DEVELOPMENT WOMEN’S NATIONAL TEAM ANNOUNCES TOURNAMENT ROSTER

Canada Basketball – FINAL ROSTER SELECTED TO REPRESENT CANADA IN JAPAN AND TAIWAN

TORONTO, ON (August 4, 2017) – Canada Basketball’s Women’s High Performance Program is pleased to announce the final roster for the Development Women’s National Team set to compete at the U24 Women Basketball League Four Nations 2017 and Taipei 2017 29^th Summer Universiade this month.

“We are pleased to confirm the twelve players who will represent Canada and gain international mileage against a variety of styles and levels of development national teams,” said Denise Dignard, Director, Women’s High Performance. “We look forward to seeing their progress as individuals and as a team as we grow our athlete pool and provide our Canadian coaches with valuable international experience.”

Fabian McKenzie takes the helm in his sixth year as Head Coach and is joined by assistant coaches Chantal Vallée and Nate McKibbon.

The team is currently training at Ryerson University (Kerr Hall) until August 8^th and will first travel to Tokyo, Japan on August 9 to compete at the inaugural U24 Women Basketball League Four Nations 2017 where they will face off against Japan, USA and Australia. Canada tips-off tournament play on August 12 against host Japan at 3:30 AM ET.

Following this tournament, the team will then travel to Taipei City, Taiwan to compete at the Taipei 2017 29^thSummer Universiade. Canada tips-off tournament play on August 21 against Portugal at 3 AM ET.

Canada is currently ranked 6^th in the FIBA Women’s World Rankings.

Media are invited to post-practice scrums on the following date. Please RSVP to mwalker@basketball.ca.

MEDIA AVAILABILITY

Monday August 7
6:45 p.m. Gym Opens
7:00 p.m. Availability

*All times are EST and subject to change

The full staff list, roster and schedule can be found below. Follow Canada Basketball on Twitter for game streaming details and live game coverage.
 

2017 DWNT ROSTER