US Team Handball Women's National Team

On May 23rd the US Women’s National Handball Team (WNT) will head to Sao Paulo, Brazil to compete in the 2005 Pan-American Championships. The team is being lead by Head Coach Christian Latulippe, a native of Quebec with over eighteen years’ experience coaching handball, and a total of twelve Canadian national championship titles. In order to qualify for the 2005 World Championships, which will be held in St. Petersburg, Russia this December, the WNT will need to place among the top three out of the six teams in the continental region (USA, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Canada, and the Dominican Republic). This will be the first major international competition for the WNT since the establishment of their year-round residential training program at SUNY Cortland in August 2004.

March 19-20, the Northeast Team Handball Conference hosted their final men's tournament of their season in Cortland (NY). The first three Saturday games concluded the regular season schedule. March 26-27, the Northeast Team Handball Conference hosted their final women's tournament of their season in Laprairie (Quebec, Canada). A total of nine games were played on Saturday and Sunday to finish the regular season.