Beach handball draws line in Hermosa Beach sand
SHARE U.S. National Beach Handball team player Ebiye Udo-Udoma has helped establish Hermosa Beach as the sports home base. Photo by Pawel Jakubowski (@pawi pl)
U.S. National Beach Handball team player Ebiye Udo-Udoma has helped establish Hermosa Beach as the sports home base. Photo by Pawel Jakubowski (@pawi pl)
The first time Ebiye Udo-Udoma saw handball being played was during the 2008 Beijing Olympics. He was a highschool student at the time and didn’t know much about the sport but he knew he wanted to be a professional athlete.
Today, Udo-Udoma is one of the top players in the world of Beach Handball, a variation of indoor handball but played in the sand and with slightly different rules. He’s lived near Hermosa Beach since 2016, where both the women and men’s National Beach Handball teams are now based.