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2012 Boys U15 Teamprofile

At the National Championships in Toronto last summer, the U15 Team Ontario Boys won their five games by an average of 33 points. After they defeated British Columbia by 37 in the Finals to earn the gold medal, head coach Jeff Giovanatti spoke of his players staying on course and dreaming big. “I’m proud and humble; they’re a great group of kids to coach,” Giovanatti said.

Many of the players have indeed stayed on course and dreamed big, with some moving on to the U17 team. Going into the Nationals in Sherbrooke, the U15 team has almost an entirely new roster. Only Nolan Narrain of Hamilton returns from the team that won gold at Humber College in 2011. He’s joined, though, by a number of players who have won big at Ontario Cup for their respective clubs and at the high school level. Expect them to be ready.

Giovanatti will be prepared, too, back on the sideline with another great group of boys. Ontario Basketball recognized the deep talent pool in the province and has created a second team or “development” squad at the Under 15 level. These talented athletes will train with the provincial team, travel and compete in AAU events. Rest assured, they’re dreaming of more dominance.

Above: Coach Giovanatti jokes courtside with Ontario Alumni and NBA draftee Cory Joseph.

2012 Boys U15 Teamcoaching staff

JEFFREY GIOVANATTIHEAD COACH

Giovanatti has won gold medals as the head coach of U15 Team Ontario in 2008, 2010 and 2011 … A Level 3 NCCP technical certified coach … Head coach of the senior boys basketball team at Korah

Collegiate Institute in Sault Ste. Marie …

In 2004, head coach for the North region in the Bantam and Midget Development Programs … Coaches with the U14 and U15 Sault Sharks … Involved with Canada Basketball’s Centre for Performance … Regional Training Centre head coach … Guest coach with the U16 Canadian Men’s National Cadet Team in 2011 … Played for the University of Western Ontario, earning Academic All-Canadian status in 2003 while completing his Bachelor of Education in Science.

In 2006 and 2007, assistant coach for U15 Team Ontario, winning gold and silver medals respectively …

JASON DAWKINSASSISTANT COACH

Won gold medals as an assistant coach for U15 Team Ontario in 2010 and 2011 … Assistant coach with Ryerson University for three years … Teaches at Bloor Collegiate Institute, where he coaches the

junior and senior basketball teams … Coaches in the Toronto Triple Threat organization … Chair of the Ontario Basketball Elite Development Committee and Chair of the Junior Development Program … Convenor at the Raptors Basketball Academy since its creation … As a player, Dawkins won three consecutive Toronto high school championships and back-to-back OFSAA championships with Eastern Commerce Collegiate Institute … Played at Brandon University, appearing in two CIS National Championships.

TONY MARCOTULLIO ASSISTANT COACH

Marcotullio is a London native and the head coach of the Fanshawe Falcons … Head coach at the Centre for Performance for Canada Basketball in London … Seven OFSAA appearances as the head

coach at London powerhouse H.B. Beal Secondary School … Certified Level 3 NCCP coach … Served as the WOSAA and TVDSB Boys’ Basketball Convenor from 2000-2004 … Served as OFSAA Basketball AAAA Convenor … Director/Instructor of Runn’n Raiders Basketball Program from 1994-2005 … Assistant coach at Wilfred Laurier University in 1991-1992, after serving as team captain from 1988-1990 … MVP of the Wilfred Laurier Golden Hawks in 1990 and was an OUA All-Star while leading the division in scoring … Played on Ontario’s U21 provincial team.


At the National Championships in Toronto last summer, the U15 Team Ontario Boys won their five games by an average of 33 points. After they defeated British Columbia by 37 in the Finals to earn the gold medal, head coach Jeff Giovanatti spoke of his players staying on course and dreaming big. “I’m proud and humble; they’re a great group of kids to coach,” Giovanatti said.

Many of the players have indeed stayed on course and dreamed big, with some moving on to the U17 team. Going into the Nationals in Sherbrooke, the U15 team has almost an entirely new roster. Only Nolan Narrain of Hamilton returns from the team that won gold at Humber College in 2011. He’s joined, though, by a number of players who have won big at Ontario Cup for their respective clubs and at the high school level. Expect them to be ready.

Giovanatti will be prepared, too, back on the sideline with another great group of boys. Ontario Basketball recognized the deep talent pool in the province and has created a second team or “development” squad at the Under 15 level. These talented athletes will train with the provincial team, travel and compete in AAU events. Rest assured, they’re dreaming of more dominance.

Above: Coach Giovanatti jokes courtside with Ontario Alumni and NBA draftee Cory Joseph.


JEFFREY GIOVANATTIHEAD COACH

Giovanatti has won gold medals as the head coach of U15 Team Ontario in 2008, 2010 and 2011 … A Level 3 NCCP technical certified coach … Head coach of the senior boys basketball team at Korah

Collegiate Institute in Sault Ste. Marie …

In 2004, head coach for the North region in the Bantam and Midget Development Programs … Coaches with the U14 and U15 Sault Sharks … Involved with Canada Basketball’s Centre for Performance … Regional Training Centre head coach … Guest coach with the U16 Canadian Men’s National Cadet Team in 2011 … Played for the University of Western Ontario, earning Academic All-Canadian status in 2003 while completing his Bachelor of Education in Science.

In 2006 and 2007, assistant coach for U15 Team Ontario, winning gold and silver medals respectively …

JASON DAWKINSASSISTANT COACH

Won gold medals as an assistant coach for U15 Team Ontario in 2010 and 2011 … Assistant coach with Ryerson University for three years … Teaches at Bloor Collegiate Institute, where he coaches the

junior and senior basketball teams … Coaches in the Toronto Triple Threat organization … Chair of the Ontario Basketball Elite Development Committee and Chair of the Junior Development Program … Convenor at the Raptors Basketball Academy since its creation … As a player, Dawkins won three consecutive Toronto high school championships and back-to-back OFSAA championships with Eastern Commerce Collegiate Institute … Played at Brandon University, appearing in two CIS National Championships.

TONY MARCOTULLIO ASSISTANT COACH

Marcotullio is a London native and the head coach of the Fanshawe Falcons … Head coach at the Centre for Performance for Canada Basketball in London … Seven OFSAA appearances as the head

coach at London powerhouse H.B. Beal Secondary School … Certified Level 3 NCCP coach … Served as the WOSAA and TVDSB Boys’ Basketball Convenor from 2000-2004 … Served as OFSAA Basketball AAAA Convenor … Director/Instructor of Runn’n Raiders Basketball Program from 1994-2005 … Assistant coach at Wilfred Laurier University in 1991-1992, after serving as team captain from 1988-1990 … MVP of the Wilfred Laurier Golden Hawks in 1990 and was an OUA All-Star while leading the division in scoring … Played on Ontario’s U21 provincial team.

2012 Boys U15 TeamAthletes

MAXIME BOURSIQUOTPosition: Guard/ForwardAge: 15Height: 6-3Hometown: OttawaSchool: Immaculata H.S. Club: Ottawa Guardsmen

Boursiquot’s most memorable basketball moment is making Team Ontario … Won City Championships in 2012 … MVP of 2011 National Capital All-Star Classic … Played in 2012 Corporate Hype All-Star Classic … Aims to play on the Canadian national team and then make the NBA … Wants to become a doctor … Favourite player is Kobe Bryant because he is a winner … Started playing basketball in grade 8 after he injured himself playing football … Honour roll student.

DANIEL CUMMINGSPosition: ForwardAge: 15Height: 6-4Hometown: ScarboroughSchool: St. Andrew’s CollegeClub: Scarborough Blues

Cummings’ favourite basketball moment is when he found out he made Team Ontario … Has played in AAU tournaments in Rochester, Akron, Buffalo and Syracuse with the Scarborough Blues … Aspires are to play NCAA basketball … Favourite player is Kevin Durant because of his versatility and heart … Started playing basketball in grade 5 … Has won a Most Improved Academics award and most Improved Player award for volleyball … Played in YAAACE All-Star Game in 2011 … Has competed in track and field.

TYRELL GUMBS-FRATER Position: Guard/ForwardAge: 14Height: 6-1Hometown: ScarboroughSchool: Pope John Paul IIClub: Markham Gators

Gumbs-Frater is a first-time member of Team Ontario … Has played in Ontario Cup finals in Division 1 … Has played in the TDCAA finals with Pope John Paul II … Most memorable basketball memories are beating Blessed Sacrament in an SBA Tournament and a win against the Advantage Titans … Second-team all-star at the Double Blue Tip-Off tournament … Won MVP awards, a sportsmanship award and a merit award … Aspires to play in the NBA … Favourite player is LeBron James because he believes he is the most complete player in the game … Started playing basketball in grade 1.

PARKER JOYCEPosition: Guard/ForwardAge: 15Height: 6-0Hometown: StouffvilleSchool: CGMA PrivateClub: Advantage Titans

Joyce is a first-time member of Team Ontario … Has played OBA for seven years … Won a Division 2 championship with the Advantage Titans … Aspires to earn a full scholarship to play university basketball and then play overseas … Favourite player is Carmelo Anthony because of his scoring ability … Honour roll student … Started playing basketball at the age of eight.


SAVO KRAJISNIKPosition: Guard/ForwardAge: 15Height: 6-0Hometown: WaterlooSchool: Bluevale C.I.Club: Hamilton Wildcats

Krajisnik is a first time member of Team Ontario … Most enjoyable moment is his team’s Division 2 championship win on a buzzer-beater … Aims to play professionally in the NBA or overseas … Favourite player is Magic Johnson because of his passing ability at his size … Started playing basketball in grade 4 … Plays saxophone, piano, speaks three languages … Honour roll student.

TYRELL LEOTAUDPosition: ForwardAge: 15Height: 6-5Hometown: ScarboroughSchool: St. Mike’sClub: Making Hoops

Leotaud is a first time member of Team Ontario … His most memorable basketball moment is when he scored 46 points in a conference finals game in grade 6 … He won the TDSB championship in grade 5 with his elementary school team … Favourite player is Kevin Durant because he’s tall, long, versatile and unselfish … Started playing basketball at the age of nine.

KESHON MONTAGUE

Age: 15Height: 5-10Hometown: RexdaleSchool: St. Marguerite d’YouvilleClub: CIA Bounce

Montague is on Team Ontario for the first time this summer … He has been named an All-Star in various tournaments, including the Rimrocker Junior Tournament and the Jr. Crusaders Tournament … Most memorable moment is scoring 27 points in a tournament game in Ohio … Aspires to play in the NBA or work in real estate … Favourite players are LeBron James and Russell Westbrook … Started playing basketball at the age of seven.

Position: GuardNOLAN NARAIN

Age: 14Height: 6-9Hometown: HamiltonSchool: Sir Allan MacNab S.S.Club: Blessed Sacrament

Narain is a two-time member of Team Ontario, as he won gold with the U15 boys last year and grabbed a team-high nine rebounds in the championship game … Won back-to-back OBA Division 1 Championships in 2010 and 2011 with Blessed Sacrament … All-Star at the 2011 SBA Tournament … 2011 YAAACE Tournament MVP … Played in the 2011 YAAACE All-Star Game … Aspires to play Division 1 basketball and then turn professional … Favourite player is Kevin Durant … Started playing basketball when he was six.

