Team Canada training for U18 Americas Championship at Durham College

For the second straight year, Canada Basketball is holding its junior women’s national team training camp at Durham College (DC). This year, the team is preparing for the FIBA (International Basketball Federation) Americas U18 Championship at DC’s Campus Recreation and Wellness Centre (CRWC). Last year, the team trained for the FIBA U19 World Championships.

Players from across the country have joined Head Coach Rich Chambers for a two-week training camp that started on July 18 and will run through to Thursday, July 31.

“I was very excited and honoured when I found out I was selected to be part of national team again this year,” said Shay Colley, who plays guard and hails from Brampton, Ont. “I first got involved with basketball when I was younger because I was tall and it was something that was popular in my community. To go from playing this sport as a little girl to now playing on the national team is a dream come true.”

The team will travel to Colorado Springs, Colo., at the conclusion of training camp and will face El Salvador in their first Group A match-up on Wednesday, August 6. The weeklong tournament will also see Team Canada take on Mexico and the United States in the preliminary rounds.

Canada’s junior women’s team is currently ranked fourth in the FIBA World Rankings and previously finished seventh in the 2013 U19 World Championships in Lithuania and third in the 2012 U17 Women’s Championship in Chile.

For more information on all the national teams and programs, visit Canada Basketball.