September – final call for NSW Seniors for Nationals

Senior Nationals squads are underway for the upcoming Nationals October 5-8 being held in Sydney.

Interested players who haven’t yet made contact with the coaches re: training sessions, please do so quickly as we have uniforms and other logistics to arrange.

Players are eligible for selection if they’ve played 5 games in the last 12 months and made themselves available to trial. Given it’s been a sparse couple of seasons, if you’re a regular player who hasn’t met these requirements, please do talk to the coaches and seek an exemption.

Some States are seeking players to support their squads and NSW wants to support these. NSW requires players planning to do this to trial for NSW first so please also be in contact so we can let any other States needing support know.

Contact us via the New South Wales Handball Facebook page.

September – NSW Junior Women National Champs

The NSW Women’s U18 and U21 teams are the Australian champions for 2017, and the U18 and U21 Men runners up to Queensland. The Australian Championships were held at Sydney Olympic Park between September 2-3.

Thanks to our Coaches Kim Briggs, Tessa Hayn, assisted by Lucas Turecek and Manager Michelle Mekler-Peled and Uniform manager Sunny Fong. Thanks to Queensland and our parents and supporters.

July – Trials for NSW U18 & U21 teams starts July 20

Australian Junior Nationals will be held in Sydney on the 1-3rd September.

NSW training and selection for U18 and U21 men and women’s teams will be held on the following nights at the Sports Centre, Olympic Park (ie. not our regular venue but down past the Aquatic Centre on Olympic Blvde):

Thursday 20 July 6-7:30
Monday 24 July 6-7:30
Thursday 27 July 6-7:30
Rest week
Monday 7 August 6-7:30
Thursday 10 August 6:30-8
Thursday 17 August 6-7:30
Monday 21 August 6-7:30
Monday 28 August 6-7:30
Thursday 31 August 6-9

A Facebook event has been created for each session so please confirm attendance and invite your friends. Looking forward to seeing new and experienced players there!
Follow our New South Wales Facebook page for updates https://www.facebook.com/New-South-Wales-Handball-Association-350769085015649/

July – NSW U17 players at Beach World Champs in Mauritius

Best wishes for our NSW U17 players in the Australian Men’s and Women’s teams playing in the U17 World Championships in Mauritius between July 11-16. The first day of competition sees the Men first up playing Portugal and then Italy in the afternoon and the Women play Portugal and then Spain. Best wishes all.
The playing schedule is on the IHF site (Mauritius is 6 hours behind AEST).
IHF website playing schedule

May – Turramurra & Fairvale NSW Handball Schools Champs

Nine schools participated in Female and nine in the Male categories at the Sports Centre at Sydney Olympic Park, a mix of regular competitions and some news schools.

Defenders and runners up Turramurra and Fairvale made the finals in both categories, with Turramurra winning the girls on Tuesday and Fairvale the Boys on Wednesday.

New Schools Balgowlah Boys and Rosebank College played the 3/4 in the boys and the rankings were as follows.

Girls event
1st TURRAMARRA H.S.
2nd FAIRVALE H.S
3rd WILLIAM CLARKE H.S.
4th ROSEBANK COLLEGE
5th OUR LADY MERCY COLLEGE
6th HILLS GRAMMAR SCHOOL
7th SEFTON H.S.
8th MARY MACKILLOP CATHOLIC COLLEGE
9th HURLSTONE PARK AGRICULTURAL H.S.

Top scorer-ANNA JOHANSSON (TURRAMURRA)
Best goalkepper-TEMUKISA LOANE (FAIRVALE H.S.)
Fairest team – HURLSTONE AGRICULTURAL H.S.

Boys event
1st FAIRVALE H.S.
2nd TURRAMURRA H.S
3rd ROSEBANK COLLEGE
4th BALGOWLAH BOYS H.S.
5th SEFTON H.S.
6th HILLS GRAMMAR SCHOOL
7th CRONULLA H.S.
8th HURLSTONE AGRICULTURAL H.S.
9th WILLIAM CLARKE COLLEGE

Top Scorer – LESLIE SEFO (FAIRVALE)
Best goalkeeper – MITCHELL CUNNINGHAN (TURRAMURRA)
Fairest team – SEFTON HIGH SCHOOL

Thanks to the Sports Halls for relocating us. Thanks especially to all our participating schools and to our volunteers and parents. We look forward to seeing you all again next year.

March – Schools Championships May 15-17

Invitations to schools have been sent for the 2017 NSW Schools’ Championships to be held at the Sports Halls, Sydney Olympic Park. For the first time this year a Primary School event is planned for Monday May 15. The High Schools’ events follow, with Women on May 16 and men on May 17. Please be in contact if your school has not yet received an invite! Inquiries via nswhandballschools@gmail.com