Sukhvir has been involved in the sport of basketball as a player and a coach for the past 30 years. Coach Singh played his high school basketball with the Kelvin Clippers, where he started for the Varsity team in grade 10. In his grade 12 year, coach Singh was selected as a 1st team Graduating All-Star, named to the All-Manitoba 1st team and was awarded the ‘AAAA’ Player of the Year honours. Sukhvir was ranked #1 in the annual Winnipeg Sun coaches' poll, received the high school team MVP award and was named Kelvin High School’s graduating Male Athlete of the Year.

Sukhvir went on to play for 5 years at the University of Winnipeg. He was selected as a 1st team Can-West All-Star twice and led the country in assists and assist to turnover ratio. In his 4th and 5th seasons, Sukhvir was recognized by the University of Winnipeg as the Male Athlete of the Year.

Sukhvir began his coaching career as an Assistant Coach with the Red River Rebels College program. After two seasons, he was promoted to the Head Coaching position. He led the Rebels to 7 straight MCAC Championships, all while picking up 3 MCAC Coach of the Year awards and being named the Basketball Manitoba Open Category Coach of the Year.

Sukhvir was an assistant coach with the provincial team program from 2011 to 2013, where he helped lead the program to two consecutive National Silver Medals, the second being at the Canada Games.

Coach Singh was an assistant coach with the University of Manitoba from 2015-2017, where he helped guide the program to back-to-back CanWest Final 4 appearances, all culminating with a CanWest Silver medal and a trip to the National USports Elite 8 tournament.

In 2015, Sukhvir Singh Co-Founded the Attack Basketball program, where he currently acts as the Head Coach and Program Director. Attack Basketball is a youth basketball program that provides a safe and inclusive environment for boys and girls ages 5-17 to learn the game of basketball. Just recently, the program became the first youth basketball program to be certified by Canada Basketball's national verification program. Attack Basketball has grown over the past few years to become the largest youth basketball club in the province. 

Sukhvir Singh has a wealth of knowledge and experience in basketball and views it as a responsibility to share that knowledge to help grow the beautiful game of basketball. Coach Singh has the ability to help athletes reach their goals and their potential, all while mentoring them to be better people and positive influences in society.



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