Hiroshima Maple Reds is a women's handball team based in Hiroshima, Japan. It plays in the Japan Handball League. The club was founded in 1994 and belonged to IZUMI, a supermarket company in Hiroshima. The club was dissolved in 2001, then reinstated as HIROSHIMA MAPLE REDS by the Hiroshima Women's Sports Club (NPO).
From 1994 to 2006, the club has won the championships of Japan Handball League and others for 24 times in Japan. They won the 1st prize at the Second East Asian Handball Club Championship in 2005 in Suzhou, China. And the 3rd prize at the First in Seongnam, Korea and the 4th prize at the third in Kyoto, Japan. They won the 2nd prize at the 12th Hiroshima International Handball Games in 2007. results of games on "maplereds.net"
In April 2019 they were rebranded as the Izumi Maple Reds and did not play the 2020 season due to coronavirus concerns.
Team Current squad Squad for the 2019-20 season.
Goalkeepers 1 Taeko Takamori 12 Minami Itano 16 Yayoi Kanou 22 Momoko Nakamura Wings RW 17 Miki Mitsuhashi LW 3 Sae Ishikawa 9 Mai Kadodani 26 Kaede Yamane Line players 6 Mana Horikawa 14 Rie Inai 21 Maharu Kondo 25 Mayuka Nakanishi
Back players LB 7 Yuko Kawarabata 19 Arisa Kimura 20 Misa Tabuchi 27 Saya Muramatsu CB 5 Maaya Matsugi 8 Miki Mita 28 Natsuki Tomai
Former players O-Kyung Lim - Head Coach, CP Akane Aoto - Coach
Aimi Kiyama - CP Miho Tsuboi -CP Emi Sakaguchi -CP Jin-Soon Kim - CP Sung-Ok Oh - CP Emiko Egashira - GK Tone Hashizume Emi Sugimoto Miho Iwamoto Yukari Asai Lee Min-hee - GK
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