Carver advocate Drew Seath and his friends organized a new special event for the benefit of the Carver community: The Rowayton Racketlon!

This charity racket sports tournament involved participants playing paddle tennis, pickleball, badminton and ping pong, one sport after the other, while observing social distancing rules. 

They called the event the Rowayton Racketlon after the sport rackelton in which competitors play a sequence of the four most popular European racket sports: table tennis, badminton, squash, and tennis.

One set is played in each sport, in the order from the smallest to the biggest racket. Each of the four sets are played with running score to 21 points, with a margin of two points needed to finish a set. The winner of a racketlon match is the player or doubles pair who has won the most points in total. When a player leads a match with more points than there are points left for the opponent to obtain, the match is over. All rules that apply to the four individual sports also apply for racketlon.

The sport originated in Finland and Sweden and was modeled on other combination sports like the triathlon and decathlon.

However these generous Rowayton Carver donors chose to set the rules for their fun and innovative Rowayton Racketlon, Carver students were the winners!