Darrick Heath (born October 12, 1964) is an American former handball player.[1] He competed in the men's tournament at the 1996 Summer Olympics.[2] After his playing career, Heath became a coach, and coached the national team.[3]

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Darrick Heath
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Born (1964-10-12) October 12, 1964 (age 60)
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Heath was born in 1964 and attended Finger Lakes Community College.[1] He then went to C. W. Post College where he played basketball.[1][4]

After playing handball for a local club in Long Island, he eventually made his way onto the US National Team.[1] In 1988, 1989 and 1993 he was part of the team that won national titles in handball.[1] For the next two years, Heath moved to Europe, playing professionally in Budapest, Hungary and Graz, Austria.[1][5] In 1993, Heath was also named the U.S. Team Handball Male Athlete of the Year.[6]

At the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Heath was part of the American team that finished in ninth place in the men's tournament.[7][8] However, Heath would later suffer a spinal injury in a car crash, which ended his playing career.[9]

After playing for the US National Team until 2003, Heath became a handball coach,[1][10] and coached the national team during the 2011/12 season.[1] He helped the US team reach the 2011 Pan American Games, the first time that the US team had qualified for the games since 2003.[11] He was also a lecturer at Emory University in Atlanta for ten years from 2002 to 2012,[1] and featured in a university paper.[12]

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