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India’s Sanjana Ramesh wins the MVP Award at Basketball Without Borders Asia 2018

~ Rence Forthsky from the Philippines wins Boys MVP ~

~ Vaishnavi Yadav from India wins the Grit Award ~

The fourth and final day of Basketball Without Borders Asia 2018 concluded in thrilling fashion as the 66 campers from 16 countries and territories in Asia-Pacific competed in championship games and a pair of All-Star games.

The camp got underway in the morning with the girl’s championship game between the New York Liberty and the Minnesota Lynx.  Coached on the sidelines by Ruth Riley and Sakshi Sheoran, the Lynx defeated the Liberty 20-13.  Paige Price from Australia led the Lynx with a game-high 7 points.

The boy’s championship game then followed, with the Milwaukee Bucks going up against the Brooklyn Nets.  Led by coaches Darvin Ham and Satnam Singh, the Bucks edged past the Bret Brielmaier and Caris LeVert led Nets team 22-18.  Samuel Jenkins from New Zealand scored 8 points in the winning effort.

At the conclusion of the championship games, when the two boys and two girls All-Star teams were announced. Sreekala R the Student from St Gorettis HSS from Thiruvananthapuram finds her name in the Team Red of the girls All-Star team was coached by Ruth Riley, while Ebony Hoffman served as the coach for Team White.  Team Red defeated Team White 27-18, with Dan Zhao from China leading her team to the victory with 8 points.

Following that, the boys All-Star Game was played between Team Red(coached by Bret Brielmaier, Caris LeVert, Darvin Ham and Satnam Singh) and Team White (coached by Ryan Saunders, Mike Wells and Corey Brewer).  Team Red emerged with the 39-37 win thanks to a team-high 8 points from bothClancey Bird and Mac Stoddart.

During a break in the boys All-Star game, the boys and girls 3-point champions took part in fun shooting games.  Boys 3-point champion Amir Hossein from Iran went up against Caris LeVert, while girls 3-point Champion India Bowyer from Australia competed against Ebony Hoffman.

The 10th BWB Asia camp wrapped up with the Awards Ceremony.  Reince Forthsky Padrigao (Philippines) was named Boys MVP, while Sanjana Ramesh from India was crowned as MVP on the girl’s side.

Boys MVP Reince Forthsky from the Philippines said, “I have not only improved as a basketball player but also as an individual. The focus here was on your overall development at the personal and professional level, and I am glad to have won MVP at the end of all of it.”

Girls MVP Sanjana Ramesh from India, who had also won the Co-MVP award at the NBA Academies Women’s camp said, “Whatever I have learnt here playing with international players and coaches I am going to take that back and share the knowledge with my fellow players. Basketball is my life and these four days at the camp were the best I have had in my life.”

The All-Star rosters and full-list of awards winners is as follows

Girls All-Star Team:

Team Red – Rajvi Desai (India), Sunitha Karthik (India), Sreekala Rani (India), India Bowyer (Australia), Pushpa Senthil Kumar (India), Jianjun Gao (China), Dan Zhao (China)

Team White – Siya Deodhar (India), Grishma Niranjan (India), Khushi Dongre (India), Sanjana Ramesh (India), Priyanka Behal (India), Paige Price (Australia), Guanpeng Liu (China)

Boys All-Star Team:

Team Red – Kaiga Matsuo (Japan), Reince Padrigao (Philippines), Joshua James Giddey (Australia), Chien-Hao Ma (China), Amir Hossein Aliyari Dehkordi (Iran), Kian Jamie Dennis (Australia), Matin Aghajanpour (Iran), Clancy Bird (Australia), Mac Stoddart (New Zealand)

Team White – Dwight Powell Chiang-Shuang Chen (Chinese Taipei), Mohammed Sina Vahedi (Iran), Samuel Jenkins (New Zealand), Shintaro Ehara (Japan), Daniel Foster (Australia), Andre Tannoury (Lebanon), Lachlan Joseph Bofinger (Australia), Chao Wu (China), Harshwardhan Tomar (India), Principal Singh (India)

List of Awards:

Boys Grit Award: Taine Murray (New Zealand)

Girls Grit Award: Vaishnavi Yadav (India)

High-Flyer Award: Lachlan Joseph Bofinger (Australia)

Boys 3-Point Champion: Amir Hossein (Iran)

Girls 3-Point Champion: Indian Bowyer (Australia)

Boys All-Star Game MVP: Chen Chiang-Shaun (Chinese-Taipei)

Girls All-Star Game MVP: Dan Zhao (China)

Boys MVP: Reince Forthsky (Philippines)

Girls MVP: Sanjana Ramesh (India)