NBA to host second NBA Academy India women's program in India

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MUMBAI - The National Basketball Association (NBA) today announced that The NBA Academy India will host the second The NBA Academy India Women’s Program from January 22-25, 2019.  24 female prospects ages 17 and under from throughout India will participate in the camp.

1996 Olympic Gold Medalist and Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame member Jennifer Azzi and former college coach Blair Hardiek – the global technical directors for women’s programming across the league’s seven academies – will oversee this year’s camp.

The NBA Academies Women’s Program is a series of basketball development camps for top female prospects from outside the U.S.  The first camp in India was held in 2018 (May 27-29).  Sanjana Ramesh, the MVP of the 2018 Camp, recently committed to play Division I basketball at the Northern Arizona University, becoming just the second Indian-born female player ever to receive a basketball scholarship from a D-1 school.

List of Campers

First NameLast NameDOBHeightPosition
     
SunishkaKartik15/5/20045'3Point Guard
Payal 14/10/20055'3Guard
RajviDesai24/5/20025'4Guard
DikshaPareek16/6/20045'4Guard
GrishmaNiranjan1/9/20015'5Point Guard
Siya Deodhar28/4/20035'5Point Guard
SkrutiBhosale27/4/20025'5Guard
VaishnaviYadav10/10/20015'5Guard
Akshaya Philip16/2/20025'6Forward
GowdaBindushree23/12/20035'6Forward
Kushi Dongre14/5/20015'6Guard
RashiKhotani14/5/20035'7Guard
Sreekala Rani19/1/20015'7Guard
HaleemaJan8/11/20025'8Forward
KashviKhanelwal9/9/20025’8Forward
Sanjana NandaKumar28/12/20035’8Forward
HariniShivakumar5/7/20035’8Center
JijuSwampna21/11/20035’8Center
Ann MaryZacariah8/11/20035’9Center
Suzanne PrakashPinto11/2/20025’10Forward
AsmatTaunque14/7/20035’11Forward
KavyaSingla28/3/20046’0Center
HarsimranKaur6/5/20036’0Forward
SanjanaRamesh12/4/20016’0Forward

 

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