West Point Team Handball

West Point Team Handball
West Point Team Handball
Full name	West Point Team Handball
Short name	WPTHB
Founded	1976
Arena	Arvin Gymnasium
Head coach	CPT Dylan Hyde
Captain	Gary Phillips and Aidan Halloran
League	The Northeast Team Handball League
Club colours
	Website ; Official site

West Point Team Handball is a handball club from West Point, New York, United States. They are the handball team of the United States Military Academy. They play with four teams at various competitions. There are two teams for each gender. The West Point Black team (men and women) is the first team and the West Point Gold team (men and women) is the second team. They have won the most College National Championships in their collegiate league with the men's team winning 38 College National Championships, with their 16th consecutive College National Championship in 2024 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Three past members have competed in the Summer Olympics for Team USA to include Peter Lash (’81) - 1984 & 1988 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles and Korea; LTC (R) Craig Gilbert (’78) - 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles and Mike Thornberry (’93) - 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. Many other players have competed for the USA National Team.^[1]

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Location of West Point Team Handball

Accomplishments

Nationals:
- Men's Elite:
  - Bronze : 2014^[2]
  - Silver : 2008
- Men's Open / Division I:
  - Bronze : 1998
  - Gold : 2006^[3]
  - Silver : 2014^[2]
- Men's Division II:
  - Bronze : 2017^[4]
College Nationals:
- Men:
  - Gold : 1976, 1979–1982, 1985–1987, 1989–1993, 1995–2001, 2003, 2007–2019, 2022, 2023 , 2024
  - Silver : 2002–2006, 2010–2013, 2015–2016
- Bronze : 2024
- Women:
  - Gold : 1980, 1990–1991, 1996, 1999–2003, 2005–2007, 2012–2017, 2019, 2022, 2023, 2024
  - Silver : 2009–2011, 2022
  - Bronze : 2000, 2002, 2006 2010, 2015–2017, 2024
Northeast Team Handball League
- Men's Division I:
  - Silver : 2012/2013, 2013/14, 2015/16, 2016/17, 2022, 2023
  - Bronze : 2009/2010, 2011/12, 2014/15
- Women's Division:
  - Gold : 2014/2015
Carolina Blue Cup (men) : 6
- Gold : 1991, 1992, 1998, 2009, 2010, 2024
- Silver : 1993, 1997, 2004, 2008, 2016
- Bronze : 1994, 2000, 2007, 2011, 2023

Head coaches

Season	Coach	Seasons	College Nationals Titles	%
1975–1978	CPT James J. Thome, Sr.	3/6	1/4	33/75
1978–1979	LTC Gert Evert	1	1	100
1979–1981	CPT Terry Freeman	2/3	2/3	100/100
1981–1983	MAJ Bob Asiello	2	1	50
1983–1985	MAJ Jim Johnston	2	1	50
1985–1986	MAJ Terry Freeman (2)	1/3	1/3	100/100
1986–1988	MAJ Howard Barton	2	1	50
1988–1991	LTC James J. Thome, Sr. (2)	3/6	3/4	100/75
1991–1992	MAJ John Turner	1	1	100
1992–1993	MAJ Bill Nanry	1	1	100
1993–1994	MAJ Rollie Jacobs	1	0	0
1994–1996	MAJ Bill Rapp	2	1	50
1996–1997	MAJ Greg Wise	1	1	100
1997–1998	MAJ Mike Endres	1	1	100
1998–2000	CPT Jonathan Negin	2	2	100
2000–2002	MAJ Kevin Volk	2	1	50
2002–2004	MAJ Darren Smith	2	1	50
2004–2005	MAJ Kyle Simpson	1	0	0
2005–2008	CPT Chris Springer	3	2	67
2008–2009	MAJ Travis Habhab	1	1	100
2009–2010	MAJ Adam Hodges	1	1	100
2010–2012	MAJ Michael Tilton	2	2	100
2012–2014	MAJ Harry Terzic	2	2	100
2014–2016	CPT Reginald Shelton	2	2	100
2016–2018	CPT Jonathan Harmeling	2	2	100
2018–2021	SFC Eric Lawson	3	1^{[* 1]}	100
2021-2024	MAJ Craig Champlin	3	3	100

Was a captain and coach of the West Point Team Handball

Was a player and coach of the West Point Team Handball

^ 2020 and 2021 edition were cancelled due to Covid. Therefor Eric Lawson won 100% of the possible College Nationals.

Source: ^[5]

