Hiroshima Maple Reds is a women's

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team based in

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. 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

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. They won the 2nd prize at the 12th Hiroshima International Handball Games in 2007. In April 2019 they were rebranded as the Izumi Maple Reds and did not play the 2020 season due to

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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

References

{{reflist Women's handball clubs in Japan Handball clubs established in 2001 Maple Reds 2001 establishments in Japan