Handball http://handball.soc.srcf.net/ Cambridge University Handball Club (CUHB) aims to promote handball as a University sport, providing its members with regular training, fixtures, social events, and entry into competitions and tournaments at a regional and national level. Cambridge University Handball Club (CUHB) aims to promote handball as a University sport, providing its members with regular training, fixtures, social events, and entry into competitions and tournaments at a regional and national level. The club was founded only recently, in the beginning of Michaelmas 2013, by a group of undergraduate and graduate students of the University of Cambridge. The founding members are Chris Bentz (Darwin), Ignacio Vazquez Garcia (Christ’s), Kolja Ortmann (Girton), Matt Reizenstein (Caius) and Sophus zu Ermgassen (Fitzwilliam). Agnes Föglein, who is currently a postdoctoral scholar at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, has been also been involved in establishing the club from the start.
In its first year of existence, CUHB more than excelled: It built two strong teams, a women’s and a men’s team, and established links to a number of other clubs, including the Cambridge City Club and the university teams of Imperial College London and University College London. The teams celebrated their first successes with the women’s team winning their Varsity Match and the men’s enrolling the first ever CUHB team in the British University Championships. The men’s team exceeded all expectations in the championships, coming fifth after losing to the subsequent winner, Oxford.
Varsity 2014/15 31st January 2015, University of Cambridge Sports Centre, Cambridge Cambridge Women’s 1sts 21 - Oxford Women’s 1sts 31 Cambridge Men’s 1sts 24 - Oxford Men’s 1sts 31 TThe second Handball Varsity Matches in history were a challenge for both the women’s and the men’s teams. The women’s team went on court to defend their title against a strong Oxford team but they had a completely new team so the little time they had playing together was not enough to withstand a very established Oxford team. The defence worked well mostly, although Oxford pulled away quite quickly to a 5 goal lead. Then, there was a point where Cambridge had a 2 player superiority but unfortunately did not manage to turn the game around. Most of the Cambridge goals come from the centre and left back from Nikkoleta Rau and Ágnes Föglein. It finished in a bitter 21 to 31 but with the hope of a brand new team which was going to improve in a year and have a better chance next time. The strong men’s team around captain Chris Bentz started very well and were leading at the 10 minute mark, the defence was collected and worked perfectly. Florian Ströhl and Chris Bentz scored equally from the back supported by goalkeeper
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