Canada Basketball invites 14 athletes to women’s U18 training camp

A gaggle of 14 athletes have been invited to attend coaching camp for Canada’s under-18 ladies’s nationwide crew in preparation of the FIBA U18 Ladies’s Americas Championship 2022, Canada Basketball introduced Monday.

The group of 14 was chosen from a Canada Basketball ladies’s excessive efficiency nationwide crew age-group evaluation camp again in March, the group said.

The coaching camp will run from Might 30-June 8 at Humber School in Toronto.

“As we put together for this summer season’s FIBA U17 Ladies’s World Cup 2022 and FIBA U18 Ladies’s Americas Championship 2022, we’re wanting ahead to getting our athletes and coaches safely again collectively to proceed coaching and rising collectively as a program,” said Denise Dignard, Canada Basketball’s normal supervisor and government vice-president for girls’s excessive efficiency in a press release earlier than the evaluation camp.

“Our ladies’s excessive efficiency nationwide crew age-group evaluation camps have been a important long-term growth alternative for our program up to now and is an opportunity for our recognized athletes to not solely display their progress, but in addition work with our world class employees to determine individualized plans to assist of their growth as gamers.”

The FIBA U18 Ladies’s Americas Championship 2022 is being held June 13-19 at Obras Sanitarias Stadium in Buenos Aires, Argentina the place Canada will probably be competing in Group A together with Mexico, Brazil and the hosts Argentina.

The highest 4 groups from the match will qualify for the FIBA U19 Ladies’s Basketball World Cup 2023 in Madrid, Spain.

The Canadian squad is being coached by Steve Bauer alongside assistants Tamara Tatham, Marlo Davis and apprentice coach/crew supervisor Isabel Ormond.

In accordance with FIBA, Canada is ranked No. 8 within the ladies’s age-group world rankings.

The next is the total listing of all 14 athletes who had been invited to coaching camp:

• Mary-Anna Asare, Pickering, Ont, guard.
• Alieghya Batholomew, Toronto, Ont., guard.
• Jasmine Bascoe, Milton, Ont., guard.
• Shantavia Dawkins, Brampton, Ont., guard.
• Fatima Diakhate, Coral Springs, Fla., centre.
• Marah Dykstra, Vancouver, forwards.
• Skylar Forbes, Markham, Ont., ahead.
• Christine Geraldo, Montreal guard. 
• Kali Grootenboer, Thunder Bay, Ont., centre.
• Lemyah Hylton, Mississauga, Ont., guard.
• Emma Koabel, Port Colborne, Ont., guard.
• Alisha Murray, Toronto, guard.
• Cheyenne Rowe, Ajax, Ont., ahead.
• T’yana Todd, Toronto, Ont., guard.