The USA Team Handball Women’s National Team will host the Women’s National Handball Teams from Canada and Guadeloupe for a four day friendly international tournament starting Dec. 17 at the Beard-Eaves Memorial Coliseum.
Both Canada and the US will have two teams representing either country for a total of five teams entering the tournament.
The USA Women’s team looks forward to reuniting with familiar faces of the National Team Player Pool for the Winter Classic. Several players will travel from overseas and within the states to join the residency players in Auburn.
This week the players will start their training camp in preparation for the upcoming Winter Classic, which will be a good competition to prepare the team for the Pan American Games Qualifier next year which is the next step on the road to RIO 2016.
Competition gets underway at 5:30 p.m. CT on Wednesday, Dec. 17, Thursday, Dec. 18, and Friday, Dec. 19 before concluding at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 20. Each day will feature two games between the teams. The Second game will follow shortly after the first game concludes.
Free general admission is sponsored by the Auburn-Opelika Tourism Bureau. To learn more about USA Team Handball and how to get involved visit www.usateamhandball.org. Contact Beth Witten at blueturtlebeth@gmail.com for more information regarding sponsorship and donation packages.
From the Archives — originally published on the Opelika Daily News on December 11, 2014. View the original page.
