This is the letter that the CHA Board Of Directors sent to Mike Steele (of the WPH) and the USHA Board Of Directors.  Our members have been following this conflict and are concerned about the outcome as it affects us personally as well as the future of handball.  To read the letter, please login, then click on this link.

Your web site for handball in Colorado now supports Web Slices - a feature of IE 8.  If you have IE 8, look for the slices that can make your handball life on the web a little quicker, such as the Current News and  Users Online sections on this page, and the Event Calendar list on the Upcoming Events page.

Don Stewart reminds us that it's time to get the dust off your sun-block, folding chairs, coolers, and ball caps.  Then grab the rest of your gear and beat feet to the nearest 3-wall courts for one of the best ways to enjoy our favorite sport. 

We have a new "member-maintained" page especially for 3-wall where registered Colorado Handball members can add or update information about the places they play.   You must login first to be able to add or update any record, but the fact that you can maintain it easily yourself should help keep it up-to-date with the best information available.  Go there now and check it out!

Basic information about court locations can be found here for

• Boulder
• Englewood (Denver metro)
• Fort Collins - there are only 2 courts, but they are brand new, and look great!
  "We have played under the lights.  It’s great.  The ceiling has a very true, almost silent bounce.  The courts are always free, and the lights are disabled automatically at 10:00pm." - Dennis Madden

By the way, if this work out, we will probably use the same kind of "member-maintained" page for the shuttle schedule.  Let us know what you think.

To those of you who played, volunteered to ref, supported a sibling, spouse or friend, or just came by for some good food, liquid refreshment or to watch some great handball, THANKS FOR MAKING THE 2009 CHA STATE SINGLES the BEST IN RECENT MEMORY.

Those in attendance on Sunday got to watch some of the best finals we've seen in a long time. Congratulations to all!!!

We look forward to seeing you all at next year's events at the DAC, and at the 2009 3-Wall Tournament in August.

COMPLETE Results are available here and will be in the upcoming CHA newsletter. We just wanted to say thanks to all who made it a great success!

Bear Meiring, Stan Dunlavy and Stan Wolpoff
Tournament Directors

Monty Sims sent the entry form, and it is now also available from our event calendar.  This is the 20th year for this event, and it promises to be bigger and better than ever!

New events are stil being added to the upcoming event calendar almost every week now, and we continue to be one of the primary sources of tournament information in the Rocky Mountain Region.  Recently we entry forms for several events, and we continue to encourage tournament directors and planning committees to send details of what they have on their drawing boards.  The price is right (it is free, after all), so send the details and a doc / pdf / image of your entry form when you get one to EventNews@ColoradoHandball.com

NOW WITH PHOTOS...  check out the updated summary.  Here is where you will find the write-up with the tournament results as well as some contributions from a couple of the participants - Alex Rodas (from his blog) and Rick Wheelock who submitted an open letter / commentary .

Jay Stenger sent us the results from this recent tournament, which we are happy to post here for players in our neighbor state of Wyoming. 

President Ron has some very nice words to say about Robo's tourney.  read more ... - (published here on Sunday, August 10, 2008)

... you can view a clickable map of all the places where handball is played in Colorado?  You can use the map to zoom in on a location, and the green arrows point to the club locations.  Click on one of the arrows to see the club or location name, then you can find that club or location in the Clubs menu to get more details about the location.   To see the map, Click on the "Clubs" menu item, or use this link:

http://coloradohandball.com/main/Clubs/tabid/66/Default.aspx