Giles, Filewich, Ibrahim & Hynes to Attend Canada Basketball National Age-Group Assessment Camp Dec 16-20 in Toronto

Kyanna Giles

Jasmine Ibrahim

Keylyn Filewich

Michele Hynes

Canada Basketball has announced a national age-group assessment camp that will be held at Humber College, North Campus from December 16 - 20, 2013 for a group of invited female athletes identified through the national identification process. Manitoba athletes and coaches who have been invited and identified through the Manitoba Provincial Team Program include Kyanna Giles, Jasmine Ibrahim and Keylyn Filewich.  Joining the 3 athletes will be Bison Women's Coach Michele Hynes who is getting more and more involved as a coach at the national level.  Thirty-nine young female athletes from across the country have been invited to take part in the camp, which includes on and off-court sessions.

This assessment camp, combined with previous and upcoming identification work, will contribute to the assessment of the overall athlete pool and in determining those athletes to be chosen for each of the U17 and U18 women's summer national team program’s tryouts by invitation. Both U17 and U18 national teams will be competing in FIBA sanctioned championship tournaments this coming summer.

The coaches who will provide on-court leadership at the camp will include junior (U18) women’s national team head coach Rich Chambers, cadette (U16) women’s national team head coach Carly Clarke, cadette women’s national team assistant coaches Andre Desjardins and Taffe Charles, and cadette women’s national team performance analyst Jodi Gram. Additional women’s national team program coaches who will be working with the athletes are Michele Belanger, Agnes Borg, Scott Edwards, Scott Reeves, Dani Sinclair and Jeff Speedy. Senior women’s national team head coach Lisa Thomaidis and development women’s national team head coach Fabian McKenzie will also be present at the camp for technical guidance and leadership. In addition, senior performance analyst Dipesh Mistry and women’s national team statistics consultant, Hasan Alanam, will be overseeing the training and professional development of performance analysts Jodi Gram, Michele Hynes and Megan Wiggins.

“We are excited to hold this camp to provide athletes with exposure to our Canadian Style of Play and give them an opportunity to apply this knowledge towards the goal of becoming a world-class athlete in international basketball,” said Denise Dignard, Director of Women’s High Performance. “After holding our women’s high performance technical summit last week, we are looking forward to having some of our pool of world-class national coaches working with these young athletes to integrate the Canadian Style of Play. This will help achieve full harmonization for the long-term development of podium athletes for the senior national team program.”

Dignard went on to say, “Our performance analysts are a very important addition to our national team staff as they will contribute much more in-depth information to accelerate the learning of our athletes.”

The junior (U18) women’s national team will compete at the FIBA Americas U18 Championship for Women in Colorado Springs, CO from August 6 – 10, 2014. The tournament features teams representing eight countries from North, South and Central America and the Caribbean, with players born in 1996 or later.

The 2013 cadette women’s national team will attend the FIBA U17 World Championships for women, which will be held in Slovakia from June 28 – July 6, 2014. The team qualified after finishing second at the FIBA Americas U16 Championship in Cancun, Mexico this past summer.

WOMEN’S NATIONAL AGE-GROUP CAMP INVITEES

WOMEN’S NATIONAL AGE-GROUP CAMP INVITEES

Name	Year	Home Town
Aislinn Konig	1998	Vancouver BC
Bobbi-Jo Colburn	1998	Cranbrook BC
Bridget Atkison	1996	Welland ON
Bridget Carleton	1997	Chatham ON
Chelayne Bailey	1997	Ajax ON
Cheyenne Creighton	1996	Pickering ON
Chiso Ufondu	1998	Calgary AB
Christina Buttenham	1996	Hamilton ON
Daneesha Provo	1996	Dartmouth NS
Danielle Garven	1997	Scarborough ON
Eternati Willock	1997	Scarborough ON
Hailey Brown	1999	Hamilton ON
Halle Bovell	1998	Hamilton ON
Jaelyne Kirkpatrick	1997	Oakville ON
Jasmine Ibrahim	1996	Winnipeg MB
Jessica Hanson	1997	Vancouver BC
Julia Chandler	1997	Toronto ON
Kacie Bosch	1996	Lethbridge AB
Kendra Van Leeuwen	1997	Brantford ON
Keylyn Filewich	1998	Winnipeg MB
Kyanna Giles	1998	Winnipeg MB
Lauren Yearwood	1997	Victoria BC
Lorraine Enabuele	1996	Ajax ON
Macaela Crone	1999	Moosejaw SK
Mael Gilles	1997	Montreal QC
Marcie Schlick	1998	Prince George BC
Maurane Corbin	1997	St. Bruno QC
Michaela Nieuwenhuizen	1997	Strathroy ON
Mikaela Brewer	1998	Barrie ON
Myriam Leclerc	1998	St-Roch-de Richelieu QC
Nadege Pluvoise	1996	Montreal QC
Nancy Kessler	1996	St Catherine’s ON
Nicole Vander Helm	1997	Surrey BC
Oksana Gouchie-Provencher	1998	Markham ON
Raphaelle Roy-Ash	1996	Sherbrooke QC
Shantelle Valentine	1996	Brampton ON
Shay Colley	1996	Brampton ON
Tatiana Toledo	1998	Blainville QC
Tayla Jackson	1997	Surrey BC
Veronika Lavernge	1997	Gloucester ON

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For more information please contact:

Denise Dignard
Director, Women's High Performance
Canada Basketball
Tel 416-614-8037 ext 204
ddignard@basketball.ca

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