Prashanti Singh
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Prashanti Singh is a shooting guard for the Indian national women's basketball team
. She represented the team at 2006 Commonwealth Games
. She is part of Varanasi's "Basketball Family of India" where four out of five sisters has played or playing for Indian national team.
Prashanti joined the Indian Women's Basketball Team in 2003 and became its captain. She played as captain in 3rd Asian Indoor Games were held in Vietnam on 30 October – 8 November 2009 won Silver medal and 16th Asian Games at Guangzhou China in November 2010. Prashanti Singh is one of the top four A grade player of India selected and sponsored by basketball federation of india
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India women's national basketball team
India women's national basketball team is a national women's national basketball team, from India.-Current roster:The following is the Indian women squad that participated in the 2007 FIBA Asia Basketball Championship Cup at Korea....
. She represented the team at 2006 Commonwealth Games
2006 Commonwealth Games
The 2006 Commonwealth Games were held in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia between 15 March and 26 March 2006. It was the largest sporting event to be staged in Melbourne, eclipsing the 1956 Summer Olympics in terms of the number of teams competing, athletes competing, and events being held.The site...
. She is part of Varanasi's "Basketball Family of India" where four out of five sisters has played or playing for Indian national team.
Prashanti joined the Indian Women's Basketball Team in 2003 and became its captain. She played as captain in 3rd Asian Indoor Games were held in Vietnam on 30 October – 8 November 2009 won Silver medal and 16th Asian Games at Guangzhou China in November 2010. Prashanti Singh is one of the top four A grade player of India selected and sponsored by basketball federation of india
Basketball Federation of India
Basketball Federation of India is the governing and controlling body of Basketball in India, responsible for the development and promotion of the Sport at all levels. BFI oversees all the national level basketball operations in India...
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International Sporting Achievements
- 2011: 1st Asian Beach Games, Sri Lanka - won Gold
- 2011: FIBA Asian Basketball Championship for Senior women,Nagasaki, Japan
- 2011: 33 William Jones Cup, Chinese taipei
- 2010: 16th Asian Games, Guangzhou, China (as captain)
- 2009: Asian Indoor GamesAsian Indoor GamesThe Asian Indoor Games is a multi-sport event held every two years among athletes representing countries from Asia. The games are regulated by the Olympic Council of Asia. The first games were held in 2005 in Bangkok, Thailand....
, VietnamVietnamVietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...
(as captain) - won silver - 2009: FIBA Asian Basketball Championship for Senior women, Chennai
- 3 to 10 June 2007: FIBA Asia Championship for Women, IncheonIncheonThe Incheon Metropolitan City is located in northwestern South Korea. The city was home to just 4,700 people when Jemulpo port was built in 1883. Today 2.76 million people live in the city, making it Korea’s third most populous city after Seoul and Busan Metropolitan City...
, South KoreaSouth KoreaThe Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...
- Pool B winner - 15 to 26 March 2006: 2006 Commonwealth Games2006 Commonwealth GamesThe 2006 Commonwealth Games were held in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia between 15 March and 26 March 2006. It was the largest sporting event to be staged in Melbourne, eclipsing the 1956 Summer Olympics in terms of the number of teams competing, athletes competing, and events being held.The site...
, MelbourneMelbourneMelbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...
- point guard - 7 to 12 March 2006, Friendly Match Series, AucklandAucklandThe Auckland metropolitan area , in the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest and most populous urban area in the country with residents, percent of the country's population. Auckland also has the largest Polynesian population of any city in the world...
, New ZealandNew ZealandNew Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga... - 22 to 25 September 2006: First Phuket International Invitational Basketball Championship, ThailandThailandThailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the...
- won gold - 13 to 19 January 2005: 20th Asian Basketball Confederation Championship for Senior Women, Sendai, JapanJapanJapan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
- won silver Level II - Portdiction International Invitation Tournament - won bronze
- 2002-3: Fiba Asia Basketball Championship for Junior Women, Chinese Taipei
National Sporting achievement
- Silver Medal in 61st IMG Reliance National Basketball Championship 2010-11, New DelhiNew DelhiNew Delhi is the capital city of India. It serves as the centre of the Government of India and the Government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi. New Delhi is situated within the metropolis of Delhi. It is one of the nine districts of Delhi Union Territory. The total area of the city is...
- Silver Medal in 60th National Basketball Championship 2009-10, Ludhiana, Punjab
- Silver Medal in 59th National Basketball Championship 2008-09, suratSuratSurat , also known as Suryapur, is the commercial capital city of the Indian state of Gujarat. Surat is India's Eighth most populous city and Ninth-most populous urban agglomeration. It is also administrative capital of Surat district and one of the fastest growing cities in India. The city proper...
, GujratGujratGujrat is a city in Pakistan. It is the capital of Gujrat District and the Gujrat Tehsil subdivision in the Punjab Province. People living in Gujrat refer to themselves as Gujratis, which sometimes leads to confusion with people from the Indian state of Gujarat which adjoins Pakistan...
- Silver Medal in 58th National basketball championship 2007-08, Pondicherry,
- Silver Medal in 57th Senior National Basketball Championship 2006-07, JaipurJaipurJaipur , also popularly known as the Pink City, is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Rajasthan. Founded on 18 November 1727 by Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh II, the ruler of Amber, the city today has a population of more than 3.1 million....