Position: Forward


MAXIME BOURSIQUOTPosition: Guard/ForwardAge: 15Height: 6-3Hometown: OttawaSchool: Immaculata H.S. Club: Ottawa Guardsmen

Boursiquot’s most memorable basketball moment is making Team Ontario … Won City Championships in 2012 … MVP of 2011 National Capital All-Star Classic … Played in 2012 Corporate Hype All-Star Classic … Aims to play on the Canadian national team and then make the NBA … Wants to become a doctor … Favourite player is Kobe Bryant because he is a winner … Started playing basketball in grade 8 after he injured himself playing football … Honour roll student.

DANIEL CUMMINGSPosition: ForwardAge: 15Height: 6-4Hometown: ScarboroughSchool: St. Andrew’s CollegeClub: Scarborough Blues

Cummings’ favourite basketball moment is when he found out he made Team Ontario … Has played in AAU tournaments in Rochester, Akron, Buffalo and Syracuse with the Scarborough Blues … Aspires are to play NCAA basketball … Favourite player is Kevin Durant because of his versatility and heart … Started playing basketball in grade 5 … Has won a Most Improved Academics award and most Improved Player award for volleyball … Played in YAAACE All-Star Game in 2011 … Has competed in track and field.

TYRELL GUMBS-FRATER Position: Guard/ForwardAge: 14Height: 6-1Hometown: ScarboroughSchool: Pope John Paul IIClub: Markham Gators

Gumbs-Frater is a first-time member of Team Ontario … Has played in Ontario Cup finals in Division 1 … Has played in the TDCAA finals with Pope John Paul II … Most memorable basketball memories are beating Blessed Sacrament in an SBA Tournament and a win against the Advantage Titans … Second-team all-star at the Double Blue Tip-Off tournament … Won MVP awards, a sportsmanship award and a merit award … Aspires to play in the NBA … Favourite player is LeBron James because he believes he is the most complete player in the game … Started playing basketball in grade 1.

PARKER JOYCEPosition: Guard/ForwardAge: 15Height: 6-0Hometown: StouffvilleSchool: CGMA PrivateClub: Advantage Titans

Joyce is a first-time member of Team Ontario … Has played OBA for seven years … Won a Division 2 championship with the Advantage Titans … Aspires to earn a full scholarship to play university basketball and then play overseas … Favourite player is Carmelo Anthony because of his scoring ability … Honour roll student … Started playing basketball at the age of eight.


SAVO KRAJISNIKPosition: Guard/ForwardAge: 15Height: 6-0Hometown: WaterlooSchool: Bluevale C.I.Club: Hamilton Wildcats

Krajisnik is a first time member of Team Ontario … Most enjoyable moment is his team’s Division 2 championship win on a buzzer-beater … Aims to play professionally in the NBA or overseas … Favourite player is Magic Johnson because of his passing ability at his size … Started playing basketball in grade 4 … Plays saxophone, piano, speaks three languages … Honour roll student.

TYRELL LEOTAUDPosition: ForwardAge: 15Height: 6-5Hometown: ScarboroughSchool: St. Mike’sClub: Making Hoops

Leotaud is a first time member of Team Ontario … His most memorable basketball moment is when he scored 46 points in a conference finals game in grade 6 … He won the TDSB championship in grade 5 with his elementary school team … Favourite player is Kevin Durant because he’s tall, long, versatile and unselfish … Started playing basketball at the age of nine.

KESHON MONTAGUE

Age: 15Height: 5-10Hometown: RexdaleSchool: St. Marguerite d’YouvilleClub: CIA Bounce

Montague is on Team Ontario for the first time this summer … He has been named an All-Star in various tournaments, including the Rimrocker Junior Tournament and the Jr. Crusaders Tournament … Most memorable moment is scoring 27 points in a tournament game in Ohio … Aspires to play in the NBA or work in real estate … Favourite players are LeBron James and Russell Westbrook … Started playing basketball at the age of seven.

Position: GuardNOLAN NARAIN

Age: 14Height: 6-9Hometown: HamiltonSchool: Sir Allan MacNab S.S.Club: Blessed Sacrament

Narain is a two-time member of Team Ontario, as he won gold with the U15 boys last year and grabbed a team-high nine rebounds in the championship game … Won back-to-back OBA Division 1 Championships in 2010 and 2011 with Blessed Sacrament … All-Star at the 2011 SBA Tournament … 2011 YAAACE Tournament MVP … Played in the 2011 YAAACE All-Star Game … Aspires to play Division 1 basketball and then turn professional … Favourite player is Kevin Durant … Started playing basketball when he was six.

Position: Forward


MARCUS OTTEY

Age: 15Height: 6-1Hometown: AjaxSchool: J. Clark RichardsonClub: YAAACE

Ottey is a first time member of Team Ontario … He made it to the OBA Finals with YAAACE …

Second Team All-Star at Jean Vanier Double Blue Tip-Off Tournament in 2011 … Made the Clash For The Cup 14U All-Tournament Team in 2011 … Wants to play Division 1 basketball and then play professionally or become a high school basketball coach … Has won MVP and Defensive Player of the Year awards … Earned the responsibility award at school … Favourite basketball player is Chris Paul … Father, Milt, is an eight-time national high jump champion and a member of the Athletics Canada Hall of Fame.

Position: Guard

Made the 2012 Best of the Best All-Tournament Team …

TYLER PLUMMER

Age: 14Height: 6-3Hometown: VaughanSchool: St. CeciliaClub: Vaughan Panthers

Plummer is a first time member of Team Ontario … He led the Vaughan Panthers in scoring and rebounding … Won five consecutive OBA Division 1 Club titles … Won two MVP awards … Aspires to play in the NBA or become a doctor … Favourite player is Kevin Durant because he believe he is unguardable and makes his teammates better … Favourite artist is Drake … Honour roll student … Started playing basketball at 11 years of age.

Position: Forward

SASHA SIMIC

Age: 15Height: 6-3Hometown: KitchenerSchool: Cameron HeightsClub: Hamilton Wildcats

Simic is a first time member of Team Ontario … He was named an All-Star when his Cameron Heights team won the Purple and Gold Tournament in 2012 … Named a WCSSAA Junior All-Star in 2012 … Aspires to play basketball at the University of Gonzaga and then play professionally … Models his game after his favourite player, Paul Pierce … Favourite basketball moment is scoring 14 points in two and a half minutes to give his team a win … Won Rookie of the Year award in high school … Honour student … Played basketball since the age of six.

Position: Guard-ForwardKALIF YOUNG Position: Age: 15Height: 6-5Hometown: TorontoSchool: OakwoodClub: Toronto Triple Threat

Young made it to the OFSAA Championship with Oakwood last season … His most memorable basketball moment was beating Eastern Commerce to qualify for OFSAA … Aspires to play NCAA basketball … Won an Athlete of the Year award in middle school … Favourite player is Paul Pierce because of his fundamentals … Started playing basketball at the age of eight.

Forward/Centre

2012 Boys u15 development Teamcoaching staff

WARREN WILLIAMSHEAD COACH

Williams has been coaching basketball for 17 years … Won a gold medal as an assistant coach for U15 Team Ontario in 2011 … Assistant coach at York University and a head coach at Ontario’s Centre

for Performance … Spent five years coaching with the Elite Development Program, won the 2010 boys Ontario Summer Games … Finalist at the 2009 USSSA National Championships … Coached Applewood Heights Basketball for five years, winning the 2008 ROPSSAA AAA Girls championship … Spent one year as an assistant coach with the U19 Sultan Prospects Girls, placing fourth at the 2010 Ontario Cup … Coached the Scarborough Blues U12, U14 and U17 boys teams for six years, winning the 2005 Ontario Cup Division 2 with the U12 boys.

GORDON EVERETTASSISTANT COACH

Everett is NCCP Level 3 certified and has coached within the Elite Development Program for three years as a regional coach … Coaches boys and girls programs at the Centre for Performance …

Vice president and head coach of the Major Atom Division 1 and Junior Girls Division 3 for the Caledon Cougars … Captured Division 1 silver medal with Novice Girls in 2011 and Division 1 bronze medal with Novice Girls in 2010.

AKIN ALAO

Age: 15Height: 6-2Hometown: VaughanSchool: St. Jean de BrebeufClub: Advantage Titans

Alao won MVP honours in a tournament in New York with his club team … An honour roll student … Favourite player is Kevin Garnett because of his intensity and passion … Started playing basketball at the age of five … Most memorable basketball moment is when he came close to a triple double with blocks.

Position: Guard/Forward

2012 Boys u15 development Teamathletes


MARCUS OTTEY

Age: 15Height: 6-1Hometown: AjaxSchool: J. Clark RichardsonClub: YAAACE

Ottey is a first time member of Team Ontario … He made it to the OBA Finals with YAAACE …

Second Team All-Star at Jean Vanier Double Blue Tip-Off Tournament in 2011 … Made the Clash For The Cup 14U All-Tournament Team in 2011 … Wants to play Division 1 basketball and then play professionally or become a high school basketball coach … Has won MVP and Defensive Player of the Year awards … Earned the responsibility award at school … Favourite basketball player is Chris Paul … Father, Milt, is an eight-time national high jump champion and a member of the Athletics Canada Hall of Fame.

Position: Guard

Made the 2012 Best of the Best All-Tournament Team …

TYLER PLUMMER

Age: 14Height: 6-3Hometown: VaughanSchool: St. CeciliaClub: Vaughan Panthers

Plummer is a first time member of Team Ontario … He led the Vaughan Panthers in scoring and rebounding … Won five consecutive OBA Division 1 Club titles … Won two MVP awards … Aspires to play in the NBA or become a doctor … Favourite player is Kevin Durant because he believe he is unguardable and makes his teammates better … Favourite artist is Drake … Honour roll student … Started playing basketball at 11 years of age.

Position: Forward

SASHA SIMIC

Age: 15Height: 6-3Hometown: KitchenerSchool: Cameron HeightsClub: Hamilton Wildcats

Simic is a first time member of Team Ontario … He was named an All-Star when his Cameron Heights team won the Purple and Gold Tournament in 2012 … Named a WCSSAA Junior All-Star in 2012 … Aspires to play basketball at the University of Gonzaga and then play professionally … Models his game after his favourite player, Paul Pierce … Favourite basketball moment is scoring 14 points in two and a half minutes to give his team a win … Won Rookie of the Year award in high school … Honour student … Played basketball since the age of six.

