Pratima Singh

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Pratima Singh
Position Small forward/Shooting Guard
Height 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
Weight 63 Kg
Nationality India Indian
Born 6 Feb 1990
Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India

Pratima Singh started playing basketball in 2003 in Uttar Pradesh. She is a member of the India women's national basketball team.[1] With her growing basketball skills she was selected in the Junior Indian team in the year of 2006 and captained the Junior Indian Girls team in 2008. In her leadreship Delhi has won many madels such as Junior National championship in Bhilwara, Rajasthan. She led the Delhi University Team in All India Inter-university, Kottayam, Kerala, 2010 and won the gold medal. She was vice Captain when University of Delhi won a gold medal in the All India University basketball Championship at Nallor, where she was given joint best player award along with her sister Akanksha Singh[citation needed]. A product of Jesus and Mary college (2008–09), she won many 'Best player' titles at the University level. Her peers in college know her as someone with a lot of style and chutzpah. She was nominated as 2nd the Most Glamorous Sports Women in an open online contest.

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 team. They are also known as Singh Sisters.

  • Sister Priyanka Singh (NIS Basketball Coach) wife of Manish Kumar (also an NIS Basketball Coach)
  • Sister Divya Singh (Currently Coach of U16 Indian Men Basketball Team)
  • Sister Prashanti Singh (Current captain of India women's national basketball team)
  • Sister Akanksha Singh (Currently member of India women's national basketball team)

Awards and achievements

  • Shri Prakash Jyoti Award for excellency in sports in Jesus & Mary College,2009–10
  • Sports women of the year in Jesus and Mary college for year 2008-09
  • Best Player in All India Intra University,Nellore,A.P.

International Sporting Achievement

  • Asian Games 2010 Guangzhou,China, 12 November to 27 November 2010
  • 24th FIBA Asian Basketball Championship for Senior Women, 2009, Chennai, India
  • 18th FIBA Asian Basketball Championship for Junior Women 2007, Bangkok, Thailand
  • 2nd FIBA Asian Basketball Championship for Young Women, 2006, Singapore

References

  1. ↑ Pratima Singh Profile, asia-basket.com
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