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Women’s National Team Roster Selected for 2012 Olympic Qualifying Tournament

Category: Basketball Published on Tuesday, 05 June 2012 14:45 Written by Lucas Barrett

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Canada Basketball is proud to announce the 12 athletes selected for 2012 FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournament for Women. The last qualifying tournament for the 2012 Olympic Games will be hosted by Ankara, Turkey and will take place from June 25^th – July 1^st.

                         

2012 SENIOR WOMEN’S NATIONAL TEAM ROSTER

Name	Position	Height		Hometown	School/Club (2011-12)
Natalie Achonwa	Forward	6-3		Guelph, ON	University of Notre Dame (NCAA)
Chelsea Aubry	Forward	6-2		Kitchener, ON	Bendigo Spirit (Australia)
Miranda Ayim	Forward	6-3		London, ON	Istanbul University (Turkey)
Teresa Gabriele	Guard	5-5		Mission, BC	Training in Canada
Lizanne Murphy	Forward	6-1		Beaconsfield, QC	Tarbes (France)
Krista Phillips	Forward	6-6		Saskatoon, SK	Dandenong (Australia)
Courtnay Pilypaitis	Guard	6-1		Orleans, ON	VICI Kaunas (Lithuania)
Michelle Plouffe	Forward	6-4		Edmonton, AB	University of Utah (NCAA)
Kim Smith	Forward	6-1		Mission, BC	Training in Canada/USA
Alisha Tatham	Guard	5-11		Brampton, ON	Training in Canada
Tamara Tatham	Forward	6-1		Brampton, ON	Halles (Germany)
Shona Thorburn	Guard	5-10		Hamilton, ON	Girona (Spain)
2012 SENIOR WOMEN’S NATIONAL TEAM – ALTERNATES
Janelle Bekkering	Guard		5-11	Taber, AB	Lekdetec (Holland)
Krysten Boogaard	Forward		6-5	Regina, SK	Nice (France)
Megan Pinske	Guard		5-9	Coquitlam, B.C	Saarlouis (Germany)
Kendel Ross	Forward		6-1	Sarnia, ON	Training in USA

“We are very excited about this group of athletes that we are taking to the Olympic qualifier,” said head coach, Allison McNeill. “It was a very difficult decision for the coaching staff, as we had many excellent athletes in camp. When we got down to sixteen athletes, they were all capable in playing for Canada.”

The Canadian Senior Women’s National Team will be looking to earn one of five berths that are on the line when they compete in the FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournament for Women. The team will open the tournament versus Mali on June 25^th and play France on June 26^th to finish group play.

In order to qualify, Canada will need to place in the top two in their group and win their quarter-finals game to qualify. If Canada were to lose their quarter-final game, they will face one of the other three quarter-finalists who lost. They will need to win two games in order to qualify for the last berth into the 2012 London Summer Olympics.

Prior to playing in the FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournament for Women, Canada will play two exhibition games versus Great Britain in Scotland and play in an exhibition tournament in France versus Croatia, Czech Republic and France.

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