Position: Guard-ForwardKALIF YOUNG Position: Age: 15Height: 6-5Hometown: TorontoSchool: OakwoodClub: Toronto Triple Threat

Young made it to the OFSAA Championship with Oakwood last season … His most memorable basketball moment was beating Eastern Commerce to qualify for OFSAA … Aspires to play NCAA basketball … Won an Athlete of the Year award in middle school … Favourite player is Paul Pierce because of his fundamentals … Started playing basketball at the age of eight.

Forward/Centre

2012 Boys u15 development Teamcoaching staff

WARREN WILLIAMSHEAD COACH

Williams has been coaching basketball for 17 years … Won a gold medal as an assistant coach for U15 Team Ontario in 2011 … Assistant coach at York University and a head coach at Ontario’s Centre

for Performance … Spent five years coaching with the Elite Development Program, won the 2010 boys Ontario Summer Games … Finalist at the 2009 USSSA National Championships … Coached Applewood Heights Basketball for five years, winning the 2008 ROPSSAA AAA Girls championship … Spent one year as an assistant coach with the U19 Sultan Prospects Girls, placing fourth at the 2010 Ontario Cup … Coached the Scarborough Blues U12, U14 and U17 boys teams for six years, winning the 2005 Ontario Cup Division 2 with the U12 boys.

GORDON EVERETTASSISTANT COACH

Everett is NCCP Level 3 certified and has coached within the Elite Development Program for three years as a regional coach … Coaches boys and girls programs at the Centre for Performance …

Vice president and head coach of the Major Atom Division 1 and Junior Girls Division 3 for the Caledon Cougars … Captured Division 1 silver medal with Novice Girls in 2011 and Division 1 bronze medal with Novice Girls in 2010.

AKIN ALAO

Age: 15Height: 6-2Hometown: VaughanSchool: St. Jean de BrebeufClub: Advantage Titans

Alao won MVP honours in a tournament in New York with his club team … An honour roll student … Favourite player is Kevin Garnett because of his intensity and passion … Started playing basketball at the age of five … Most memorable basketball moment is when he came close to a triple double with blocks.


2012 Boys u15 development Teamathletes

2012 Boys U15 development Teamathletes

GRANT AUDU

Age: 14Height: 6-2Hometown: MississaugaHigh School: Father Henry CarrClub: CIA Bounce

Audu has been playing basketball since the age of three and stuck with it because of his older brother … His favourite player is Kevin Durant because he can score in a variety of ways … He aspires to play professional basketball, be it in the NBA or somewhere else … He has won a Bounce tournament, traveled to Michigan for a tournament and received an MVP award.

Position: ForwardROMMELL CALURA

Age: 15Height: 6-0Hometown: HamiltonSchool: St. Jean de BrebeufClub: Blessed Sacrament

Calura won back-to-back Division 1 OBA championships with Blessed Sacrament … Tournament all-star at the Blue and Gold Invitational junior basketball tournament at Notre Dame College in 2011 … MVP of the Bantam division at 2011 NABA Intercity Basketball Tournament … Aspires to play basketball at the university level … Favourite NBA player is Kevin Durant.

Position: Guard

BAKHSHISH (BOBBY) DHALIWAL

Age: 13Height: 6-6Hometown: BramptonSchool: Turner Fenton S.S.Club: Brampton Warriors

Dhaliwal is a first time member of Team Ontario … Aspires to play NCAA Division 1 and then play professional basketball … Won Mississauga Monarchs tournament with the Brampton Warriors in 2012 … Favourite player is Andrew Bynum because of the way he uses his size … Most memorable basketball moment is the first time he won a tournament MVP award … Won MVP of Brampton Centennial Secondary School tournament … Started playing basketball in grade 3.

Position: Forward

TAMIR FORDE

Age: 14Height: 5-10Hometown: WhitbySchool: Sinclair Secondary SchoolClub: Vaughan Panthers

Forde is a first-time member of Team Ontario … Twice made it to the OFSAA Finals … Won a gold medal in 2012 with the Vaughan Panthers… Aspires to play NCAA and NBA basketball … Favourite basketball player is LeBron James … Started playing basketball at the age of two, wanted to stick with it when he saw Vince Carter play.

Position: Guard


NAHSHON HURST

Age: 15Height: 6-3Hometown: MarkhamSchool: Bill Crothers Secondary SchoolClub: MUMBA

Hurst won back-to-back MVP awards with his club team … Aspires to play NCAA basketball and then play professionally in the NBA or elsewhere … Has won provincial bronze medals … Played AAAA OFSAA with Bill Crothers S.S. … Named to the honour roll in elementary school … Favourite player is Kevin Durant … Started playing basketball at the age of six.

Position: Guard-ForwardJEVON JEREMIAH

Age: 15Height: 5-11Hometown: TorontoSchool: Bloor CollegiateClub: Toronto Triple Threat

Jeremiah’s most memorable basketball moment is making the U15 Development Team … He aspires to play Division 1 NCAA basketball … Received an MVP and Rookie of the Year award in the same year … Finished fourth in the province with Toronto Triple Threat … Favourite player is LeBron James because Jeremiah feels he can do everything … Started playing basketball in grade 3.

Position: Guard

CAMERON RAMAGE

Age: 13Height: 5-11Hometown: AjaxSchool: St. Dominic SavioClub: Grassroots

Ramage is playing on Team Ontario for the first time this summer … Has played for the Scarborough Blues, Advantage Titans, East Side Warriors and Grassroots … Named MVP twice while playing for St. Dominic Savio … Named MVP with Scarborough Blues and Advantage Titans … Sister, Dakota Whyte, has played for Team Canada and Team Ontario … Favourite player is Kobe Bryant because “his passion is ridiculous” … Wants to study business in university and become a professional basketball player … Started playing basketball at three years old.

Position: GuardHARRY RANGE

Age: 14Height: 6-0Hometown: KanataSchool: All Saints C.H.S.Club: Ottawa Next Level

Range aspires to play NCAA basketball and then professional basketball … Favourite basketball player is Chris Paul because of his court vision … Played in the 2011 National Capital All-Star Classic … Won an athlete of the year award … Made the honour roll with a 94 per cent average … Started playing basketball in grade 3.



GRANT AUDU

Age: 14Height: 6-2Hometown: MississaugaHigh School: Father Henry CarrClub: CIA Bounce

Audu has been playing basketball since the age of three and stuck with it because of his older brother … His favourite player is Kevin Durant because he can score in a variety of ways … He aspires to play professional basketball, be it in the NBA or somewhere else … He has won a Bounce tournament, traveled to Michigan for a tournament and received an MVP award.

Position: ForwardROMMELL CALURA

Age: 15Height: 6-0Hometown: HamiltonSchool: St. Jean de BrebeufClub: Blessed Sacrament

Calura won back-to-back Division 1 OBA championships with Blessed Sacrament … Tournament all-star at the Blue and Gold Invitational junior basketball tournament at Notre Dame College in 2011 … MVP of the Bantam division at 2011 NABA Intercity Basketball Tournament … Aspires to play basketball at the university level … Favourite NBA player is Kevin Durant.

Position: Guard

BAKHSHISH (BOBBY) DHALIWAL

Age: 13Height: 6-6Hometown: BramptonSchool: Turner Fenton S.S.Club: Brampton Warriors

Dhaliwal is a first time member of Team Ontario … Aspires to play NCAA Division 1 and then play professional basketball … Won Mississauga Monarchs tournament with the Brampton Warriors in 2012 … Favourite player is Andrew Bynum because of the way he uses his size … Most memorable basketball moment is the first time he won a tournament MVP award … Won MVP of Brampton Centennial Secondary School tournament … Started playing basketball in grade 3.

Position: Forward

TAMIR FORDE

Age: 14Height: 5-10Hometown: WhitbySchool: Sinclair Secondary SchoolClub: Vaughan Panthers

Forde is a first-time member of Team Ontario … Twice made it to the OFSAA Finals … Won a gold medal in 2012 with the Vaughan Panthers… Aspires to play NCAA and NBA basketball … Favourite basketball player is LeBron James … Started playing basketball at the age of two, wanted to stick with it when he saw Vince Carter play.

Position: Guard


NAHSHON HURST

Age: 15Height: 6-3Hometown: MarkhamSchool: Bill Crothers Secondary SchoolClub: MUMBA

Hurst won back-to-back MVP awards with his club team … Aspires to play NCAA basketball and then play professionally in the NBA or elsewhere … Has won provincial bronze medals … Played AAAA OFSAA with Bill Crothers S.S. … Named to the honour roll in elementary school … Favourite player is Kevin Durant … Started playing basketball at the age of six.

Position: Guard-ForwardJEVON JEREMIAH

Age: 15Height: 5-11Hometown: TorontoSchool: Bloor CollegiateClub: Toronto Triple Threat

Jeremiah’s most memorable basketball moment is making the U15 Development Team … He aspires to play Division 1 NCAA basketball … Received an MVP and Rookie of the Year award in the same year … Finished fourth in the province with Toronto Triple Threat … Favourite player is LeBron James because Jeremiah feels he can do everything … Started playing basketball in grade 3.

Position: Guard

CAMERON RAMAGE

Age: 13Height: 5-11Hometown: AjaxSchool: St. Dominic SavioClub: Grassroots

Ramage is playing on Team Ontario for the first time this summer … Has played for the Scarborough Blues, Advantage Titans, East Side Warriors and Grassroots … Named MVP twice while playing for St. Dominic Savio … Named MVP with Scarborough Blues and Advantage Titans … Sister, Dakota Whyte, has played for Team Canada and Team Ontario … Favourite player is Kobe Bryant because “his passion is ridiculous” … Wants to study business in university and become a professional basketball player … Started playing basketball at three years old.

Position: GuardHARRY RANGE

Age: 14Height: 6-0Hometown: KanataSchool: All Saints C.H.S.Club: Ottawa Next Level

Range aspires to play NCAA basketball and then professional basketball … Favourite basketball player is Chris Paul because of his court vision … Played in the 2011 National Capital All-Star Classic … Won an athlete of the year award … Made the honour roll with a 94 per cent average … Started playing basketball in grade 3.



JORDAN SOBOT

Age: 14Height: 6-0Hometown: BurlingtonSchool: Nelson High SchoolClub: IBSA Academy

Sobot’s most memorable basketball moment is when he hit the buzzer-beater that won the OBA Division 2 championship for the Hamilton Wildcats in 2011 … He aspires to get a scholarship for playing basketball … Has won a

hustle award … Won the Halton Championship with the John T. Tuck Cougars in 2011 … Won an NBA 3-on-3 competition in London in 2007.


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DONTAE THOMPSON

Age: 15Height: 5-11Hometown: BramptonSchool: St. Augustine Secondary SchoolClub: Hamilton Warriors

Thompson fondly remembers scoring 27 points at a tournament in Chicago … His favourite player is Derrick Rose because he takes the game seriously and works hard … Won Athlete of the Year at his school in grade 8.

