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Inner City Handball Association
What: Mayor's Cup Handball Tournament
When: July 12-13, 2008
Where: Early round matches at 4 sites:
West 5th St. Courts Coney Island for Brooklyn residents
West 96th St. Courts Central Park for Manhattan and Staten Island residents
Van Cortlandt Park for Bronx and out of state residents
Beach 105th Far Rockaway for Queens and Long Island residents
Where: Sunday, July 13 - CHAMPIONSHIPS
North Meadow - Central Park

The Mayor’s Cup Handball Championship is the largest small-ball, one-wall handball tournament in the world. Preliminary matches will be held in Coney Island, Central Park, Van Cortlandt Park and Far Rockaway, with the finals taking place at Central Park’s North Meadow. The Mayor’s Cup Handball Championship annually attracts the sport’s top athletes as past participants have included former National Champion Satish Jagnandan and local favorite John "Rookie" Wright.

Over $8,000 in total prize money will be awarded to the Pro and Pro-Am Champions. A portion of the weekend’s proceeds will go towards the Jim Jacobs Fund for Leukemia/Lymphoma Cancer Research in an effort to aid Cancer research and promote Cancer awareness.

Other notable handball players who have competed in competed in the Mayor's Cup include Tony Roberts (ICHA three-time National Doubles Champion); Joe Kaplan (Past Mayor's Cup Singles Champion); Yuber "Pee Wee" Castro (2005/2004 ICHA Mayor's Cup Handball Tournament Champion - Men's Pro Doubles); and John "Rookie" Wright (NYC six-time Big Blue Singles Champion), Theresa McCourt (Current USHA Singles Champion), and Tracy Davis (past ICHA Mayor's Cup Handball Tournament Champion - Women's Pro Singles & Women's Pro Doubles) among others.

The event is hosted by the Inner City Handball Association (ICHA) in cooperation with the United States Handball Association (USHA).

For additional information, please visit www.icha.org.

For information regarding last year's Mayor's Cup Handball Tournament, please visit our 2007 Mayor's Cup Handball Tournament page.


Last Updated On: Monday, May 12, 2008

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