Canterbury Handball followed last year’s indoor handball success by winning both the men’s and women’s category of this year’s NZ Beach Handball Club Championship. Last year, Canterbury Quakes won both men’s and women’s Handball League Aotearoa and the men’s title of the 2024 NZ Club Championship. They started this year with Canterbury Pekapeka winning both men’s and women’s titles in beach handball.
Canterbury Pekapeka dominated the women’s championship winning all their games and the finals. The men’s tournament was a tighter affair. On the first day, Pekepeka men lost both their matches against Barad-dûr Beach Bros. Barad-dûr Beach Bros won all their matches on the first day. But they could not replicate it on the second day.
2025 Beach Handball Club championship Winners
2025 Beach Handball Club Men’s Championship - Canterbury Pekapeka
Ollly Donaldson (Charrots)
Top Scorer and Most Valuable Attacker
Cameron Ross (Charrots) and Jeremy Clarke (Charrots)
Most Valuable Defender
Jack Gallagher (Charrots) and Alex Brown (BBB)
Best Goalkeeper
2025 Beach Handball Club WOMen’s Championship - Canterbury Pekapeka
Jaclyn Parker (Pekapeka)
Most Valuable Attacker
Kianna Dawson (Parrots)
Top Scorer
Rowan Moloughney (Pekapeka) and Mae Bartlett (Pekapeka)
Most Valuable Defender
Julia Singhal (Pekapeka)
Best Goalkeeper
That concludes the New Zealand Beach Handball season. Good luck to the teams and players going over to the Australian Beach Club Championship starting 3rd of April 2025.