Position: Guard

DARIUS THORNE

Age: 14Height: 6-2Hometown: TorontoSchool: Vaughan Road AcademyClub: Grassroots

Thorne is a first time member of Team Ontario … He won MVP at a Durham City Basketball Association tournament … His most memorable basketball moment is when he dunked for the first time … Aspires to play Division 1 basketball for Duke or Kentucky … Favourite player is Kevin Durant because he is clutch.

Position: Guard/ForwardWILLIAM TRAN

Age: 14Height: 6-2Hometown: MarkhamSchool: Richmond Green Secondary SchoolClub: Vaughan Panthers

Tran captured two consecutive OBA championships with the Vaughan Panthers … He aspires to play professional basketball … Most memorable basketball moment is making Team Ontario … Started playing in grade 2 … Favourite basketball player is Kevin Durant … Honour roll student.

Position: Guard


CHRIS CHENGHEAD COACH

Cheng won a gold medal at Nationals as the head coach of U17 Team Ontario in 2011 and won a silver medal in 2010 … As assistant coach of U17 Team Ontario, he won bronze medals at the

Nationals in 2008 and the Canada Summer Games in 2009 … NCCP Level 3 certified coach and learning facilitator … 2011 OBA Elite Male Coach of the Year … A coach at the Centre For Performance for the past five years … Assistant coach of York University’s men’s basketball team … Won two provincial championships and made two quarter-final appearances at the National Championships as an assistant coach on the Humber College men’s varsity team from 2004-2008 … Head coach of Humber’s junior varsity team for two seasons, winning seven league tournaments and finishing with a record of 60-5.

Kemar Alleyne, Connor Gilmore, Marcus Lewis, Chris McComber, and Mackenzie Morrison just want to do it again. They were on the U17 Team Ontario Boys squad that won gold at Humber College in Toronto in 2011. They remember former Team Ontario player and current San Antonio Spur draftee Cory Joseph talking to them before they beat Nova Scotia in the Finals. That win avenged their loss in the 2010 gold medal game against Quebec.

This summer in Sherbrooke, Quebec, they’ll be joined by numerous players who won gold with the U15 boys last summer, including First-Team All-Stars Devonte Campbell and Brody Clarke. Five of the boys — Oakville’s Jake Babic and Anthony Pate, Toronto’s Malcolm Duvivier and Tyrell Green and Nepean’s McComber — will be coming off a taste of competition on the international stage. They were on Canada’s National Cadet Team this year, the group that competed at the FIBA U17 World Championship in Kaunas, Lithuania.

Head coach Chris Cheng and assistant coach Fatih Akser are back on the sideline for the third straight year, joined by Sherwyn Benn who returned after a couple of years away from the provincial stream. They all have the same goal in mind: sweep the tournament again.


JORDAN SOBOT

Age: 14Height: 6-0Hometown: BurlingtonSchool: Nelson High SchoolClub: IBSA Academy

Sobot’s most memorable basketball moment is when he hit the buzzer-beater that won the OBA Division 2 championship for the Hamilton Wildcats in 2011 … He aspires to get a scholarship for playing basketball … Has won a

hustle award … Won the Halton Championship with the John T. Tuck Cougars in 2011 … Won an NBA 3-on-3 competition in London in 2007.


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DONTAE THOMPSON

Age: 15Height: 5-11Hometown: BramptonSchool: St. Augustine Secondary SchoolClub: Hamilton Warriors

Thompson fondly remembers scoring 27 points at a tournament in Chicago … His favourite player is Derrick Rose because he takes the game seriously and works hard … Won Athlete of the Year at his school in grade 8.

Position: Guard

DARIUS THORNE

Age: 14Height: 6-2Hometown: TorontoSchool: Vaughan Road AcademyClub: Grassroots

Thorne is a first time member of Team Ontario … He won MVP at a Durham City Basketball Association tournament … His most memorable basketball moment is when he dunked for the first time … Aspires to play Division 1 basketball for Duke or Kentucky … Favourite player is Kevin Durant because he is clutch.

Position: Guard/ForwardWILLIAM TRAN

Age: 14Height: 6-2Hometown: MarkhamSchool: Richmond Green Secondary SchoolClub: Vaughan Panthers

Tran captured two consecutive OBA championships with the Vaughan Panthers … He aspires to play professional basketball … Most memorable basketball moment is making Team Ontario … Started playing in grade 2 … Favourite basketball player is Kevin Durant … Honour roll student.

Position: Guard


CHRIS CHENGHEAD COACH

Cheng won a gold medal at Nationals as the head coach of U17 Team Ontario in 2011 and won a silver medal in 2010 … As assistant coach of U17 Team Ontario, he won bronze medals at the

Nationals in 2008 and the Canada Summer Games in 2009 … NCCP Level 3 certified coach and learning facilitator … 2011 OBA Elite Male Coach of the Year … A coach at the Centre For Performance for the past five years … Assistant coach of York University’s men’s basketball team … Won two provincial championships and made two quarter-final appearances at the National Championships as an assistant coach on the Humber College men’s varsity team from 2004-2008 … Head coach of Humber’s junior varsity team for two seasons, winning seven league tournaments and finishing with a record of 60-5.

Kemar Alleyne, Connor Gilmore, Marcus Lewis, Chris McComber, and Mackenzie Morrison just want to do it again. They were on the U17 Team Ontario Boys squad that won gold at Humber College in Toronto in 2011. They remember former Team Ontario player and current San Antonio Spur draftee Cory Joseph talking to them before they beat Nova Scotia in the Finals. That win avenged their loss in the 2010 gold medal game against Quebec.

This summer in Sherbrooke, Quebec, they’ll be joined by numerous players who won gold with the U15 boys last summer, including First-Team All-Stars Devonte Campbell and Brody Clarke. Five of the boys — Oakville’s Jake Babic and Anthony Pate, Toronto’s Malcolm Duvivier and Tyrell Green and Nepean’s McComber — will be coming off a taste of competition on the international stage. They were on Canada’s National Cadet Team this year, the group that competed at the FIBA U17 World Championship in Kaunas, Lithuania.

Head coach Chris Cheng and assistant coach Fatih Akser are back on the sideline for the third straight year, joined by Sherwyn Benn who returned after a couple of years away from the provincial stream. They all have the same goal in mind: sweep the tournament again.


FATIH AKSERASSISTANT COACH

Akser is entering his third year with U17 Team Ontario as an assistant coach, having won a gold medal at Nationals in 2011 … Certified NCCP Level 4 and currently finishing his NCCP Level 5 certification training

… Head coach of Ontario Basketball’s Centre for Performance in Toronto and Canada Basketball’s Targeted Athlete Strategy (TAS) youth development program … Since 2010, worked with the coaching staff of the Canadian Senior Men’s National Team as a video coordinator … Worked at the 2010 Junior Men’s World Cup America Qualifiers for the Junior Men’s National Team, winning a bronze medal … Represented Canada at the 2010 Senior Men's World Championship and the Olympic qualifiers … Has served as an assistant coach at Ryerson University for the past three years.

SHERWYN BENNASSISTANT COACH

Benn last was in Ontario Basketball’s provincial coaching stream as an assistant coach with the U15 boys program in 2008-2009 … Head coach for the Senator O’Connor senior boys team in Toronto …

Coached at all levels within Ontario Basketball’s Elite Development Programs … Has been an assistant coach at the University of Toronto, Humber College and George Brown College as well as having OCAA and CIS coaching experience.

KEMAR ALLEYNE

Age: 17Height: 6-2Hometown: ScarboroughSchool: Pope John Paul II C.S.S.Club: Scarborough Blues, CIA Bounce

Alleyne won gold medals with U15 Team Ontario in 2010 and U17 Team Ontario in 2011 … Co-captain and Second Team All-Star with with U15 Team Ontario in 2010 … Invited to try out for National Cadet Team in 2011 … Won four Division 1 gold medals in his OBA career, with two undefeated seasons … Went 41-2 with Pope John Paul II in grade 10 … Winner of various MVP awards including the 2010 Double Blue Tip-Off tournament … Wants to get a college education at a Division 1 school then play in the NBA … Favourite player is Kobe Bryant because of his footwork, jump shot and mentality … Honour roll student in grade 9.

Position: GuardJAKE BABICPosition: GuardAge: 17Height: 6-5Hometown: OakvilleSchool: Ignatius of LoyolaClub: Oakville Vytis

Babic is a first-time member of Team Ontario … Also a member of Canada’s National Cadet Team … Competed at U17 World Championships in Lithuania … Scored 27 points in the final game at the 2012 Silver Fox Tournament to give Loyola its second straight tournament win … Won a gold medal for the Central West Region at the Ontario Games in 2010 … Played in 2012 Hamilton Spectator Classic All-Star Game … Made it to the OFSAA final with Loyola in 2011.

2012 Boys U17 Teamathletes


RUSSELL BAKER

Age: 16Height: 6-0Hometown: TorontoSchool: OakwoodClub: Toronto Triple Threat

Baker ... A returning member of Team

Ontario, having won gold with the U15 team last summer … His career highlights so far have been that gold medal win and a silver medal with Toronto Triple Threat in 2011 … Made 2012 Pitt Jam Fest All-Tournament Team … Aspires to make it to the NBA … Favourite basketball player is Dwyane Wade … Started playing basketball just four years ago with his brother … Received English award at school.

Position: Guard

captured a gold medal in Division 1 at Ontario Cup in 2012

DEVONTE CAMPBELL

Age: 16Height: 6-5Hometown: MarkhamSchool: Villanova CollegeClub: St. David’s

Campbell is a returning member of Team Ontario, as he won a gold medal with the U15 team in 2011 … First-team all-star at the Nationals last summer … Made the 2012 Cadet National Team training camp roster … Played at Ryerson’s Battle of the Boards all-star game in 2012 …Favourite player is Dwyane Wade because of the way he creates for himself and gets to the basketball … Aims to play Division 1 NCAA basketball and then play in the NBA … Started playing basketball at the age of nine.

Position: Forward

BRODY CLARKEPosition: ForwardAge: 16Height: 6-6Hometown: TorontoSchool: OakwoodClub: Toronto Triple Threat

Clarke captured a gold medal in Division 1 at Ontario Cup in 2012 ... A returning member of Team Ontario, having won a gold medal in Toronto with the U15 boys last year … Most memorable basketball moment is winning a bronze medal last summer as a member of the U16 Canadian National Cadet Team at the FIBA Americas … Won a silver medal in 2011 with Toronto Triple Threat at the U15 Ontario Cup … OBA Hall of Fame father, Norm, played on the 1988 Canadian National team and coaches him at Oakwood and Toronto Triple Threat … Aspires to play NCAA Division 1 basketball and then play professionally.

MALCOLM DUVIVIER

Age: 17Height: 6-1Hometown: TorontoSchool: St. Michael’sClub: CIA Bounce

Duvivier won a bronze medal with the Canadian National Cadet Team at the 2011 FIBA Americas Tournament … Competed for Canada at the U17 FIBA World Championships in Lithuania … Won gold with U15 Team Ontario at the 2010 National Championships in Winnipeg and was named a First-Team All-Star … Scored 36 points against Pine Ridge and lead his team to the finals of the 2012 St. Michael’s Tournament … Scored 27 in the championship game at the 2012 Ontario Catholic Classic and was named to tournament All-Star Team.

