Our friends from Oregon, lead by Jan Vanderstraeten, are developing Youth Team Handball in elementary schools: The kids called themselves the Quatschi Club, after the only team in Portland: Team Handball Club, “Portland Sasquatch” and after the fact they make a lot of Quatsch. In the camps, we offer an intense and active, skill-driven curriculum […]
Author: Martin Bilello
Team Handball Tryouts Scheduled for USA Men’s and Women’s Team
USATH is informing of the upcoming tryouts for the National Teams: Tryouts are conducted at the famous Beard-Eaves Memorial Coliseum on the campus at Auburn University. The Men’s National Team has a scheduled tryout on October 15th, 2016. The Women’s National Team has scheduled tryouts for October 29th-30th and December 17th-18th, 2016. To register, please […]
The Washington Post asks: Why are we so bad at handball?
Adam Kilgore, from The Washington Post, asks a very painful and real question about the state of Team Handball in America. At many levels, it makes no sense. America has the right kind of athletes with the right kind of sports backgrounds. True, they have no incentives to play handball, but disregard that for a moment: […]
Rio 2016 Olympic Handball: Review and Predictions
In this Team Handball News podcast episode John Ryan and Christer Ahl review group play at the halfway point. Surprises, disappointments and predictions for the quarterfinals. Follow the link
Calling all U.S. athletes: Handball needs you
Martin Rogers from USA TODAY Sports makes the calling we keep doing every year. This is a public service announcement aimed at any college basketball player, soccer goalkeeper, lacrosse player, football recruit (skill positions preferred), water polo junkie, wrestler or women’s softball exponent. If you’re watching the Rio Olympics and wish you were taking part, but […]
New Handball Rules in Rio 2016
Our friend John Ryan from Team Handball News is joined on his podcast by Christer Ahl to discuss the recent rule changes implemented by the IHF that are being used at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. Follow the links for the two parts of the discussion: Podcast: New Handball Rules (Part 1) Podcast: New Handball Rules […]
Handball according to The Ringer
Micah Peters, Staff writer for The Ringer gives his impression of Olympic Handball: OK, so, handball is essentially an amalgam of every team sport there is, and it’s awesome. There are faint undertones and flagrant overtones of everything from basketball to football to American football to lacrosse, and a lot of things in between. Floor-spreading, […]
Handball Is Awesome
Getting you pumped for Rio 2016!
2016 USATH Open Championships Results
By Coco The 2016 USATH Open Championships was held May 14th-16th at the Utz Arena at the York Expo Center in Pennsylvania. San Francisco Calheat Women started their tournament against Boston on Friday May 14th. Boston came through as a strong team as usual but with a good defense and the amazing job of their […]
We are going to Nationals 2016!
Our Men’s and Women’s teams are preparing to travel to the 2016 USATH Open Championships. Our players will be traveling on Wednesday and Thursday to York, PA for this year edition. http://www.teamusa.org/…/2016/May/13/2016-National-Champion… Women’s team selection – Players: Agustina A., Constance D., Giulia G., Isabella D., Jessica W., Kathrine A., Laura S., Mari Carmen M., Michelle […]
2016 CALIFORNIA CUP X – INVITATIONAL TOURNAMENT
Please come and join us for our 10th annual California Cup Invitational Tournament (a Western USA Team Handball League and USATH Sanctioned tournament) on January 29th, 30th and 31st 2016. As every year men teams from the US, Canada, Mexico and Japan compete in a highly competitive manner. We also would like to invite women […]
CalHeat Men Dominates Vancouver Tournament
San Francisco CalHeat Men were the defending Champions of the BC Cup in Vancouver, Canada this past November 14 and 15, and they defended the crown in form. They played every other team and remained undefeated throughout the tournament. With scores of 36-11 versus Vancouver II, 28-18 against Seattle, 32-18 with Portland, and finally, […]
CalHeat Women gets Bronze Medal at Chicago Tournament
This season started early for the CalHeat Women team as they flew to Chicago to participate on the traditional Michael Lipov Memorial Tournament. Competition started with two tough losses for the Smurfs as they went 15 – 20 against Alberta and 17 – 20 against the local Chicago Inter Black. But things started to look […]
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