We are proud to announce that 11 of our players have been selected to the 1st round of ASPIRE Super Region Camp which will be held during the February half term 2023.
This is the first step to being selected to the London Region Team that will head to the All Star National Tournament held at National Basketball Performance Centre in Manchester from Friday 7th July 2023 to Sunday 9th July 2023 competing in 4 regions – North, South, Central and London.
Our 11 players are:
U13 Girls
- Aisha Bah
- Ana Maria Vasilescu
- Asra Swadi
- Elodie Binyam
- Ruby Kearney
U15 Girls
- Joelle Sealy
- Amelia Orungbeja
- Cecilia Victorious
U15 Boys
- Andrew Nwokolu
- Myles Barry
- Lotanna Onwubuya
Aspire aims to develop the basketball and life skills of talented 11-15-year-olds who have the potential to play for England and Great Britain.
The programme will culminate with teams representing the North, Central, London and the South Super Regions taking part the All Star National Tournament in July, in a repeat of this year’s successful inaugural event at the National Basketball Performance Centre in Manchester.
Steve Bucknall, Basketball England’s Head of Talent and Performance, and Director of Coaching at London Thunder said:
‘We are delighted to be able to welcome another group of promising players to the Aspire Programme. Our aim is to develop their skills to help make them better players. We want to see as many as possible of them realise their potential and be able to be progress to the next level on our pathway and feed into England and Great Britain teams. We pleased to see a great range of coaches from clubs across our regions stepping up to drive the programme and the players forward.’