Position: Guard


FATIH AKSERASSISTANT COACH

Akser is entering his third year with U17 Team Ontario as an assistant coach, having won a gold medal at Nationals in 2011 … Certified NCCP Level 4 and currently finishing his NCCP Level 5 certification training

… Head coach of Ontario Basketball’s Centre for Performance in Toronto and Canada Basketball’s Targeted Athlete Strategy (TAS) youth development program … Since 2010, worked with the coaching staff of the Canadian Senior Men’s National Team as a video coordinator … Worked at the 2010 Junior Men’s World Cup America Qualifiers for the Junior Men’s National Team, winning a bronze medal … Represented Canada at the 2010 Senior Men's World Championship and the Olympic qualifiers … Has served as an assistant coach at Ryerson University for the past three years.

SHERWYN BENNASSISTANT COACH

Benn last was in Ontario Basketball’s provincial coaching stream as an assistant coach with the U15 boys program in 2008-2009 … Head coach for the Senator O’Connor senior boys team in Toronto …

Coached at all levels within Ontario Basketball’s Elite Development Programs … Has been an assistant coach at the University of Toronto, Humber College and George Brown College as well as having OCAA and CIS coaching experience.

KEMAR ALLEYNE

Age: 17Height: 6-2Hometown: ScarboroughSchool: Pope John Paul II C.S.S.Club: Scarborough Blues, CIA Bounce

Alleyne won gold medals with U15 Team Ontario in 2010 and U17 Team Ontario in 2011 … Co-captain and Second Team All-Star with with U15 Team Ontario in 2010 … Invited to try out for National Cadet Team in 2011 … Won four Division 1 gold medals in his OBA career, with two undefeated seasons … Went 41-2 with Pope John Paul II in grade 10 … Winner of various MVP awards including the 2010 Double Blue Tip-Off tournament … Wants to get a college education at a Division 1 school then play in the NBA … Favourite player is Kobe Bryant because of his footwork, jump shot and mentality … Honour roll student in grade 9.

Position: GuardJAKE BABICPosition: GuardAge: 17Height: 6-5Hometown: OakvilleSchool: Ignatius of LoyolaClub: Oakville Vytis

Babic is a first-time member of Team Ontario … Also a member of Canada’s National Cadet Team … Competed at U17 World Championships in Lithuania … Scored 27 points in the final game at the 2012 Silver Fox Tournament to give Loyola its second straight tournament win … Won a gold medal for the Central West Region at the Ontario Games in 2010 … Played in 2012 Hamilton Spectator Classic All-Star Game … Made it to the OFSAA final with Loyola in 2011.



RUSSELL BAKER


Baker ... A returning member of Team

Ontario, having won gold with the U15 team last summer … His career highlights so far have been that gold medal win and a silver medal with Toronto Triple Threat in 2011 … Made 2012 Pitt Jam Fest All-Tournament Team … Aspires to make it to the NBA … Favourite basketball player is Dwyane Wade … Started playing basketball just four years ago with his brother … Received English award at school.

Position: Guard

captured a gold medal in Division 1 at Ontario Cup in 2012

DEVONTE CAMPBELL

Age: 16Height: 6-5Hometown: MarkhamSchool: Villanova CollegeClub: St. David’s

Campbell is a returning member of Team Ontario, as he won a gold medal with the U15 team in 2011 … First-team all-star at the Nationals last summer … Made the 2012 Cadet National Team training camp roster … Played at Ryerson’s Battle of the Boards all-star game in 2012 …Favourite player is Dwyane Wade because of the way he creates for himself and gets to the basketball … Aims to play Division 1 NCAA basketball and then play in the NBA … Started playing basketball at the age of nine.

Position: Forward

BRODY CLARKEPosition: ForwardAge: 16Height: 6-6Hometown: TorontoSchool: OakwoodClub: Toronto Triple Threat

Clarke captured a gold medal in Division 1 at Ontario Cup in 2012 ... A returning member of Team Ontario, having won a gold medal in Toronto with the U15 boys last year … Most memorable basketball moment is winning a bronze medal last summer as a member of the U16 Canadian National Cadet Team at the FIBA Americas … Won a silver medal in 2011 with Toronto Triple Threat at the U15 Ontario Cup … OBA Hall of Fame father, Norm, played on the 1988 Canadian National team and coaches him at Oakwood and Toronto Triple Threat … Aspires to play NCAA Division 1 basketball and then play professionally.

MALCOLM DUVIVIER

Age: 17Height: 6-1Hometown: TorontoSchool: St. Michael’sClub: CIA Bounce

Duvivier won a bronze medal with the Canadian National Cadet Team at the 2011 FIBA Americas Tournament … Competed for Canada at the U17 FIBA World Championships in Lithuania … Won gold with U15 Team Ontario at the 2010 National Championships in Winnipeg and was named a First-Team All-Star … Scored 36 points against Pine Ridge and lead his team to the finals of the 2012 St. Michael’s Tournament … Scored 27 in the championship game at the 2012 Ontario Catholic Classic and was named to tournament All-Star Team.

Position: Guard


CALVIN EPISTOLA


Epistola is a first-time member of Team Ontario … He led his Toronto Triple Threat team to a U16 Ontario Cup Division 1 gold medal with 23 points against the Brampton Warriors in the 2012 championship game … Won a silver medal in U15 Ontario Cup Division 1 with Toronto Triple Threat … Named to 2012 St. Michael’s tournament all-star team … Played AAAA OFSAA in grade 9 … Favourite basketball player is Kyrie Irving because he is smooth and confident … Started playing basketball at the age of five.

Position: GuardJAMAR ERGAS

Age: 16Height: 6-3Hometown: ScarboroughSchool: Montverde Academy (Florida)Club: Grassroots

Ergas was named to 2012 Cadet Men’s National Team training camp roster … Won 2012 Phase 1 Rising Star Award … Co-MVP of the Under Armour I-95 Challenge All-Star Game … Won the dunk contest at the 2010 Canadian Flight Games … Had 38 points and 10 dunks in one game at the 2011 Pitt Jam Fest … Has a 39-inch vertical leap … Attended John Lucas International Camp … Favourite player is LeBron James … Started playing basketball at five years old.

Position: Guard

CONNOR GILMORE

Age: 17Height: 6-7Hometown: EtobicokeHigh School: Martingrove CIClub: Northern Kings, Etobicoke Thunder Elite

Gilmore is a returning member of Team Ontario, having won gold medals with the U15 team in 2010 and the U17 team last summer … Made the Cadet National Team Training Camp roster … Played in Ryerson University’s Battle of the Boards in 2011 and 2012 … Named an All-Star in various tournaments, including the 2011 Rimrocker tournament where he scored 19 points in the championship game to lead his team to victory … Won a bronze medal in AAA OFSAA with Martingrove C.I. … Aspires to be a professional basketball player or a construction manager … Always wears two pairs of socks when playing … Favourite basketball player is Dirk Nowitzki.

Position: ForwardTYRELL BELLOT-GREEN Position: GuardAge: 17Height: 6-6Hometown: TorontoSchool: OakwoodClub: CIA Bounce

Bellot-Green won a bronze medal at the U16 FIBA Americas in Mexico in 2011 … Competed at the 2012 Fiba U17 World Championships in Lithuania with Canada’s National Cadet Team … Named MVP of 2010 Nationals when he led U15 Team Ontario to a gold medal … All-Star at 2011 Humber Classic … Son of streetball legend Shawn ‘Biggs’ Green.


COREY JOHNSON Position: GuardAge: 16Height: 6-1Hometown: OttawaSchool: West Carleton SecondaryClub: Goulbourn Hornets

Johnson was i returning member of Team

Ontario, as he won gold with the U15 Boys one year ago in Toronto … Most memorable basketball moment aside from the gold medal was when he scored 44 points in a quarter-final game against West Carleton … … Played in National Capital All-Star Classic in 2011 … Aspires to play professional basketball … Favourite players are Kevin Durant and Derrick Rose … Started playing basketball at the age of three.

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MARCUS LEWIS

Age: 17Height: 6-4Hometown: BramptonSchool: Central Peel SecondaryClub: Brampton Warriors

Lewis is a two-time member of Team Ontario, as he brought home a gold medal last year with the U17 team … Captured U17 and U16 Division 1 OBA championships with the Brampton Warriors … Aspires to play Division 1 NCAA basketball and then play in the NBA … Favourite player is LeBron James because of how hard he plays at both ends… Started playing basketball at the age of eight but only started playing competitively in grade 6.

Position: Forward

CHRIS MCCOMBERPosition: ForwardAge: 17Height: 6-5Hometown: NepeanSchool: John McCrae Secondary SchoolClub: Ottawa Next Level

McComber competed o

s a three-time member of Team Ontario, winning gold medals in 2010 with the U15 Team in Winnipeg and in 2011 with the U17 squad in Toronto … Captured bronze with the Canadian National Cadet Team at the FIBA Americas in 2011 ... Played in 2009 National Capital All-Star Classic … Favourite NBA player is Deron Williams … Honour roll student … Played hockey and lacrosse when he was younger, seriously took up basketball in grade 5.

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JUWAN MILLER

Age: 17Height: 5-11Hometown: KitchenerSchool: Huron Heights SecondaryClub: Waterloo Wildhawks

Miller is a first-time member of Team Ontario … Won WCSSAA championship in 2012 with his school … Won various MVP, defensive player awards and been named to tournament all-star teams … Favourite player is Rudy Gay because he is versatile and underrated … Wants to play in the NBA or be a computer engineer … Started playing basketball at the age of six.

Position: Guard


CALVIN EPISTOLA


Epistola is a first-time member of Team Ontario … He led his Toronto Triple Threat team to a U16 Ontario Cup Division 1 gold medal with 23 points against the Brampton Warriors in the 2012 championship game … Won a silver medal in U15 Ontario Cup Division 1 with Toronto Triple Threat … Named to 2012 St. Michael’s tournament all-star team … Played AAAA OFSAA in grade 9 … Favourite basketball player is Kyrie Irving because he is smooth and confident … Started playing basketball at the age of five.

Position: GuardJAMAR ERGAS

Age: 16Height: 6-3Hometown: ScarboroughSchool: Montverde Academy (Florida)Club: Grassroots

Ergas was named to 2012 Cadet Men’s National Team training camp roster … Won 2012 Phase 1 Rising Star Award … Co-MVP of the Under Armour I-95 Challenge All-Star Game … Won the dunk contest at the 2010 Canadian Flight Games … Had 38 points and 10 dunks in one game at the 2011 Pitt Jam Fest … Has a 39-inch vertical leap … Attended John Lucas International Camp … Favourite player is LeBron James … Started playing basketball at five years old.