, RajasthanRajasthanRājasthān the land of Rajasthanis, , is the largest state of the Republic of India by area. It is located in the northwest of India. It encompasses most of the area of the large, inhospitable Great Indian Desert , which has an edge paralleling the Sutlej-Indus river valley along its border with...
- Silver Medal in 22nd Federation Cup Basketball Championship, 2006, Jamshedpur, Jharkhand
- Silver Medal in 56th Senior National Basketball Championship, 2006, Pune, MaharashtraMaharashtraMaharashtra is a state located in India. It is the second most populous after Uttar Pradesh and third largest state by area in India...
- Silver Medal in R.Vaikuntam Cup Basketball Championship for Women, 2005, New DelhiNew DelhiNew Delhi is the capital city of India. It serves as the centre of the Government of India and the Government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi. New Delhi is situated within the metropolis of Delhi. It is one of the nine districts of Delhi Union Territory. The total area of the city is...
- Silver Medal in 21st Karp Impex Federation Cup Basketball Championship, 2005, BhavnagarBhavnagar-Topography:Bhavnagar is a coastal city in the eastern coast of Saurashtra, also known as Kathiawar, located at . It has an average elevation of 24 metres . It occupies area of 53.30 km². General slope dips in the northeasterly direction at the apex of Gulf of Khambhat...
, Gujarat
- Silver Medal in 55th Senior National Basketball Championship, 2005, Ludhiana, PunjabPunjab (India)Punjab ) is a state in the northwest of the Republic of India, forming part of the larger Punjab region. The state is bordered by the Indian states of Himachal Pradesh to the east, Haryana to the south and southeast and Rajasthan to the southwest as well as the Pakistani province of Punjab to the...
- Bronze Medal in 20th Federation Cup Basketball Championship, 2003, Vashi, Navi Mumbai
- Gold Medal in 53rd Senior National Basketball Championship, 2003, Hyderabad, AP
Awards and Achievement
- April 2011: Captained team West & won Best Player award in All Star Game in Mumbai.
- February 2011: Top scorer award with 129 points (25.8 point/game) in prestigious 25th IMG-Reliance Federation Cup, Raipur
- 2011: She is one of the first ever ranked Top Four A Grade elite Basketball player of India.
- 2010: Elle Magazine - first Indian basketball player featured in May 2010 edition
- October 2006: Century Sports Award by Century Sports Club, VaranasiVaranasi-Etymology:The name Varanasi has its origin possibly from the names of the two rivers Varuna and Assi, for the old city lies in the north shores of the Ganga bounded by its two tributaries, the Varuna and the Asi, with the Ganges being to its south...
- August 2006: Outstanding Player Honour by UP College Old Students’ AssociationVoluntary associationA voluntary association or union is a group of individuals who enter into an agreement as volunteers to form a body to accomplish a purpose.Strictly speaking, in many jurisdictions no formalities are necessary to start an association...
- December 2002: Best Player Award in UP State School Championship, held at Ghaziabad
Family
She comes from a family of Indian basketball players, three of her sisters currently are a member of the Indian women's national basketball teamIndia women's national basketball team
India women's national basketball team is a national women's national basketball team, from India.-Current roster:The following is the Indian women squad that participated in the 2007 FIBA Asia Basketball Championship Cup at Korea....
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- Sister Priyanka Singh (NISNational Institute of SportsFounded in 1961, Netaji Subhas National Institute of Sports or NIS, is Asia's largest Sports Institute located in princely city of Patiala...
BasketballBasketballBasketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
Coach) wife of Manish Kumar (also an NISNational Institute of SportsFounded in 1961, Netaji Subhas National Institute of Sports or NIS, is Asia's largest Sports Institute located in princely city of Patiala...
BasketballBasketballBasketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
Coach)
- Sister Divya SinghDivya SinghDivya Singh is former captain for the India women's national basketball team. Divya led the Indian women's basketball team at the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games. She is one of the best women basketballers in India, known for her game skills, leadership qualities, academic strength and...
(Currently Student and working with University of DelawareUniversity of DelawareThe university is organized into seven colleges:* College of Agriculture and Natural Resources* College of Arts and Sciences* Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics* College of Earth, Ocean and Environment* College of Education and Human Development...
women's basketball team)
- Sister Akanksha SinghAkanksha SinghAkanksha Singh current captain of India Women's National Basketball Team. She is the member of national women team since 2004 to till date. In 2010, Akanksha singh was awarded the Most Valuable Player in India’s first Professional Basketball league, MBPL 2010...
(Currently member of India women's national basketball teamIndia women's national basketball teamIndia women's national basketball team is a national women's national basketball team, from India.-Current roster:The following is the Indian women squad that participated in the 2007 FIBA Asia Basketball Championship Cup at Korea....
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- Sister Pratima SinghPratima SinghPratima Singh started her basketball playing journey in 2003 in Uttar Pradesh.she is a member of the India women's national basketball team. with her skills...
(Currently Captain Junior India women national basketball team)
External links
- The Hindu : Sport / Basketball : Tamil Nadu women follow the men out
- Girl power : Simply Delhi: India Today
- Director Jagmohan Mundhra At '4PM On The Court' - World News, 107503
- http://www.hindustantimes.com/I-don-t-think-there-should-be-comparisons-Jhulan-Goswami/H1-Article1-516490.aspx
- Tubaah: Varanasi sisters aim for basketball glory
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- Tubaah: Varanasi sisters aim for basketball glory