MUMBAI: The National Basketball Association (NBA) Friday announced that the second edition of the ‘The NBA Academy India Women’s Program’ will take place from 22-25 January 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 United States.
The first edition of the event in India was held from 27-29 May last year. Sanjana Ramesh, the co-MVP of the camp, recently committed to play Division-1 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 after Chhatisgarh hoopster Kavita Akula enrolled at the Grand Canyon university in 2017.
