Jansen Allen
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| Nationality | American | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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July 24, 1989 Corsicana, Texas |
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| Residence | Dallas, Texas | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Racquetball | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| College team | Colorado State-Pueblo | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Turned pro | 2012 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| National finals | 1st 2013, 2015 (doubles) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Jansen Allen (born July 24, 1989) is an American racquetball player. He is currently the Pan American Games Champion in Men’s Doubles with Jose Rojas, and the 6th ranked player on the International Racquetball Tour.
Allen has represented the USA four times internationally. His first appearance was in 2011 at the Pan American Championships in Managua, Nicaragua, where he played doubles with Tony Carson. They defeated Canadians Mike Green and Kris Odegard in the semi-finals, 7-15, 15-13, 11-7, but in the final, they lost to Mexicans Javier Moreno and Polo Gutierrez, 15-13, 4-15, 11-4.
In 2012, Allen and Carson were runners up in Men’s Doubles at the World Championships in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, as they lost the final to Mexicans Moreno and Alvaro Beltran, 15-4, 15-4. They did win gold in the Men’s Team competition in Santo Domingo, as the USA defeated Canada in the final.
Allen played both Men’s Singles and Men’s Doubles at the 2013 Pan American Championships in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. In Men’s Singles he lost in the Round of 16 to Bolivian Felipe Mercado, 15-13, 6-15, 11-9. But in Men’s Doubles, Allen and Marco Rojas made the podium as silver medalists after they lost to Mexicans Moreno and Gutierrez in the final, 15-6, 10-15, 11-8.
His most recent appearance was at the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto, where he won gold in Men’s Doubles with Jose Rojas. They defeated Mexicans Moreno and Beltran in semi-finals, 15-13, 15-14, and then in the semi-finals, they beat Bolivians Conrrado Moscoso and Roland Keller, 15-8, 15-5. Also, Allen and his teammates Rojas, Rocky Carson, and Jake Bredenbeck were silver medalists in the Men’s Team competition.
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