Position: Guard

CONNOR GILMORE

Age: 17Height: 6-7Hometown: EtobicokeHigh School: Martingrove CIClub: Northern Kings, Etobicoke Thunder Elite

Gilmore is a returning member of Team Ontario, having won gold medals with the U15 team in 2010 and the U17 team last summer … Made the Cadet National Team Training Camp roster … Played in Ryerson University’s Battle of the Boards in 2011 and 2012 … Named an All-Star in various tournaments, including the 2011 Rimrocker tournament where he scored 19 points in the championship game to lead his team to victory … Won a bronze medal in AAA OFSAA with Martingrove C.I. … Aspires to be a professional basketball player or a construction manager … Always wears two pairs of socks when playing … Favourite basketball player is Dirk Nowitzki.

Position: ForwardTYRELL BELLOT-GREEN Position: GuardAge: 17Height: 6-6Hometown: TorontoSchool: OakwoodClub: CIA Bounce

Bellot-Green won a bronze medal at the U16 FIBA Americas in Mexico in 2011 … Competed at the 2012 Fiba U17 World Championships in Lithuania with Canada’s National Cadet Team … Named MVP of 2010 Nationals when he led U15 Team Ontario to a gold medal … All-Star at 2011 Humber Classic … Son of streetball legend Shawn ‘Biggs’ Green.


COREY JOHNSON Position: GuardAge: 16Height: 6-1Hometown: OttawaSchool: West Carleton SecondaryClub: Goulbourn Hornets

Johnson was i returning member of Team

Ontario, as he won gold with the U15 Boys one year ago in Toronto … Most memorable basketball moment aside from the gold medal was when he scored 44 points in a quarter-final game against West Carleton … … Played in National Capital All-Star Classic in 2011 … Aspires to play professional basketball … Favourite players are Kevin Durant and Derrick Rose … Started playing basketball at the age of three.

nvited to try out for the National Cadet Team in 2012 ... A

MARCUS LEWIS

Age: 17Height: 6-4Hometown: BramptonSchool: Central Peel SecondaryClub: Brampton Warriors

Lewis is a two-time member of Team Ontario, as he brought home a gold medal last year with the U17 team … Captured U17 and U16 Division 1 OBA championships with the Brampton Warriors … Aspires to play Division 1 NCAA basketball and then play in the NBA … Favourite player is LeBron James because of how hard he plays at both ends… Started playing basketball at the age of eight but only started playing competitively in grade 6.

Position: Forward

CHRIS MCCOMBERPosition: ForwardAge: 17Height: 6-5Hometown: NepeanSchool: John McCrae Secondary SchoolClub: Ottawa Next Level

McComber competed o

s a three-time member of Team Ontario, winning gold medals in 2010 with the U15 Team in Winnipeg and in 2011 with the U17 squad in Toronto … Captured bronze with the Canadian National Cadet Team at the FIBA Americas in 2011 ... Played in 2009 National Capital All-Star Classic … Favourite NBA player is Deron Williams … Honour roll student … Played hockey and lacrosse when he was younger, seriously took up basketball in grade 5.

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JUWAN MILLER

Age: 17Height: 5-11Hometown: KitchenerSchool: Huron Heights SecondaryClub: Waterloo Wildhawks

Miller is a first-time member of Team Ontario … Won WCSSAA championship in 2012 with his school … Won various MVP, defensive player awards and been named to tournament all-star teams … Favourite player is Rudy Gay because he is versatile and underrated … Wants to play in the NBA or be a computer engineer … Started playing basketball at the age of six.

Position: Guard


MACKENZIE MORRISON

Age: 17Height: 6-6Hometown: BarrieSchool: Barrie CentralClub: CIA Bounce

Morrison is a returning member of Team Ontario; having won a gold medal with the U17 team in 2011 … Scored 50 points in the GBSSA Finals game … Won an AAU championship with CIA Bounce … He aspires to get a degree in general engineering … Favourite player is LeBron James because of his work ethic and competitive spirit … Won an MVP award in grade 10 … Won a Rookie of the Year award in grade 11 … Started playing basketball in grade 4 … Honour student.

Position: ForwardOBI OKOLIE

Age: 16Height: 6-3Hometown: AjaxSchool: Denis O’ConnorClub: St. David’s Blues

Okolie was an alternate on 2011 U15 Team Ontario … Won a bronze medal at the 2011 Division 1 OBA’s … Won MVP for the junior boys basketball team with Denis O’Connor …Aspires to play basketball at a Division 1 or Ivy League school … Most memorable basketball moment is scoring 45 points against Christian College in high school … Favourite player is Deron Williams … Honour roll student … Started playing basketball at four years old.

Position: Guard

ANTHONY PATE

Age: 17Height: 6-3Hometown: OakvilleSchool: Long Island Lutheran (New York)Club: Grassroots Canada

Pate competed at

a bronze medal for the Canadian Cadet National Team at the FIBA Americas in 2011 … Hit a last-second three to give his Long Island Lutheran team a one-point victory in the New York State Federation Class A championship game in March … Won a gold medal at the Ontario Games in 2010 … Took Holy Trinity to AAAA OFSAA in grade 10 … Aspires to earn a scholarship to play Division 1 NCAA basketball, then play in the NBA or become an English teacher.

Position: Guard

the U17 World Championships in Lithuania with the Canadian Cadet National Team ... Captured

CASSIDY RYAN

Age: 17Height: 6-6Hometown: MississaugaSchool: La Lumiere (Indiana)Club: CIA Bounce

Ryan was is a returning member of Team

Ontario, having won gold at the Nationals in Winnipeg with the U15 team in 2010 … Won Mr. Peel Basketball award in 2011 … Went undefeated with Our Lady of Mount Carmel in 2011, winning ROPSSAA and playing at AAAA OFSAA … Scored a game-high 25 points in the 2011 ROPSSAA Top 20 game … Favourite player is Kobe Bryant … Honour roll student … Would love to become a teacher … Started playing basketball at the age of 12.

Position: Forward

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2011 Boys Teamresults

U15 Boys

Game 1: August 1, 2011Final Score: Ontario 83, Manitoba 49

Player of the game: Devonte Campbell (14 points, 13 rebounds)Leading scorer: Jalen Poyser, 15Leading rebounder: Devonte Campbell, 13

Game 2: August 2, 2011Final Score: Ontario 72, British Columbia 41

Player of the game: Brody Clarke (13 points, 7 rebounds, 3 steals)Leading scorer: Brody Clarke, 13Leading rebounder: Devonte Campbell, 8

Game 3: August 4, 2011Final Score: Ontario 99, Nova Scotia 51

Player of the game: Jalen Poyser (14 points, 6 rebounds, 2 steals)Leading scorer: Jalen Poyser, 14Leading rebounder: Brody Clarke, 11

Game 4: August 5, 2011 (Semi-Finals)Final Score: Ontario 77, Quebec 52

Player of the game: Chris Egi (14 points, 4 blocks)Leading scorer: Chris Egi, 14Leading rebounder: Devonte Campbell, 7

Game 5: August 6, 2011 (Finals)Final Score: Ontario 71, British Columbia 44

Leading scorer: Chris Egi, 15Leading rebounder: Nolan Narrain, 9

Tournament MVP: Chris Egi

First Team All-Stars: Devonte Campbell, Brody Clarke

U17 Boys

Game 1: August 2, 2011Final score: Ontario 88, Newfoundland 52

Player of the game: Duane Notice (22 points, 6 steals)Leading scorer: Duane Notice, 22Leading rebounder: Kaza Keane, 8

Game 2: August 3, 2011Final score: Ontario 96, Alberta 56

Player of the game: Marko Pirovic (15 points, 10 rebounds, 6-for-7 FG)Leading scorer: Duane Notice, 19Leading rebounder: Marko Pirovic, 10

Game 3: August 4, 2011Final score: Ontario 95, Saskatchewan 46

Player of the game: Henry Tan (19 points, 4 steals)Leading scorer: Henry Tan, 19Leading rebounder: Kemar Alleyne, 5

Game 4: August 5, 2011 (Semi-Finals)Final score: Ontario 89, British Columbia 44

Player of the game: Agunwa Okolie Leading scorer: Duane Notice, 19Leading rebounder: Marko Pirovic, 11

Game 5: August 6, 2011 (Finals)Final score: Ontario 82, Nova Scotia 68

Leading scorer: Agunwa Okolie, 17Leading rebounder: Marko Pirovic, 25

Tournament MVP: Duane Notice

First-Team All-Stars: Kaza Keane, Marko Pirovic

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MACKENZIE MORRISON

Age: 17Height: 6-6Hometown: BarrieSchool: Barrie CentralClub: CIA Bounce

Morrison is a returning member of Team Ontario; having won a gold medal with the U17 team in 2011 … Scored 50 points in the GBSSA Finals game … Won an AAU championship with CIA Bounce … He aspires to get a degree in general engineering … Favourite player is LeBron James because of his work ethic and competitive spirit … Won an MVP award in grade 10 … Won a Rookie of the Year award in grade 11 … Started playing basketball in grade 4 … Honour student.

Position: ForwardOBI OKOLIE

Age: 16Height: 6-3Hometown: AjaxSchool: Denis O’ConnorClub: St. David’s Blues

Okolie was an alternate on 2011 U15 Team Ontario … Won a bronze medal at the 2011 Division 1 OBA’s … Won MVP for the junior boys basketball team with Denis O’Connor …Aspires to play basketball at a Division 1 or Ivy League school … Most memorable basketball moment is scoring 45 points against Christian College in high school … Favourite player is Deron Williams … Honour roll student … Started playing basketball at four years old.

Position: Guard

ANTHONY PATE

Age: 17Height: 6-3Hometown: OakvilleSchool: Long Island Lutheran (New York)Club: Grassroots Canada

Pate competed at

a bronze medal for the Canadian Cadet National Team at the FIBA Americas in 2011 … Hit a last-second three to give his Long Island Lutheran team a one-point victory in the New York State Federation Class A championship game in March … Won a gold medal at the Ontario Games in 2010 … Took Holy Trinity to AAAA OFSAA in grade 10 … Aspires to earn a scholarship to play Division 1 NCAA basketball, then play in the NBA or become an English teacher.

Position: Guard

the U17 World Championships in Lithuania with the Canadian Cadet National Team ... Captured

CASSIDY RYAN

Age: 17Height: 6-6Hometown: MississaugaSchool: La Lumiere (Indiana)Club: CIA Bounce

Ryan was is a returning member of Team

Ontario, having won gold at the Nationals in Winnipeg with the U15 team in 2010 … Won Mr. Peel Basketball award in 2011 … Went undefeated with Our Lady of Mount Carmel in 2011, winning ROPSSAA and playing at AAAA OFSAA … Scored a game-high 25 points in the 2011 ROPSSAA Top 20 game … Favourite player is Kobe Bryant … Honour roll student … Would love to become a teacher … Started playing basketball at the age of 12.

