Coming matches

UCD men have a match this Sunday in St.Columbas against Dublin International, its quite early with the match starting at 9.30 so we will be meeting in UCD at about 8.20, I will organise transport for us so I need to know who is playing, it will be a tough match so we really need all players available.

On December 11th there is a beginners league tournament for both men and women on in Cork and after winning the first event ehich was on last Saturday we need a team to go to Cork, everyone is invited to this! the best form of transport to Cork is by bus which is quite cheap and if you book train tickets online they are sometimes very cheap and much faster. The Cork team brought up a lot of players last weekend so we should try to do the same, many of us have exams that day but for those who don't, please try to make the effort, let me know.


Alex will be back coaching us on Friday so thank god for that :D

Senior League 10-11, Div 1

The Senior Leagues 2010/2011 fianlly start.
There will be 4 men's and 3 women's teams battling for the title of Irish champion.
Astra, Lughnasa, UCD have teams in both competition. Dublin International will defend its title of top Irish team in the men's competition only.
Check the calendar on the right sidebar for full schedule.
Here this weekend matches. UCD sport hall, Belfield Dublin 4.
UCD – Lughnasa, Men, 12.30pm
Dub Int - Astra , Men, 2.00pm
UCD – Lughnasa, Ladies, 3.30pm

Corn Chrothrom na Féinne

First match and first Trophy of the season.

On Sunday 31st of October UCD OHC and ASTRA HC will challenge each other for the Corn Chrothrom Féinne.

Matches are at 1.30 pm men ; 3.30 pm Ladies. UCD Sport Centre

This is the first edition of a trophy born to celebrate the unique link and friendship between the two Clubs.

Probably not many knows that ASTRA HANDBALL CLUB is a "spin off" of UCD Olympic Handball Club. In fact you can find the name ASTRA naming various location on Campus.

Astra means "star" in latin.

The name of this trophy is also taken from UCD history. Corn Chrothrom Féinne, for all those that do not speak Irish, it means Fair Play Cup.

The Old UCD logo can explain many things!

Training Stop and go...

There will be no training on Friday 17th and for the entire next week.
Hall B in the sport centre will be used for the sport expo. It is a good chance to get in touch with the club. Senior players will be available at the Olympic Handball Stand with any informations you need.

Training will resume Monday 27th at 5pm!

New Training times for UCD

From September 13th the new trainig times will be:
Monday 5-6, HallB+area7
Friday 5-6.30, HallB

Reminders and Summer Handball

A couple of reminders:

• Sunday May 16th in UCD at 3pm there will be a friendly match with a mixed men and ladies team from Sligo.
• Little tournament on Saturday June 5th , again in UCD. Unfortunately only the men team will come over from Spain, as the ladies did well in their league and they are up in some final.
• The traditional Summer Handball starts again! Starting with Thursday the 13th of May, Handball Open Sessions will take place every thursday in UCD from 8 till 10pm, everybody is welcome to join!!!

Next dates April 25th-May 9th,16th-June 5th

Sunday 25th of April in UCD there will be matches for ladies and men.
This are semifinal: who wins goes to the legue final.

Sunday 9th of May in UCD. Finals for both ladies and men.

Mark the above dates on your calendar and confirm to me you can make it.

Sunday May 16th in UCD there will be friendly matches with teams from Sligo. Again both Ladies and men.

Finally a little tournament on Saturday June 5th , again in UCD. Two Spanish team are coming over (ladies and men).

Please leave a note confirming your presence

Astra Handball Club - COACHING FORUM, May 23rd

Astra Handball Club is Organising a Coaching Forum on Sunday the 23rd of May in the UCD Sport Centre, from 2pm till 5 pm.

This Forum is open to everybody involved or wishing to be involved in coaching.

FORUM means a place where people meets and talks (FORUM is the Latin word for square). A chance to give everybody the possibility to express their feelings, ideas, extern problems, and put forward suggestions

There will be discussions on the general status of technical and tactical development of players and coaches in Ireland, and try to come up with a suggestion on where the focus and energy should be put for the next year and in the medium term.

A Forum as said before, not coaching course. An event where we all talk. The intent is to give as much support as possible to young coaches so they feel more supported, confident and focused.

