Two Decades Later, Gary ‘Hangtime’ Hines Is Still Chasing His Olympic Handball Dream
The 39-year-old Hines and the U.S. team are gunning for an Olympic berth at this month’s Pan American Games.
Athlete Bio#
Height
5'11
Age
31
Hometown
Naples, FL
Education
Barron Collier High School Harvard University
Personal
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)...Is starting 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 (34 countries and counting), reading (favorite book is The Prophet), learning about different cultures and videography.Career Highlights
- 2021: Creating the first U.S./Dutch beach handball team to compete in the European Beach Handball tour (Netherlands)
- 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)