Position: Forward

nvited to try out for Cadet National Team in 2011 and 2012 …I

2011 Boys Teamresults

U15 Boys

Game 1: August 1, 2011Final Score: Ontario 83, Manitoba 49

Player of the game: Devonte Campbell (14 points, 13 rebounds)Leading scorer: Jalen Poyser, 15Leading rebounder: Devonte Campbell, 13

Game 2: August 2, 2011Final Score: Ontario 72, British Columbia 41

Player of the game: Brody Clarke (13 points, 7 rebounds, 3 steals)Leading scorer: Brody Clarke, 13Leading rebounder: Devonte Campbell, 8

Game 3: August 4, 2011Final Score: Ontario 99, Nova Scotia 51

Player of the game: Jalen Poyser (14 points, 6 rebounds, 2 steals)Leading scorer: Jalen Poyser, 14Leading rebounder: Brody Clarke, 11

Game 4: August 5, 2011 (Semi-Finals)Final Score: Ontario 77, Quebec 52

Player of the game: Chris Egi (14 points, 4 blocks)Leading scorer: Chris Egi, 14Leading rebounder: Devonte Campbell, 7

Game 5: August 6, 2011 (Finals)Final Score: Ontario 71, British Columbia 44

Leading scorer: Chris Egi, 15Leading rebounder: Nolan Narrain, 9

Tournament MVP: Chris Egi

First Team All-Stars: Devonte Campbell, Brody Clarke

U17 Boys

Game 1: August 2, 2011Final score: Ontario 88, Newfoundland 52

Player of the game: Duane Notice (22 points, 6 steals)Leading scorer: Duane Notice, 22Leading rebounder: Kaza Keane, 8


Player of the game: Marko Pirovic (15 points, 10 rebounds, 6-for-7 FG)Leading scorer: Duane Notice, 19Leading rebounder: Marko Pirovic, 10

Game 3: August 4, 2011Final score: Ontario 95, Saskatchewan 46

Player of the game: Henry Tan (19 points, 4 steals)Leading scorer: Henry Tan, 19Leading rebounder: Kemar Alleyne, 5


Player of the game: Agunwa Okolie Leading scorer: Duane Notice, 19Leading rebounder: Marko Pirovic, 11

Game 5: August 6, 2011 (Finals)Final score: Ontario 82, Nova Scotia 68

Leading scorer: Agunwa Okolie, 17Leading rebounder: Marko Pirovic, 25

Tournament MVP: Duane Notice

First-Team All-Stars: Kaza Keane, Marko Pirovic

CANADIAN BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIPSHUMBER COLLEGE - TORONTO, ON

2012 team ontario Boys road to gold

July 2-5: Georgian CollegeU15, U15 Development: Training Camp

July 3-9: Humber CollegeU17: Training Camp

July 10-14: Orlando, FloridaU15, U15 Development: Grade 10 Super Showcase at ESPN Wide World of Sports




July 26-28: University of TorontoU15, U15 Development: Training Camp

July 29: Humber CollegeU17: Training Camp

July 31-August 5: Sherbrooke, QuebecU15, U17: Canadian National Championships

2012 team ontario girls road to gold

June 30-July 5: University of Toronto/Bill Crothers S.S.U17: Training Camp


July 10-15: Chicago, IllinoisU15, U15 Development and U17: Nike Tournament of Champions

July 18-20: Bill Crothers S.S.U17: Training Camp

July 19-21: University of TorontoU15: Training Camp

July 21-24: Mount Pleasant, MichiganU15 Development: Classic in the North

July 21-25: Washington, D.C.U17: U.S. Junior Nationals


August 1-4: University of TorontoU17: Training Camp


August 6-11: Fredericton, New BrunswickU15, U17: Canadian National Championships

2012 team ontario Boys road to gold

July 2-5: Georgian CollegeU15, U15 Development: Training Camp







July 29: Humber CollegeU17: Training Camp

July 31-August 5: Sherbrooke, QuebecU15, U17: Canadian National Championships

2012 team ontario girls road to gold

June 30-July 5: University of Toronto/Bill Crothers S.S.U17: Training Camp


July 10-15: Chicago, IllinoisU15, U15 Development and U17: Nike Tournament of Champions

July 18-20: Bill Crothers S.S.U17: Training Camp

July 19-21: University of TorontoU15: Training Camp

July 21-24: Mount Pleasant, MichiganU15 Development: Classic in the North





August 6-11: Fredericton, New BrunswickU15, U17: Canadian National Championships

2011 girls Teamresults

U15 girls


Player of the game: Kia Nurse (19 points, 5 steals)Leading scorer: Kia Nurse, 19Leading rebounder: Caroline Hummell, 7

Game 2: August 2, 2011Final score: Ontario 75, British Columbia 55

Player of the game: Kia Nurse (20 points, 6 rebounds, 8 steals)Leading scorer: Kia Nurse, 20Leading rebounder: Mikalah Mulrain, 9

Game 3: August 3, 2011Final score: Ontario 75, Quebec 69

Leading scorer: Kia Nurse, 16Leading rebounder: Bridget Carleton, 10


Player of the game: Mikalah Mulrain (13 points, 9 rebounds, 2 steals)Leading scorer: Mikalah Mulrain, 13Leading rebounders: Mikalah Mulrain and Kia Nurse, 9

Game 5: August 6, 2011 (Finals)Final score: Ontario 76, Quebec 59

Player of the game: Mikalah Mulrain (17 points, 19 rebounds)Leading scorers: Mikalah Mulrain and Kia Nurse, 17Learing rebounder: Mikalah Mulrain, 19

Tournament MVP: Kia NurseFirst Team All-Star: Christina ButtenhamSecond Team All-Star: Mikalah Mulrain

U17 gIRLS

Game 1: August 1, 2011Final score: Ontario 103, Prince Edward Island 36

Player of the game: Danielle Boiago (16 points, 7-for-7 FG, 4 assists)Leading scorer: Danielle Boiago, 16Leading rebounders: Kaili Lukan and Cheyanne Roger, 7


Player of the game: Dakota Whyte (14 points, 6 rebounds, 2 steals)Leading scorer: Dakota Whyte, 14Leading rebounder: Abigail Fogg, 8

Game 3: August 4, 2011Final score: Ontario 86, Manitoba 44

Player of the game: Katie Polischuk (18 points, 4 rebounds)Leading scorers: Katie Polischuk and Dakota Whyte, 18Leading rebounder: Jenna Bugiardini, 7

Game 4: August 5, 2011 (Semi-Finals)Final score: Ontario 73, Quebec 42

Player of the game: Dakota Whyte (14 points, 6 rebounds, 3 steals)Leading scorers: Dakota Whyte and Katie Polischuk, 14Leading rebounder: Cheyanne Roger, 9

Game 5: August 6, 2011 (Finals)Final score: Ontario 80, British Columbia 41

Player of the game: Katie Polischuk (16 points, 6-for-10 FG)Leading scorer: Katie Polischuk, 16Leading rebounder: Taijah Campbell, 12

Tournament MVP: Dakota WhyteFirst Team All-Star: Katie Polischuk

CANADIAN BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIPSuniversity of manitoba - winnipeg, mb

2012 girls U15 Teamprofile

Having won each national championship since 2005, Team Ontario is riding a 40-game winning streak heading into Fredericton this summer. Last summer, they dominated the Nationals, beating Quebec 76-59 in the final game of a tournament that saw them without a lead at the end of a quarter just once.

This year in Fredericton, it will be about continuing that dominance with a mostly new cast of characters. Ten players from last year’s squad

to the U17 team. Returning are forward Bridget Carleton (Chatham) and guard Yasmyne Salhia-Bernales (Toronto). While the remaining members of Ontario don’t have experience at the Nationals, this team isn’t short on talent. This U15 team is loaded with players who have experience in the Ontario Cup and OFSAA, with most being very familiar with tournament MVP awards.

The coaching staff has seen some changes since the U15’s most recent gold medal, with Nate McKibbon taking over as head coach after winning gold as an assistant with the U17 team a year ago. With him are three assistants making their first appearances behind a

Team Ontario bench, but they all bring a wealth of knowledge and experience in coaching basketball in this province. With a quality training camp and AAU warm-up events, all are poised to keep the streak alive.

graduated

2011 girls Teamresults

U15 girls


Player of the game: Kia Nurse (19 points, 5 steals)Leading scorer: Kia Nurse, 19Leading rebounder: Caroline Hummell, 7

Game 2: August 2, 2011Final score: Ontario 75, British Columbia 55

Player of the game: Kia Nurse (20 points, 6 rebounds, 8 steals)Leading scorer: Kia Nurse, 20Leading rebounder: Mikalah Mulrain, 9

Game 3: August 3, 2011Final score: Ontario 75, Quebec 69

Leading scorer: Kia Nurse, 16Leading rebounder: Bridget Carleton, 10


Player of the game: Mikalah Mulrain (13 points, 9 rebounds, 2 steals)Leading scorer: Mikalah Mulrain, 13Leading rebounders: Mikalah Mulrain and Kia Nurse, 9

Game 5: August 6, 2011 (Finals)Final score: Ontario 76, Quebec 59

Player of the game: Mikalah Mulrain (17 points, 19 rebounds)Leading scorers: Mikalah Mulrain and Kia Nurse, 17Learing rebounder: Mikalah Mulrain, 19

Tournament MVP: Kia NurseFirst Team All-Star: Christina ButtenhamSecond Team All-Star: Mikalah Mulrain

U17 gIRLS

Game 1: August 1, 2011Final score: Ontario 103, Prince Edward Island 36

Player of the game: Danielle Boiago (16 points, 7-for-7 FG, 4 assists)Leading scorer: Danielle Boiago, 16Leading rebounders: Kaili Lukan and Cheyanne Roger, 7


Player of the game: Dakota Whyte (14 points, 6 rebounds, 2 steals)Leading scorer: Dakota Whyte, 14Leading rebounder: Abigail Fogg, 8

Game 3: August 4, 2011Final score: Ontario 86, Manitoba 44

Player of the game: Katie Polischuk (18 points, 4 rebounds)Leading scorers: Katie Polischuk and Dakota Whyte, 18Leading rebounder: Jenna Bugiardini, 7

Game 4: August 5, 2011 (Semi-Finals)Final score: Ontario 73, Quebec 42

Player of the game: Dakota Whyte (14 points, 6 rebounds, 3 steals)Leading scorers: Dakota Whyte and Katie Polischuk, 14Leading rebounder: Cheyanne Roger, 9

Game 5: August 6, 2011 (Finals)Final score: Ontario 80, British Columbia 41

Player of the game: Katie Polischuk (16 points, 6-for-10 FG)Leading scorer: Katie Polischuk, 16Leading rebounder: Taijah Campbell, 12

Tournament MVP: Dakota WhyteFirst Team All-Star: Katie Polischuk

CANADIAN BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIPSuniversity of manitoba - winnipeg, mb


Having won each national championship since 2005, Team Ontario is riding a 40-game winning streak heading into Fredericton this summer. Last summer, they dominated the Nationals, beating Quebec 76-59 in the final game of a tournament that saw them without a lead at the end of a quarter just once.

