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Currently pursuing MBA at the University of Florida...Studied Behavioral Economics at Harvard, where she played Division I basketball...Moved to San Diego after graduation and began training with the U.S. National Beach Handball Team...Currently works as a freelance content creator (www.cmnarrative.com) and moved to the Netherlands to play professional indoor handball for KRAS/Volendam, a Dutch team in the first division (Eredivisie)...Started the first ever U.S./Dutch beach handball team to compete in the European Beach Handball tour for summer 2021...Hobbies include playing all kinds of sports (including basketball, surfing, beach volleyball, and spikeball), traveling (47 countries and counting), reading (favorite book is The Prophet), learning about different cultures and videography.

Career Highlights

2024: IHF Beach Handball World Championship (Pingtan, China) - 138 points on 70% shooting percentage
2024: NACHC Beach Handball Championship (San Juan, Puerto Rico) - Gold Medalist
2023: IHF Beach Handball Global Tour Bronze Medalist (Marica, Brazil) - Top Scorer (81 points on 77% shooting percentage)
2023: EBT Finals - 2nd top scorer and MVP nominee
2023: Damp EBT Tournament MVP
2022: IHF World Championship (Greece) - Awarded Top Scorer (164 pts with 81% shooting percentage), All-Star team selection
2022: World Games (Birmingham, Alabama) - Awarded Best Pivot and All-Star Team Selection
2022: Names European Handball Federation's "Face of Beach Handball", debuted while hosting the EHF Champions Cup (Portugal)
2022: European Beach Tour Tournaments with KRAS Volendam - Camelot (Netherlands), EBT Finals (Italy), Karacho Cup (Germnay, 3rd place), Ismaning Cup (Germany, 3rd place), Visp (Switzerland, 1st place); Finished 7th overall in European Beach Tour rankings
2021: Founder and Captain of the first Dual nation beach handball team, KRAS Volendam. Volendam created to compete in the European Beach Handball tour and to serve as a national team development and residency program for Team USA and Team Netherlands athletes; Tournaments include Arena 1000 Nazare (Portugal), Budapest (Hungary, 5th place), Salgotarian (Hungary), Stare Jablonki (Poland, 2nd place), Karacho Cup (Germany, 3rd place)
2020-2021: Played professional indoor handball for KRAS Volendam in first division - Eredivisie League (Netherlands)
2019: MVP of NORCA World Championship Qualifying Tournament - 1st, U.S. top scorer (Trinidad & Tobago)
2019: ANOC World Beach Games - 10th, U.S. top scorer (Doha, Qatar)
2019: Karacho Beach Cup - 5th, U.S. top scorer (Kelkeim, Germany)
2019: Training Camp with Greek and French National Teams (Paros, Greece)

Maria Vallone

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