San Francisco CalHeat is a

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club from the San Francisco Bay Area. It has approximately 100 members (adult and youth), and five teams (women, men and youth). The top women's and men's teams compete at the highest level in the United States and have won the national championships multiple times. The women's and men's teams are the current USA Team Handball reigning national champion. On the last weekend of January, San Francisco CalHeat traditionally hosts the

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tournament. This is a USA Team Handball sanctioned event and qualifier for the

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. The main sponsors of the club are Waymo, RockTape and the

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. In January 2020, San Francisco CalHeat signed a multi-year partnership with Hummel, the

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of sportswear brand based in

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History

The club was founded in 1984 following the continuously growing interest of

in the San Francisco Bay Area. Back in 1979, Ray Gehrke, considered one of the founding fathers of the sport in California, began an intramural handball program at the Centerville Jr. High School. San Francisco CalHeat was subsequently created in an effort to centralize

activities in one area. In 2011, San Francisco CalHeat became a non-profit organization exempt from Federal income tax under section 501 (3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Under the leadership of Bernward Schwarte, President, and

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, Vice-President, the club has significantly grown ever since. In 2016, San Francisco CalHeat started a youth development program and handball league involving numerous schools in the San Francisco Bay Area such as

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and

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. In 2019, the program culminated with the organization of summer and winter camps led by Claus Dalgaard-Hansen, former member of the

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, and David Degouy, assistant coach and handball academy director of Montpellier Handball. In 2019, the club got even more exposure abroad after

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, player of

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and longstanding member of the

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, helped the team win the US men's national championship In 2021, the club won the North American and Caribbean Men's Club Championship and qualified for the IHF Super Globe. For their inaugural participation, the team finished at the 10th place losing against AlWehda, the Saudi Arabian champion,

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, and Al Duhail, the

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. In 2022, the club won another US Men's National Championship in

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. This is the sixth national title for the men's team, bringing them closer to the all-time greats New York Athletic Club and New York City THC. One year later, in 2023, the club won both the US Men's National Championship and the Women's Open Division in Spokane, Washington. This is the first time a US handball club wins both the men's and women's national competition in the same year. This also marks the seventh national title for the men's team, tied with New York City THC. A few months later, the club won the North American and Caribbean Men's Club Championship and qualified for the IHF Super Globe. At the 2023 IHF Super Globe, the team recorded its inaugural win against University of Queensland (27-22), marking the first ever win in the competition's history for a US and North American club team. On October 9, 2023, San Francisco CalHeat became the 105th member of

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, following in the footsteps of New York City THC and

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Sports Facility Information

*Name: – Ray Gehrke Court *City: –

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*Capacity: – 1,000

Accomplishments

International

* IHF Men's Super Globe **

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: 10th **

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: 10th * North American and Caribbean Senior Club Championship **

: **

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: **

National

** Men's Elite Division *** :

1984 Events January * January 1 – The Bornean Sultanate of Brunei gains full independence from the United Kingdom, having become a British protectorate in 1888. * January 7 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast A ...

1985 The year 1985 was designated as the International Youth Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** The Internet's Domain Name System is created. ** Greenland withdraws from the European Economic Community as a result of a ...

1986 The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the Netherlands Antilles. **Spain and Portugal ente ...

1990 File:1990 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1990 FIFA World Cup is played in Italy; The Human Genome Project is launched; Voyager I takes the famous Pale Blue Dot image- speaking on the fragility of Humankind, humanity on Earth, Astroph ...

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*** :

1987 File:1987 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes after leaving the Port of Zeebrugge in Belgium, killing 193; Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashes after takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport, k ...

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*** :

1996 File:1996 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: A Centennial Olympic Park bombing, bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, set off by a radical Anti-abortion violence, anti-abortionist; The center fuel tank explodes on TWA Flight 8 ...

2001 The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a Participants in ...

2002 File:2002 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 2002 Winter Olympics are held in Salt Lake City; Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and her daughter Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon die; East Timor gains East Timor independence, indepe ...

** Women's Open Division *** :

2003 File:2003 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The crew of STS-107 perished when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during reentry into Earth's atmosphere; SARS became an epidemic in China, and was a precursor to SARS-CoV-2; A des ...

2006 File:2006 Events Collage V1.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2006 Winter Olympics open in Turin; Twitter is founded and launched by Jack Dorsey; The Nintendo Wii is released; Montenegro 2006 Montenegrin independence referendum, votes to declare ...

*** :

1997 File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of t ...

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The '' Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently ...

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 6 ...

2005 File:2005 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico; the Funeral of Pope John Paul II is held in Vatican City; "Me at the zoo", the first video ever to be uploaded to YouTube; Eris was discovered in ...

*** :

1995 File:1995 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: O.J. Simpson is O. J. Simpson murder case, acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman from the 1994, year prior in "The Trial of the Century" in the United States; The ...

** Men's Open Division *** :

** Men's Youth Division *** : 2023 *** :

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, the 2020 and 2021

were cancelled.''

Teams

Men's first team

:''Squad for the 2023–24 season'' ;Goalkeepers *1

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* 32 Omar Bentahar * 99 Hamadi Balti ;Left Wingers *3 Raphael Renault * 25

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* 38 Theodor Skogsholm ;Right Wingers * 24

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* 36 Paul Assfalg * 51 Yannik te Morsche ;Line players * 15 Andrew Donlin * 52 Jonathan Anthony Garcia * 64 Benoit Crouzit ;Left Backs * 14 Maximilian Paulus * 54 Hjalte Nordquist Clausen * 63 Ole Andreas Olsen ;Central Backs *6 Tsai Hsien (Joseph) Kuo * 11

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* 17 Florian Schöbinger * 53 Kasper Ogendahl * 61

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( c) ;Right Backs * 19

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* 62 Zuwed Akuro ;Coach * Danilo Rojevic *

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Women's first team

:''Squad for the 2022–23 season'' ;Goalkeepers *1 Athena Del Rosario * 66 Janine McDonald ;Left Wingers * 33

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* 43 Kerstin Kraemer * 75

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;Right Wingers *6 Padideh Deris * 12 Marine Dunoguier * 45 Constance Duvert ;Line players *8 Maria Florencia D'Innocenzo ( c) * 40

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;Left Backs * 15 Michelle Mensing * 31

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* 41 Simona Cipaian ;Central Backs *5 Ines Resano Goizueta * 32 Marina Fidalgo ;Right Backs *3

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* 23 Liubovi Gurgurova * 52

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;Coach *

Kristina Alavanja Kristina may refer to: Places *the Swedish name of Ristiina, a town in Finland People *the Swedish name of Christina of Sweden * Kristina (born 1987), Slovak singer * Kristina Adolphson (born 1937), Swedish actress * Kristina Apgar (born 1985), ...

References

External links

* Handball clubs established in 1984 1984 establishments in California Handball clubs in the United States {{Handball-club-stub