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 […]
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3rd Edition of Youth California Cup Sees New Champions
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 […]
IOC vote opens gates for youth development in the US
The International Olympic Committee on Tuesday voted in favor of awarding the hosting rights for the 2024 and 2028 Olympic Games at the same session in September, pending agreements with Paris and Los Angeles. Why is this news so exiting for USA Team Handball? The USA have failed to qualify for the Olympic Games since […]
SF CalHeat Women went to USATH Open Nationals 2017
For this year’s nationals, the SF CalHeat women team traveled to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina with high hopes of performing well and accomplishing a better standing than the previous season. This year Calheat had a full roster of very strong players from different nationalities; it is always great to see the women team grow from […]
SF CalHeat Women and Men’s teams going to USATH’s 2017 National Championships
San Francisco CalHeat Team Handball Club will be sending one women’s team along with one men’s team to USATH’s 2017 National Championships held in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina on the weekend of May 19th – 21st . Our players are looking forward to represent the Bay Area during this tournament, and will be joined by […]
SF CalHeat runs Tryouts for Youth National Team Selection
On Friday, February 24th, volunteers from SF CalHeat organized and ran the West Region Tryouts for the upcoming Youth National Team selection. The U.S. announced its intention to participate for the first time in the Pan American Championships to be played in Chile in April, where the 5 best teams will qualify for the World […]
Youth Pan American Championships
USA Team Handball just announced its intention to compete in the 2017 Men’s Youth (U19) Pan American Championships in Chile, which is the qualification tournament for the VII Men’s Youth World Championships in Tbilisi, Georgia in August. All players eligible to compete in the Youth Pan American Championships must be valid U.S. passport holders and […]
First Youth California Cup Hosted by SF CalHeat
On November 5th SF CalHeat Team Handball Club hosted the first Youth Team Handball tournament in the history of the Bay Area. At the Centerville Junior High Gym, in Fremont, Sterne School, Stanbridge Academy, Lycée Français de San Francisco, and Bayhill High School competed in 2 x 20 min. games against each other with Sterne taking […]
Youth Team Handball Development in Chicago
On the new edition of his podcast, John Ryan talks with Craig Rot about his effort for developing Team Handball in the Midwest: For the past 7 years Craig Rot has been at the forefront of youth development in the U.S., first in Minnesota and now in the Chicago area. In this wide ranging podcast […]
First Youth California Cup on November 5th 2016
For the first time ever, San Francisco CalHeat Team Handball Club will be hosting the Youth California Cup on November 5th at the traditional Centerville Junior High Gym. The excitement for the event can be felt throughout the team handball community as it signifies the growing of the sport, not only in the bay area, […]
CalHeat Shows Team Handball to Santa Clara School District
On Monday, October 17th, several members of CalHeat participated on a Team Handball workshop aimed at showing the sport to Physical Education Teachers from the Santa Clara Unified School District. The attendance was of more than 30 and every one of them was excited about learning a new sport to teach their students. Some of […]
Podcast: High School Handball in the Bay Area
Our friend John Ryan in his last podcast takes a look at CalHeat efforts to develop Team Handball in the Bay Area. It’s not every day that U.S. high schools compete against each other in handball. Outside of a league in Montgomery County Maryland this is the only other league that I’m aware of. To […]
CalHeat comes back with Bronze from fall-colored Montreal
Fall and its colorful foliage had covered Montreal as San Francisco’s CalHeat flew across the country and border to attend “le tournoi de l’action de grace”. The tournament hosted by the Montreal Celtic Handball Club featured US (Boston, San Francisco, West Point) as well as Canadian (Laval, Sherbrooke, Montreal, Québec) teams. The level of handball […]
First Game of Youth League a Success
On Wednesday, October 5th, at the Lycée Français de San Francisco, the kickoff of the first ever season of the Bay Area Youth Team Handball League took place. It was a sunny and very windy afternoon, but everyone involved was excited about the game and the historic implications of such an event. Before even the […]
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