Welcome to CalHeat

Welcome to CalHeat

 

handballstrichCalHeat is an amateur Team Handball Club based in the San Francisco Bay Area. The club consists of both Men's and Women's teams that compete at the highest amateur level in the United States. The teams consist of players from age 15 to 40+ from many different cultural backgrounds, but all living in the greater San Francisco Bay area.
As an amateur club, we do not have team sponsorship and each player is responsible for their own expenses associated with travel and competition
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Although, we intend o­n developing a group responsible for pursuing sponsorship opportunities with the intent o­n raising funds to cover equipment and uniform costs, as well as competition fees.

CalHeat has a great tradition of Team Handball success at the National Level in the United States. The Men's team won the US National Championship in 1984-86 and 1990, a silver medal in 1987 and a bronze medal in 1996, 2001 and 2002.
The Women's team has won the gold medal in 2003 and 2006, the silver medal in 1997-98 and 2004-05, and the bronze medal in 1995-96. Several former US Olympians and US National team members have played for the CalHeat.

CalHeat is also involved with the development of youth Team Handball players by supporting the Centerville Jr. High Team Handball club with coaching and refereeing.

We are always looking for individuals interested in joining our club, including players, coaches and volunteers. Our Vision for this club is to expand our structure to where we have a development feeder system consisting of Jr. and Sr. High School programs that would feed into youth teams (14-16, 16-18, 18-21 yr olds), a Senior Division II team and a Senior Division I team.

If you are guest on this site, please sign our guestbook. We like to know from where you are and if you like team handball as much as we do. Or you can become a member on this site. Beeing a member gives you a lot of advantages. You get actual news around our club and you can use our forums and Instant messaging to contact other CalHeat members.

Calheat to join the 2012 Open National Championships in Minneapolis

161965_34445241956_585874077_nCalheat will be joining the 2012 Open National Championships in Minneapolis from May 18th to May 20th. Let's wish the women and men team good luck and have them bring back some trophies. 

Calheat Smurfs win the Women 2012 Fremont Invitational Tournament

women 2012Calheat Smurfs beat Dynamo Team Handball and Baja California to become the first winner of the Women Fremont Invitational Tournament. See below for Individual recognitions, games results and final standings:

Los Angeles TH 1 wins 2012 Western Regionals and qualifies for Nationals

Los Angeles RegionalsLos Angeles TH 1 and Los Angeles TH 2 place first and second at the 2012 Western Regionals and qualify for the 2012 National Championships in Minneapolis.  CalHeat after beating Las Vegas convincibly and loosing clearly ag

West Point Black wins the 2012 California Cup

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West Point Black takes the 2012 California Cup East for the first time. Neither Vancouver BC., Kagura (Japan), Los Angeles TH nor the home team of San Francisco Calheat could keep up with the speed.   

Newsletter No.2 - December 2011

Dear Valued Handball Friends,

This year is slowly coming to its end. Therefore let me briefly recap Calheat’s successes of this year.

In January of 2011 the Calheat men’s team remained unbeaten at the California Cup and was able to recapture the Cup back from Los Angeles against a very strong field of teams from Canada, Japan and the East Coast of the US.

Newsletter No.1 - November 2011

Dear valued handball friends,

Let me first welcome all of you to the 2011/2012 handball season and thank you all for your great participation so far.

CalHeat Team Handball Video

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San Francisco wins 2011 Bay Area Beach Handball Championship

In a tightly contested best of three series the team from San Francisco prevailed over the team from San Jose with 2 wins and one loss.  Both teams fought very hard and never gave up.  This forced all games into penalty shoot outs to determine the winner. Overall it was a fun weekend for everybody and a great early start into the new season.

  

 


San Francisco CalHeat and Smurfs place both 5th at the 2011 US National Championships

San Francisco CalHeat and Smurfs repeated their success from last years Nationals and placed again 5th overall.

Heartbreaking losses in the prelimenary round barred both teams from advancing to the semifinals and having a shot at the aimed medals.

CalHeat Wins 2011 Western Regionals and Remains Undefeated in the West

West Region 2011CalHeat remains undefeated and beats teams from Denver, Salt Lake City, Seattle and Los Angeles at 2011 Western Regionals at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs.

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CalHeat Wins Back the 2011 California Cup

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San Francisco CalHeat wins 2010 Bay Area Beach Handball Championship

DSC_0056San Francisco CalHeat claimed the 2010 Bay Area Beach Handball Championship in a best of three series against the Berkley Golden Bears on Saturday August 7th 2010 in Aptos, CA.

CalHeat and Smurfs place both 5th at 2010 National Championship in Las Vegas. Los Angeles (M) and Houston (W) take the Gold.

IMG_6595The San Francisco CalHeat and the California Smurfs team handball teams both take 5th place at the 2010 National Championship in Las Vegas.

CalHeat places second at 2010 Western Regional and qualifies for 2010 National Championships.

CalHeat 2010 West RegionCalHeat looses the final of the 2010 Western Regional Championship to LA THC with a score of 20 to 21.

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