This weekend Cambridge University Handball Club travelled to Kent to participate in the first round of the University Championships. It was an intense weekend which involved playing against all the other teams in our groups in matches lasting 30 minutes each. The Men’s Team won 4 out of their 5 matches (and drew in the fifth match) and the Women’s… Read more →
Tuesdays, 6pm to 8pm, Cambridge University Sports Centre Sunday*, 12pm to 2pm, Chesterton Sports Centre * first training: Sunday, Oct 7th; for the first three weeks, the Sunday training will be an hour longer (12pm – 3pm) and split into experienced (first half) and new (second half) players
Heya! Hope you’ve all been enjoying your summers! We’re in the thick of preparing for the coming 2018/19 season and we have some exciting stuff coming your way: To give everybody the chance to play competitively, we will – for the first time ever – have three teams in Uni Champs: two men’s, one women’s! We will start off into… Read more →
Cambridge vs Oxford (Men) The University Championships opened for us with a preview of the varsity match, as we faced Oxford first. With only three weeks of training and plenty of new additions to the team we had to face the two strongest teams in our group both on the same day. Oxford had the throw off but from the beginning… Read more →
Come and join us for the first University handball training of the season on Tuesday, 9. October at 6:00pm! Everyone is welcome, even if it’s your first time playing handball! We will afterwards head to The Grain & Hop Store ( goo.gl/uvMnvv ) for food and drinks. It’s a good chance to meet cool people and play one of the best sports… Read more →
On March 5th, Cambridge University Handball Club hosted the fourth annual Varsity matches against Oxford. On brand-new lines in the University Sport Centre, the men threw off first at 12.30 pm. With a strong defence and efficient attacks, Cambridge already led by 7 goals at half time. The second half continued with a stronger Oxford team, yet, many fast breaks… Read more →
Although we had just returned from the winter break, with only three weeks until the first round of Uni Champs, we decided to test the team with two friendly matches: Imperial and UCL agreed to visit Cambridge on a Sunday morning to play us in a friendly mini-tournament. Cambridge vs Imperial (16-14) After a short warm up the game was… Read more →
Socials Training, playing, fighting and winning are all just parts of the handball experience. We are first and foremost a team. As is a tradition in handball clubs all over the world, we finish training by going to the pub or College bar together. Socials don’t stop there: The year 2015/2016 has seen socials ranging from dinners with national cuisine… Read more →
This year’s Varsity was a chance for Cambridge to come back from the double loss of the previous year, and it brought with it a victory and a loss. To women’s team faced an uphill battle from the start against a strong Oxford team, which later went on to win the title of University Champion 2016. Despite their spirited performance,… Read more →
This year’s British University Handball Championship proved to be as exciting as expected: The Cambridge men’s entered the competition as defending champion and the Cambridge women’s won their first UniChamps title in the plate finals. In the first round, the Cambridge men’s went through with a clean sweep winning against all opposing teams. Moving on, the team faced strong opponents… Read more →