Gary and Ralph have been gathering ideas from our coaches and others to learn how to best introduce handball at our colleges and universities. To Jim, this means all of handball, and he's putting his money where his mouth is. He is determined to expand and improve our men's pro tour, create a women's pro tour and expand one-wall handball. Along with these efforts we also realize we need to promote ourselves more actively if we are to secure new players, sponsors and advertisers. We will be looking at our merchandising efforts, our magazine image, our logo, our whole package to see what can be done to present ourselves better and to sell handball.
USHA members are fortunate right now.
You have one of the most active boards in years. This board is interested in what you want and is interested in peering into the future and doing what is necessary to ensure a healthy and growing fraternity of handball. I sit at my desk, pad and pen on my left side. In my right hand, my fingers caress a small blue sphere, a rubber ball, the characteristics of which define and sometimes divide our sport. The casual observer would no doubt laugh at our obsession with four or five grams of weight, two inches of rebound difference, the grab off floors and walls.