women's pro Nationals six times.