People can Register by filling the form at the link below by May 7th.
http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dEdOQnJydzNDclZVTzlkRHRoVThuR2c6MA

The form has a comments section where to leave a note about any topic people would like to discuss.

Sunday 28th Matches

We will be playing two matches this weekend in UCD
1.30pm SM Astra-UCD and Kevin farewell
3.15pm SF Terenure-UCD

These are starting-time, so be there 50 min in advance, specially the boys as we have to set up the hall.

Next time UCD hall will be available will be April 25th and May 2nd (bankholiday weekend)
keep yourself available for those days.

Next match March 21st

UCD hall is available for our home matches on March 21st from 1pm till 5pm.
We have a number of matches to reschedule for that weekend. Don't know who yet, but two matches will be played there, one ladies and one men's match.
Leave a comment either in the comment link (click on "comments" on this post) or in the box on the right sidebar.

On a social level. After Tara it is Jorge turn to celebrate his birthday with a party at his place this Saturday 13th. ask him for details.
Happy Birthday!

March 7th Matches

Three matches are scheduled for next weekend Sun 7th Mar, 2010,
UCD hall B, Belfield D4
SM UCD-Dub Int 10:45am
SM Astra-DCU 1:00pm
SF UCD - Meath 3:00pm

leave a note in comment or in the CHAT BOX IN THE RIGHT if you can make it.

February 28th Matches

Two matches are scheduled for next weekend
Sun 28th Feb, 2010, in UCD hall B, Belfield d4
SM UCD-Dublin International 12:30pm
SF UCD-Terenure 3.00pm

ALSO SEE NEW CHAT BOX IN THE RIGHT SIDEBAR
leave a note if you can play...or can't, so we all know!!

December 6th matches

Two matches are scheduled for next weekend, but the Men's match is very likely to be postponed.
ladies instead will play regularly.

Sun Dec 6, 2009
SM DCU-Astra - To be Confimed
SF 10:30am – 1:30pm Terenure-UCD - Tallaght, Dublin

UCD Astra next matches

Next round of matches for the UCD Teams is going to be Sunday 29th November in UCD:

1:21pm - 3:20pm SM UCD-Astra - venue UCD
3:31pm – 5:21pm SF UCD-Terenure - venue UCD

can Ladies be there for the men's match to help with score keeping?
can the lads stay for the ladies match for reffing and score keeping?

New season

Summer handball is finished and it is time to start thinking at next season.
Training in Ballinteer will start Wednesday 16th of September 2009, at 7p till 9pm.

Training in UCD (Monday 5-6 and Wednesday 5-7) will start with the week of the 28th of September.

Men's team is planning to start the season with a training camp in Sligo on the weekend 3rd and 4th October.

Hope to see you all soon. Leave a note if you wish.

UCD training 23rd July

Hi All,

The Thursday 8-10pm time slot has become available again and the sports centre has been good enough to block book it for us.

Dublin International is having their fund-raiser on Thursday and I think people should go and support them, but I will still be at UCD for those that prefer to train. I paid for the hall before I realised that the DI event is this week.

Training 8-10pm at UCD sports centre.

Summer Friendly Handball

all, Next Open session will be Thursday the 11th of June. 8-10pm. In UCD obviously.

save the link below. there I'l put when handball is on, so it is visible

http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=hs2cflj6ve2hapngulg6cokseo%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=Europe/Dublin

Summer Friendly Handball

Summer Handball started in UCD last week.
we could not book a fixed day for the entire summer, so we will book week by week.
look at this space or the calendar on the right sidebar to find out when handball is on (check for Friendly Handball title).

next session will be Tuesday 2nd of June at 8pm.

Also bring some little money as we need to share the costs.

UCD wins Intervarsity

On May 26th

UCD Olympic Handball won the 2008/2009 Intervarsity Championship

in a close match won by two goals vs Trinity College.

Special Thanks to Chris O'Reilly from UCD who organised the event in collaboration with CUSAI .

Women's finals

UCD won the Women's semifinal and have access to the 2008/2009 Finals where they will play St.Pat's for the title.
UCD - Terenure 25-11

Women's Final will be played in UCD on the 10th of May at 1.30pm
St.Pat's - UCD