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Canada Basketball – U17 Team Will Compete In FIBA World Championships

 
TORONTO, ON (June 4, 2016) – Canada Basketball’s women’s high performance program is pleased to announce the 18 athletes who have been invited to the June 6th-8th U17 tryout by invitation. The group will compete for a chance to represent Canada on at the 2016 U17 FIBA World Championships.
 
“We’re excited to get this group together,” said Jodi Gram, head coach. “It will be a competitive camp, building on our 2015 gold medal performance and preparing to take on the world.”
 
Gram (Bill Crothers S.S.) takes the helm in her first year as head coach of the squad after working with the team for 5 years as an assistant and apprentice coach. She will be joined by assistants Dani Sinclair (University of Victoria), Albena Branzova-Dimitrova (UQAM) and performance analyst Michele Hynes (University of Manitoba).
 
Following the tryout, the group will participate in a 5-day training camp from June 9th-14th at the University of Toronto – Mississauga. The final 12-woman roster will head to Spain for an exhibition tournament en route to competing in the U17 FIBA World Championships in Zaragoza from June 22nd-July 3rd.
 
In 2015, the U16 national team won the U16 FIBA Americas Championship, capturing Canada’s first gold medal at a FIBA Americas tournament. Canada is currently ranked 4th worldwide in the FIBA youth girls rankings.
 
A full list of invited athletes and coaches can be found below. For media requests, please contact bwilliams@basketball.ca
 
2016 U17 NATIONAL TEAM INVITEES

NAME

POSITION

HEIGHT

HOMETOWN

Laeticia Amihere

Forward               

6’1”

Mississauga, ON

Niyah Becker

Forward               

5’9”       

Winnipeg, MB

Hailey Brown

Forward               

6’1”       

Hamilton, ON

Macaela Crone

Forward               

6’1”       

Moose Jaw, SK

Sarah Donovan

Forward  

5’9”

London, ON

Louise Forsyth    

Guard  

6’0”

Langley, BC

Raizel Guinto

Guard  

5’4”       

Winnipeg, MB

Hanna Hall

Guard  

5’2”

Hamilton, ON

Taya Hanson       

Guard  

5’7”

Kelowna, BC

Alyssa Jerome   

Forward               

6’1”       

Toronto, ON

Roxane Makolo 

Guard  

5’7”       

St-Hubert, QC

Kate Moran        

Center 

6’2”       

Waterloo, ON

Christina Morra 

Post

6’3”

Mississauga, ON

Shaina Pellington

Guard  

5’6”

Pickering, ON

Aiden Rainford  

Forward               

5’10”     

Toronto, ON

Kyla Shand          

Center 

6’2”

Saskatoon, SK

Sage Stobbart   

Center 

6’1”

Vancouver, BC

Keishana Washington

Guard  

5’6”

Pickering, ON

 
2016 COACHING & STAFF

NAME

HOMETOWN

AFFILIATION

ROLE

Jodi Gram

Markham, ON

Bill Crothers S.S.

Head Coach

Dani Sinclair

Victoria, BC

University of Victoria

Assistant Coach

Albena Branzova-Dimitrova

Montreal, QC

UQAM

Assistant Coach

Michele Hynes

Winnipeg, MB

University of Manitoba

Performance Analyst/Apprentice Coach

Michelle Bell

Brampton, ON

Ryerson University

Athletic Therapist

Megan Pinske

Coquitlam, ON

University of Saskatchewan

Team Manager/Apprentice Coach

Marcus Jansen

Toronto, ON

N/A

Physician

Nate McKibbon

Calgary, AB

Mount Royal University

Training camp Coach

Agnes Borg

Toronto, ON

Canada Basketball & Ontario Basketball

Head of Delegation

 
2016 SCHEDULE

DATE

ITEM

LOCATION

June 6th -8th , 2016

Tryouts

UofT – Mississauga

June 9th -14th, 2016

Training Camp

UofT – Mississauga

June 16th-19th

Exhibition Tournament

Spain

June 22nd, 2016

Vs. Nigeria

U17 World Championships
Zaragoza, Spain

June 23rd, 2016

Vs. Latvia

June 25th, 2016

Vs. Japan

June 28th, 2016

Round of 16

June 30th, 2016

Quarter Finals

July 1st, 2016

Semi-Finals

July 2nd, 2016

Classification Games

July 3rd, 2016

Finals

 

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For More Information & Media Requests, contact:
Bailey Williams, bwilliams@basketball.ca, 647.460.7976