Captains

Season	Captain	College Nationals
1975–76	Marty Wisda	1st Place: 1976
1978-77	Mike Harwood	Attended: 1977
1977–78	Joe James	Attended: 1978
1978–79	Mike Clark	1st Place: 1979
1979–80	Mark House	1st Place: 1980
1980–81	Jim Kons	1st Place: 1981
1981–82	Mark Condry	1st Place: 1982
1982–83	Brad Elrod
1983–84	Bill Rapp
1984–85	Rick Oleksyk	1st Place: 1985
1985–86	Mike Endres	1st Place: 1986
1986–87	Ross Brown	1st Place: 1987
1987–88	Joe Chatfield	1st Place: 1988
1988–89	Chip Anderson	1st Place: 1989
1989–90	Kevin Hucthinson	1st Place: 1990
1990–91	Rhett Nichol	1st Place: 1991
1991–92	H. Huthison	1st Place: 1992
1992–93	JT Thome	1st Place: 1993
1993–94	R. Heine
1994–95		1st Place: 1995
1995–96		1st Place: 1996
1996–97	David Borden	1st Place: 1997
1997–98	Jonathan Hartley	1st Place: 1998
1998–99	J. Kohowski	1st Place: 1999
1999-00	Frank Wendt	1st Place: 2000
2000–01	Mike Gilmartin	1st Place: 2001
2001–02	Adam Clements	2nd Place: 2002
2002–03	Kurtis Bennett	1st Place: 2003
2003–04	Tim Lawrence	2nd Place: 2004
2004–05		2nd Place: 2005
2005–06	Alex Deep	2nd Place: 2006
2006–07	Alex Mullin	1st Place: 2007
2007–08	Jonathan Harmeling	1st Place: 2008
2008–09	Brian Walsh	1st Place: 2009
2009–10	Jason Borchik & Pat Saxby	1st Place: 2010
2010–11	Adam Moore, Marc Beaudoin, & Rickey Royal	1st Place: 2011
2011–12	Mark Conard & Greg Ayers	1st Place: 2012
2012–13	Craig Champlin & Ian Emory	1st Place: 2013
2013–14	Andrew College and Sean Boyle	1st Place: 2014
2014–15		1st Place: 2015
2015–16		1st Place: 2016
2016–17		1st Place: 2017
2017–18	Nick Scheblar	1st Place: 2018
2018–19	Nick Webster	1st Place: 2019
2019–20	Rob Purdy	No tournament due to COVID-19
2020–21	Ryan Thistlewood and Nathan Chilian	No tournament due to COVID-19
2021–22	Chris Frazier and Will Considine	1st Place: 2022
2022–23	Colin Gray and Spencer Knudsen	1st Place: 2023
2023–24	Mark Miller and Ethan Flege	1st Place: 2023

Source: ^[6]

Rankings

2017–18

		Month 1	Month 2	Month 3	Month 4	Month 5	Month 6 Final
Black	Men's	7	7	7	11	10	7
Black	College	*	1 (9)	*	1 (8)	1 (7)	1 (5)
Gold	Men's	20	NR	NR	NR	NR	24
Gold	College	*	NR	*	5т	NR	3

Non of the women's team received votes for the women's poll.

2018–19

		Month 1	Month 2	Month 3
Black	Men's	6	6	7
	College	1 (7)	1 (7)	1 (6)
	Women's	NV	NR	NR
Gold	Men's	17	22 т	NR
Gold	College	NV	NV	NV

* No Ranking was released.

**Legend**
		Improvement in ranking
		Drop in ranking
		Not ranked previous week
		No change in ranking from previous week
NR		Received votes but were not ranked in Top 25 of men's poll or Top 5 College poll
т		Tied with team above or below also with this symbol

Current Roster

Number	Name	Year	Position
6	Caden Uptgraft	Junior	Center back
19	Reid Wesley	Junior	Pivot
8	Aidan Halloran	Senior	Right wing
9	Gary Phillips	Senior	Right back
1	Bedford Fagan	Senior	Left back
12	Ian Cavana	Senior	Left wing
28	Liam Gilfillan	Junior	Goalie
3	Jamison Uptgraft	Junior	Left wing
20	Jack Kendrick	Junior	Pivot
13	Patrick Rancan	Senior	Right wing
23	Ku'ili Bandmann	Junior	Center back

References

^ mterzic (26 September 2013). "West Point Men's Team Handball". West Point Men's Team Handball. Retrieved 12 October 2017.
^ ^a ^b Godwin, Maurice. "2014 USA Team Handball National Championships" (PDF). USA Team Handball (PDF; 207 KB). Retrieved 26 March 2018.
^ Sewell, Robert A. (2 May 2006). "Nat2006". teamhandballnews.com (XLS; 82 KB). Archived from the original on 26 October 2007. Retrieved 26 March 2018.
^ "USATH Open Nationals 2017". USA Team Handball. Retrieved 26 March 2018.
^ "Head Coaches". West Point Men's Team Handball. 25 September 2013. Archived from the original on 4 April 2019. Retrieved 4 April 2019.
^ "Team Captains". West Point Men's Team Handball. 25 September 2013. Archived from the original on 4 April 2019. Retrieved 4 April 2019.

External links

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[1] terzic (26 September 2013). "West Point Men's Team Handball". West Point Men's Team Handball. Retrieved 12 October 2017.

[n2014-2] Godwin, Maurice. "2014 USA Team Handball National Championships" (PDF). USA Team Handball (PDF; 207 KB). Retrieved 26 March 2018.

[3] Sewell, Robert A. (2 May 2006). "Nat2006". teamhandballnews.com (XLS; 82 KB). Archived from the original on 26 October 2007. Retrieved 26 March 2018.

[4] "USATH Open Nationals 2017". USA Team Handball. Retrieved 26 March 2018.

[6] "Head Coaches". West Point Men's Team Handball. 25 September 2013. Archived from the original on 4 April 2019. Retrieved 4 April 2019.

[7] "Team Captains". West Point Men's Team Handball. 25 September 2013. Archived from the original on 4 April 2019. Retrieved 4 April 2019.

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