The teams for the 65th National junior Basketball Championship (Under 19 Boys and Girls) scheduled at Kochi in Kerala from May 26 to June 2 have been announced.
The Girls team of Chhattisgarh would be led by Sharanjeet Kaur while P Rajesh will lead the Boys team, informed Chhattisgarh Basketball Association President Rajeev Jain on Thursday. Notably P Rajesh Sharanjeet and P Rajesh both playing for Bhilai Steel Plant (BSP) are international level players.
Jain further informed that other members of Girls team are Sangeeta Das, A Kavita, Sonali Dutta (Surguja), Kaplana Patel Sangeeta Kaur, Puja Ambabhat, Filu Maria (Kawardha) Riya Verma (BSP), , Neesha Netam (Durg), Radhika Mahadavre (Raipur) and Kiran Yadav (Rajnandgaon).
The chief Coach of Girl’s team is Rajesh Patel of BSP. Iqbal Ahmed Khan (BSP) and Satish Mishra (Raipur) would assist Patel. The team managers are Manjusha Nair and Sanjeet Kaur.
The Boys team comprise of K Shiv Kumar, Rajat Shrivastav, Tarendra Yadav, Dinesh Mishrs, Kribhan Kumar (BSP) Anil Kumar, Saif Hasmi and Atul (Rajnandgaon), Mithun Das (Durg Municipal Corporation), Dwarka Prasad (Durg), Ashibha (Korba).
The Chief Coach for Boy’s team will be RS Gaur from BSP while Vipin Behari Singh from Korba would be the assistant coaches. Virendra Deshmukh from Raipur has been appointed as Team Manager.