Fred Lewis

Who is Fred Lewis?

Fred Lewis is an American former handball player.

Lewis is Jewish, and was born in The Bronx, New York. Both of his parents played handball, and he learned to play handball by playing it off building walls in the Bronx. He grew up primarily playing 1-wall handball, and played his first tournament at the age of eight. As a high school student, he competed on the school's swimming team.

He won two U.S. National Collegiate Singles Championships as a University of Miami student. He received a master’s degree in education at the University of Miami in 1972.

Lewis is a 6-time U.S. Handball Association National Four-Wall Handball Singles Champion. He is also a 3-time National Three-Wall Singles Champion.

All of those championships were won between 1972 and 1981. Lewis was named "Handball Player of the Decade" for the 1970s by the National Handball Association.

He made the finals of the National Open championship 14 consecutive years. He won 16 titles as a professional.

In 1998, he created Yes2Kids, a handball club for children who otherwise would not have access to handball.

In 2003, he was head coach of the handball team at the University of Arizona.