It’s that time of the year again! Our men’s team will be competing this weekend at the 7th annual Valley of the Sun tournament in Phoenix, AZ. Historically, our team has always performed well in Arizona. In the last two years, our first team won the tournament undefeated and will try to lift the trophy […]
The 14th edition of our annual California Cup concluded this past weekend with three medals for our teams – never seen so far. In a very interesting women’s division, Alberta conquered the gold by defeating all the other opponents. It’s the second time in our tournament history that the Canadians raffle the prize after their […]
This season marks the 20th anniversary of two major figures of our club. With our California Cup only a couple days away, we discussed the past, present and future of Calheat with them. What’s your name, age, and role in the club? [Bernward]: Bernward, 51, currently President of San Francisco CalHeat [Jean-Marc]: Jean-marc, 51, Vice-President […]
A year after, both our (women and men) teams repeated their performance and won the Texas Cup – undefeated! In an expanded women’s division (4 teams), the team led by Tina Alavanja brilliantly defeated all their opponents by a significant margin. In the final, the team went on to beat the Alberta Youth Elite team […]
This upcoming weekend, on December 7 and 8, our elite women and men teams will attend the third edition of the Texas Cup in Dallas. Hosted by Dallas Team Handball Club, the 2019 Texas Cup will feature a total of 12 teams from all corners of the nation and Canada. In the women’s division, four […]
In its fourth edition, our Bay Area Youth Handball League is winding down and only 9 games are left to play. Make sure to follow the action and check out the schedule: High School and Middle School. It is clear by now that on the Middle School side, Bret Harte and Castillero has had a […]
The 2019-20 season is just about to start. Both our women and men’s teams will compete at the Michael Lipov Memorial Cup in Chicago, IL (Oct 25-27). In this new season, our women’s team has higher ambitions but takes this tournament (so as the upcoming Texas Cup) as a preparation for the more important milestones: […]
We knew from the beginning that the 2019 edition of Partille Cup was going to be a very important milestone for the youth Team Handball movement, so we started the process of participation early enough, even without knowing for sure if we were going to pull it off. For this first participation we decided to […]
After our third youth season was over, we knew the next logical step would be to assemble an Elite team, combining the best players from our league, and go and compete at a National Youth Tournament. Since the US does not have such a tournament yet, the best option was to participate at the Canadian […]
The wait is now over! 29 years after its last gold medal, San Francisco CalHeat Men conquers the National title in one of the most epic and thrilling finals of the last decade. The ‘golden boys’ finished this season with an impressive 23-0-1 run, winning all major events (M. Lipov Memorial Cup, Texas Cup, California […]
One year ago, we’ve left our women and men’s teams with a little feel of disappointment after ending up ‘only’ third at their home tournament. This year’s competition was fiercer. The men’s division regrouped eight teams, and among them, the USA Team Handball reigning champion (NYC Team Handball Club), former winners Chicago Inter Handball (2018, […]
Last November, our club embarked on a journey with one of the world’s largest sporting goods retailers, Decathlon USA (1,400+ stores in more than 40 countries). The French Giant (re)established in the Bay Area in 2017 and aims at supporting local sports communities in their development goals. In this go-round, Decathlon is also offering […]
Last weekend, the US Men’s National Team conducted a training camp in Puerto Rico. Under the command of Robert Hedin, some of the best players in the nation reunited for practice and scrimmages against the Puerto Rico Senior & Junior National Teams. Among all these exceptional athletes, Aaron Johnson, one of the rare US citizen […]
The season had started on top form with all 10 teams from the Youth Team Handball Bay Area League competing on a record number of games throughout the Bay Area reaching more than 30 games combined. Almost all of them played a home and away series between them. Five teams competed on the High School […]
This year the Texas Cup organized a best of four games series between San Francisco CalHeat and Houston Firehawks women teams alongside the men’s tournament. These match-ups were held in a hope to establish a women’s tournament in the years to come. Games between CalHeat and Houston Firehawks Women have proven in the past that […]
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