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 […]
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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 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 […]
Youth Team Handball Growing In The Bay
On Saturday September 17th SF CalHeat started the indoor season on a very promising note by hosting a Team Handball clinic for High Schools in the Bay Area. In what will be the inaugural season of the first Bay Area Youth Team Handball League, the clinic had the participation of Lycée Français de San Francisco, Sterne […]
How Good Really Is The U.S. At Beach Handball?
Our friends John Ryan and Ebiye Udo-Udoma meet on a new edition of Team Handball News Podcast to discuss really how good the U.S. is at Beach Handball and the future of the sport. The interview covers Ebiye’s journey from regular handball to the beach version and how the U.S. team was able to quickly […]
A warm start to the season!
Whilst most of the Bay Area was either at the Burning Man or discussing the class struggle unfolding there, the San Francisco CalHeat men and women’s teams braved the labor day traffic on their way to the 10th annual Southern California Beach Handball Tournament in Huntington Beach, CA. The tournament was organized by LATHC and […]
The Handball Fever Spreads Across America
Make sure you come to our first practice of the season to try it out! Schedule our Facebook Event Here are just a couple of examples of how Team Handball fever has spread across America thanks to the recent Olympics.
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: […]
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 […]
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