This year in Fredericton, it will be about continuing that dominance with a mostly new cast of characters. Ten players from last year’s squad

to the U17 team. Returning are forward Bridget Carleton (Chatham) and guard Yasmyne Salhia-Bernales (Toronto). While the remaining members of Ontario don’t have experience at the Nationals, this team isn’t short on talent. This U15 team is loaded with players who have experience in the Ontario Cup and OFSAA, with most being very familiar with tournament MVP awards.

The coaching staff has seen some changes since the U15’s most recent gold medal, with Nate McKibbon taking over as head coach after winning gold as an assistant with the U17 team a year ago. With him are three assistants making their first appearances behind a

Team Ontario bench, but they all bring a wealth of knowledge and experience in coaching basketball in this province. With a quality training camp and AAU warm-up events, all are poised to keep the streak alive.

graduated

2012 girls U15 Teamcoaching staff

NATE MCKIBBON

McKibbon is a gold medal winner after spending last summer as an assistant with U17 Team Ontario … NCCP Level 3 Certified … Women’s technical lead for Ontario Basketball’s Centre for Performance …

Coached with many organizations in Ontario, including Ontario Basketball’s Bantam and Midget Development Programs, the Toronto Lords, Jarvis Collegiate, Westdale Secondary School, Dalewood Middle School, Leo Hayes Secondary and Regional Training Centres … Runs clinics for teams from Switzerland and Cuba … Coached at Euroleague Basketball Institute and has been the assistant coach of Ontario’s CP Girls since 2008 … Co-Chair of the Juvenile Development Program from 2009 to 2010.

HEAD COACH

Since 2009, has been the head coach of Transway Basketball’s Major Bantam Girls and the assistant coach with St Mary's Catholic Secondary Girls, winning the OFSAA Championship in 2010 ...

KAREN BREMNER

Bremner is a first time coach for Team Ontario but represented the province twice in her playing career … Coaches an AAU team and head coach of Bishop Macdonell CSS in Guelph … Assistant coach of KW

Lightning Girls Bantam-Major Midget team … Played at University of Western Ontario before an injury forced her to retire.

ASSISTANT COACH

MARG MULDER

Mulder is the head coach of the Barrie Royals JUEL team … Won 2011 JUEL Coach of the Year award … NCCP Level 2 certified … Represented Canada as a player and won Nationals MVP two years in a row …

Played for York University and the University of Winnipeg, where she was a three-time First Team All-Conference player.

ASSISTANT COACHAMANDA LAUZON

Lauzon has coached every level of the Elite Development Program … Assistant coach with the Centre for Performance in Toronto … Was an assistant coach for a Regional Training Centre in the

Niagara Region … Was an assistant coach with JDP Central East … Was a BDP capital region head coach … NCCP Level 3 trained … A CIS athlete with the University of Toronto Varsity Blues … As a high school player, named Senior Athlete of the Year at A.N. Myer.

ASSISTANT COACH

2012 girls U15 Teamathletes

BRIDGET CARLETON Position: ForwardAge: 15Height: 6-2Hometown: ChathamSchool: John McGregor Secondary SchoolClub: Chatham-Kent Wildcats

Carleton played for the U15 Team Ontario squad that won the National Championships in Winnipeg in 2011 … Won Division 2 gold with the Chatham-Kent Wildcats in 2011 and 2012, leading the team in scoring with 14 points in the championship game in 2012 and hitting the game-winning buzzer-beater in 2011 … Won Female Athletic Award in elementary school … Wants to play at the university level and play for Canada … Role model is her mother, Carrie, who was an accomplished NCAA basketball player and coaches at John McGregor S.S. … Started playing basketball at the age of eight.

JULIA CHANDLER Position: ForwardAge: 15Height: 6-2Hometown: TorontoSchool: NorthernClub: Oakville Venom

Chandler is a first time member of Team Ontario … Her most memorable basketball moments are making this team and making the JUEL league with the Oakville Venom … She went to OFSAA with Northern Secondary School in grade 9 … Aspires to play university basketball and then play professionally in the WNBA or overseas … Wants to play on the Cadette National Team … Favourite players are Sue Bird and Lauren Jackson of the Seattle Storm … Won MVP at a tournament in Ottawa … Started playing basketball in grade 6.

MYRIAM FONTAINE Position: ForwardAge: 15Height: 6-0Hometown: CornwallSchool: La CitadelleClub: Cornwall Lions

Fontaine is making her first appearance on Team Ontario … Her most memorable basketball moment was when her Cornwall Lions team was invited to play at the Eastern Canadian National Championships in St. John’s, Newfoundland … Earned a silver medal and made the tournament all-star team, recording 20 points and 13 rebounds in the championship game … Won an Ontario Cup gold medal in Division 2 with the Cornwall Lions in 2011 and a bronze in Division 1 in 2012 … Aspires to get a scholarship to play university basketball and play for the Canadian national team … Favourite player is Michael Jordan.

LAUREN HANDY Position: ForwardAge: 14Height: 6-2Hometown: SarniaSchool: Northern CollegiateClub: Sarnia Valhalla

Handy is making her first appearance on Team Ontario … She won bronze in the U17 Division 1 OBA Championship with Sarnia Valhalla with only six players on the team including U17 Team Ontario’s Cassidy Crowe … Aspires to play NCAA Division 1 basketball and wants to play for the Canadian national team … Finished fourth in OFSAA AAAA with the Northern Vikings in 2011 … Won the LSSAA senior girls championship in 2011 … Started playing basketball in grade 6.


NATE MCKIBBON

McKibbon is a gold medal winner after spending last summer as an assistant with U17 Team Ontario … NCCP Level 3 Certified … Women’s technical lead for Ontario Basketball’s Centre for Performance …

Coached with many organizations in Ontario, including Ontario Basketball’s Bantam and Midget Development Programs, the Toronto Lords, Jarvis Collegiate, Westdale Secondary School, Dalewood Middle School, Leo Hayes Secondary and Regional Training Centres … Runs clinics for teams from Switzerland and Cuba … Coached at Euroleague Basketball Institute and has been the assistant coach of Ontario’s CP Girls since 2008 … Co-Chair of the Juvenile Development Program from 2009 to 2010.

HEAD COACH

Since 2009, has been the head coach of Transway Basketball’s Major Bantam Girls and the assistant coach with St Mary's Catholic Secondary Girls, winning the OFSAA Championship in 2010 ...

KAREN BREMNER

Bremner is a first time coach for Team Ontario but represented the province twice in her playing career … Coaches an AAU team and head coach of Bishop Macdonell CSS in Guelph … Assistant coach of KW

Lightning Girls Bantam-Major Midget team … Played at University of Western Ontario before an injury forced her to retire.

ASSISTANT COACH

MARG MULDER

Mulder is the head coach of the Barrie Royals JUEL team … Won 2011 JUEL Coach of the Year award … NCCP Level 2 certified … Represented Canada as a player and won Nationals MVP two years in a row …

Played for York University and the University of Winnipeg, where she was a three-time First Team All-Conference player.

ASSISTANT COACHAMANDA LAUZON

Lauzon has coached every level of the Elite Development Program … Assistant coach with the Centre for Performance in Toronto … Was an assistant coach for a Regional Training Centre in the

Niagara Region … Was an assistant coach with JDP Central East … Was a BDP capital region head coach … NCCP Level 3 trained … A CIS athlete with the University of Toronto Varsity Blues … As a high school player, named Senior Athlete of the Year at A.N. Myer.

ASSISTANT COACH


BRIDGET CARLETON Position: ForwardAge: 15Height: 6-2Hometown: ChathamSchool: John McGregor Secondary SchoolClub: Chatham-Kent Wildcats

Carleton played for the U15 Team Ontario squad that won the National Championships in Winnipeg in 2011 … Won Division 2 gold with the Chatham-Kent Wildcats in 2011 and 2012, leading the team in scoring with 14 points in the championship game in 2012 and hitting the game-winning buzzer-beater in 2011 … Won Female Athletic Award in elementary school … Wants to play at the university level and play for Canada … Role model is her mother, Carrie, who was an accomplished NCAA basketball player and coaches at John McGregor S.S. … Started playing basketball at the age of eight.

JULIA CHANDLER Position: ForwardAge: 15Height: 6-2Hometown: TorontoSchool: NorthernClub: Oakville Venom

Chandler is a first time member of Team Ontario … Her most memorable basketball moments are making this team and making the JUEL league with the Oakville Venom … She went to OFSAA with Northern Secondary School in grade 9 … Aspires to play university basketball and then play professionally in the WNBA or overseas … Wants to play on the Cadette National Team … Favourite players are Sue Bird and Lauren Jackson of the Seattle Storm … Won MVP at a tournament in Ottawa … Started playing basketball in grade 6.

MYRIAM FONTAINE Position: ForwardAge: 15Height: 6-0Hometown: CornwallSchool: La CitadelleClub: Cornwall Lions

Fontaine is making her first appearance on Team Ontario … Her most memorable basketball moment was when her Cornwall Lions team was invited to play at the Eastern Canadian National Championships in St. John’s, Newfoundland … Earned a silver medal and made the tournament all-star team, recording 20 points and 13 rebounds in the championship game … Won an Ontario Cup gold medal in Division 2 with the Cornwall Lions in 2011 and a bronze in Division 1 in 2012 … Aspires to get a scholarship to play university basketball and play for the Canadian national team … Favourite player is Michael Jordan.

LAUREN HANDY Position: ForwardAge: 14Height: 6-2Hometown: SarniaSchool: Northern CollegiateClub: Sarnia Valhalla

Handy is making her first appearance on Team Ontario … She won bronze in the U17 Division 1 OBA Championship with Sarnia Valhalla with only six players on the team including U17 Team Ontario’s Cassidy Crowe … Aspires to play NCAA Division 1 basketball and wants to play for the Canadian national team … Finished fourth in OFSAA AAAA with the Northern Vikings in 2011 … Won the LSSAA senior girls championship in 2011 … Started playing basketball in grade 6.


ALANNA HENDRICKSPosition: GuardAge: 14Height: 5-4Hometown: PickeringSchool: Pickering HighClub: Scarborough Blues

Hendricks is a first-time member of Team Ontario … She won two championships in a row with her Scarborough Blues rep team … Won MVP at a tournament in Caledon … Went to OFSAA for basketball and track and field … Started to play basketball at seven years old on an Ajax Lions boys team … Drinks chocolate milk before every game.

KATE HILL Position: GuardAge: 14Height: 5’6Hometown: TorontoSchool: Eastern CommerceClub: Scarborough Blues

Hill is a first-time member of Team Ontario … Most memorable basketball moment is winning gold at OBA provincial championships … Aspires to play basketball for Duke University and then play in the WNBA, preferably for the Chicago Sky … Favourite basketball players are Derrick Rose and Maya Moore … