Tournament information | |
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Sport | Handball |
Month played | April–May |
Established | 1959 |
Format | Round Robin, Knockout Stage |
Current champion | |
California Eagles |
The men's open national is a USA Team Handball tournament to determine the handball open national champion from the US. This is the second highest level of competition in the United States. Not qualified teams for the men's elite division are allowed to play in this division. Before the men's elite division was established, the national champion was crowned at the open division.
Year | Player | Team | Player | Team | Player | Team |
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Men's open division I | ||||||
MVP | MVG | Top Scorer | ||||
2001 | Richard Jacobs | USA Deaf | Ty Kovacs | USA Deaf | ||
2002 | Josh Ehman | Air Force Academy | Italo Zanzi | Atlanta | ||
2003 | Thomas Hedlund | Los Angeles THC | Thomas Sheppard | West Point Black | ||
2004 | Ivan Paz | Houston Firehawks | Dave Schmitt | Air Force Academy | ||
2011 | Bobby Dunn | New York Athletic Club | Danny Caparelli | New York Athletic Club | ||
2012 | Divine Jackson | New York Athletic Club | Danny Caparelli | New York Athletic Club | ||
2013 | Dennis Skarpeid Hermansen | Georgia HC | Thibault Salingue | New York City 2 THC | ||
2014 | Sean Cahill | Air Force Academy | Forrest Keller | West Point Gold | ||
2015 | Christopher Lindager | Houston Firehawks | Peter Acosta | Houston Firehawks | ||
2017 | Adrien Frier | DC Diplomats | Christoph Schmid | DC Diplomats | Adrien Frier | DC Diplomats |
2018 | Roger Silva | Dallas THC | Michael Gordon | Long Island Tigers | Roger Silva | Dallas THC |
2019 | Mateusz Piec | Carolina Blue | Eliud Fonseca | Houston Firehawks | Alriel Briggs / Matt Grohs | Long Island Tigers / Saskatchewan Junior Men |
2022 | Aaron Hamm | Carolina THC | Jack Moore | Carolina THC | Paul Meisner | Minnesota Team Handball |
2023 | Robin Zoeller | California Eagles | Omar Bentahar | San Francisco CalHeat II | Kyle Colwell | Saskatchewan Juniors |
2024 | Maxime Bouschet | California Eagles | Mohsen B. Renani | Los Angeles THC | Nikolai Keller | Los Angeles THC |
Men's open division II | ||||||
MVP | MVG | Top Scorer | ||||
2001 | Matt Johnson | University of North Carolina at Chapel Alumni | Chad Benesh | University of North Carolina at Chapel Alumni | ||
2002 | Remo Ziegler | MIT Lions | Brian Beachkofski | KA DOGs | ||
2003 | John Parker | Rock Handball | Brandon Strack | Rock Handball | ||
2004 | Scott Pace | West Point Gold | Bjoern Meinhardt | Kansas | ||
2017 | Daniel Suarez | Boston TH II | Kevin O’Connel | New York City 3 THC | Joseph Drennan | West Point Gold |
2022 | Alexis Renaud | HC Toronto | Julien Renaud | HC Toronto | Sean Starrett | Columbus Armada |
2023 | ||||||
2024 | Kyle Colwell | Prairie Selects | Matthew Styles | Prairie Selects | Arnau Rossell | San Diego THC |
Men's open I medal count
| Men's all-time medal count
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Rank | Club | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | West Point | 3 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
2 | Air Force Academy | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
3 | Carolina THC | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
4 | All-Indian Team Handball | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Badger THC | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
HC Toronto | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
Knight Air DOGs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
New York City THC | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
Prairie Selects | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
10 | Boston THC | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Fargo-Moorhead Wolves | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
Kansas | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
MIT Lions | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
Rock Handball | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
San Francisco CalHeat | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
USA Deaf | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
17 | ATH | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Buchanan Indian Storm | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
California Eagles | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
DC Diplomats | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Los Angeles THC | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Totals (21 entries) | 12 | 9 | 9 | 30 |
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