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The National Basketball Association (NBA) on Friday, 18th January 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 US. 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.
The first-ever NBA Academy Women’s camp was held in 2018 where Sanjana Ramesh from Bengaluru and Vaishnavi Yadav from Allahabad were announced as the Co-MVP for their exceptional skills exhibited during the three days of camp, as well in the championship game. Siya Deodhar from Nagpur was awarded the Most Improved Player. Grishma Niranjan from Bengaluru was awarded the Sharp Shooter award while Rajvi Desai from Madhya Pradesh was named as the best Defensive Player. Pushpa Senthil Kumar from Kerala received the Coaches award for exhibiting true sportsmanship and leadership skills on and off the court and Khushi Dongre from Maharashtra got the Best Teammate award.
In the three-day camp, the 18 top female prospects from across India received training from 1996 Olympic Gold Medalist and Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame member Jennifer Azzi, 2004 Olympic Gold Medalist and two-time WNBA Champion Ruth Riley, former WNBA player Ebony Hoffman and former college coach Blair Hardiek, along with former Indian women’s basketball team captain Divya Singh.
