80 U13s Headed to JIT

Canterbury Basketball will be sending eight teams (80 players) to the U13 JIT this weekend in Timaru. This is a first in two ways, firstly this is the first time we have sent the JIT out into the Country Associations and secondly we have never had eight teams in one age group. Normally the JIT is held in Christchurch but we simply do not have the required gym space to host the event with club basketball still very much in swing.

As a trial, to possibly a future format, we are sending both A Grade teams and Development teams to the JIT to play in separate sections. This is to allow Canterbury Country to select from the best Sth Cant, Mid Cant and Nth Cant players in one section for their Country team. Canterbury will also select our top 10 players from our two teams in this  A grade for nationals in Dunedin in October.

All the other players will be eligible for selection to our Canterbury Mainland teams to also play in October in Marlborough. Country will remain as Nth, Mid and Sth for this tournament.

The tournament features 5 teams in each grade Canterbury Red, Canterbury Black, Nth Canterbury, Mid Canterbury and Sth Canterbury. All teams will get four games over Saturday and Sunday.

Players selected for the U13 JIT are:

A Grade Boys

Canterbury Red: Coach Matt Hall, Enda Brennan, Flynn McGuiness, Okirano Fialele, Alfie May, William Obel-Hall, Jackson Rhodes, Trey TeAwa, Toby Tremewan, Guy Yarrell, Cambell Stewart

Canterbury Black: Coach Camilla Obel –Hall, Liam Golding, Ollie Hansen, Thomas Harrison, Ryan Morris, Lajos Varga, Elijah Broughton, Jonty Wood, Sam Jenkins, , Oscar Obel-HallA,h-Li Fenika

A Grade Girls

Canterbury Red: Coach David Harrison, Isabelle Orr, Hannah Manalaysay, Mia Harrison, Shontel Leiataua, Georgia Knowles, Martina Conner, Emily McAuley-Scott, Maia Williamson, Katie-Jo van den Bogaert, Esance Tipene-Wineti

Canterbury Black: Coach Tyla Harrison-Hunt, HollyGroeneweg, Courtney Godinet, Ella Gardiner, Marlia Faitaua-Nanai, Georgia Hollings, Mia Abercrombie, Holly-Jayne Willman, Amelia Wisker, TeRina Apakura, Amy-Lee Peterson

Development Grade Boys

Canterbury Red: Coach Murray Kennedy,Sam Gallagher,Matthew Ownsworth, Max Smail, Fletcher Miller, Harry Coggan, Christian Dawson, Fletcher Downing, Kraig Dominguez, Zyromme Bayson, Matthew Burgess, Emilio Kennedy

Canterbury Black: Coach Shane Varga, Cameron Talbot, Will Taylor, Brodie Tootell, Lukas Varga, Alex Wenmoth, Isaac Craig, Henry Freeman, Taylor Holland, Jack Kelliher, Keelley Lin

Development Grade Girls

Canterbury Red: Coach Shannon Buckingham, Sophie Daly, Maia Holdem, Poppy Denovan –Stroud, Mandy Herman, Kate Herman, Cassidy Alexander, Meg Williams, Amy Buckmaster, Ella Peoples, Petra

Canterbury Black: Coach Hayden Isitt, Hannah-Rose Daldry, Scarlett Prince, Shannon Britton, Olivia Isitt, Gabby Turner, Annabelle Williams, Jessie Riley, Violette Perry, Alex Tutty, Eva Watson




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