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India’s best under-16 (youth-level) boys and girls basketball players will be in national training camps from next week, in preparation for their respective FIBA Asia Basketball Championships.
The Basketball Federation of India (BFI) has listed 16 probables for the boys’ squad and 25 for the girls’ team to report to their respective camps from all across the nation. The boys’ camp will be held at the SAI courts in NSWC, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, while the girls’ camp will be held at STC Aurangabad in Maharashtra. Both camps are scheduled from August 19 – September 15 this year.
India’s U16 boys are scheduled to participate in the 3rd FIBA Asia U16 Championship in Tehran (Iran) from September 25 – October 4.
Upon completion of their training camp in Gandhinagar, the final 12-man roster will travel to Dongguan (China) for an exposure trip against various Chinese clubs, before heading to Iran. India qualified for the championship in Tehran after winning the SABA Qualifiers against South Asian rivals in Dhaka, Bangladesh, a month ago.
The 3rd FIBA Asia U16 Championship for Women is set to be held in Colombo, Sri Lanka, from November 17-24, 2011. India qualified for this championship after finishing fifth at the previous edition of the U16 Women’s ABC in Jinan (2011), and thus remaining in the competition’s Level I.
India’s foreign head coaches Scott Flemming & Francisco Garcia will be overlooking the boys’ and girls’ squads respectively, while Tritesh Guha (Boys) and TD Biju (Girls) have also been named coaches for the teams.
India’s Boys U16 Probables
- Mahipal Singh (Rajasthan)- Akhilesh Kumar (Rajasthan)- Yogesh Kaneriya (Rajasthan)- Prabhnoor Singh (Punjab)- Rahul Memla (Punjab)- Jaipal Singh (Punjab)- Bitto (Delhi)- Ashish Briggs (Madhya Pradesh)- Vishal Kumar Gupta (Delhi)- Sunil (Delhi)- M. David Boon (Andhra Pradesh)- Mithun Das (Chhattisgarh)- Dhimant Sahi (Tamil Nadu)- Ashutosh Kumar Singh (Uttar Pradesh)- Erash Hooda (Karnataka)- Arjun Pandit (Delhi)
International Coach: Scott FlemmingCoach: Tritesh GuhaAssistant Coach: RS GaurStrength and Conditioning Coach Zak Penwell
India’s Girls U16 Probables
- Vandana Arya (Chhattisgarh)- Riya Verma (Chhattisgarh)- P. Divya (Chhattisgarh)- Divyangna Singh (Delhi)- Tannu Hooda (Haryana)- Namrata Hooda (Haryana)- Bhandanya HM (Karnataka)- Lopamudra Thimmayam K (Karnataka)- Sandhya CR (Karnataka)- India Nelson (Kerala)- Mayukha KT (Kerala)- Nimmy Mathew (Kerala)- Anitha PV (Kerala)- Sakshi Pandey (Madhya Pradesh)- Shreya Salian (Maharashtra)- Sakshi Arora (Maharashtra)- Shreya Joshi (Maharashtra)- Mugda Amroolkar (Maharashtra)- Gangandeep Kaur (Punjab)- V Srividhya (Tamil Nadu)- MG Shinu (Tamil Nadu)- K Prithi (Tamil Nadu)- Urvashi Malik (Odhisa)- Pallavi Kumari (West Bengal)- Vimmy Varkey (Kerala)
International Coach: Francisco GarciaCoach: TD BijuAssistant Coach: Abay ChawanStrength and Conditioning Coach: Zak Penwell
