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Los Angeles THC

Handballclub from Los Angeles

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ63456887
Source-derived summary

Los Angeles Handball Club is a handball club from Los Angeles.

History

The club was founded in 2001.

In September 2025, American player and businessman Lewis Howes purchased the club.

LAHC participated at the 2019 IHF North American and Caribbean Super Globe Qualifier.

LAHC has its home court and training at the indoor practice grounds of MLS side Los Angeles Galaxy in Torrance, California.

LAHC won the 2020 Valley of the Sun team handball tournament in Tempe, Arizona immediately before the COVID-19 pandemic.

In November 2025 they hired former world champion Morten Olsen as their head coach. At the same time they signed former Austrian national team player Maximilian Hermann and Swedish former national team player Dalibor Doder.

In 2026 they won the American Championship.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Los Angeles THC” as handballclub from Los Angeles. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2001, 2025, 2019, 2020—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2001. The account is most persuasive where Angeles and Handballclub can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as handballclub from Los Angeles. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q63456887. None of the 2 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2001, 2025, 2019 and 2020.

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This entry incorporates text from Los Angeles THC” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.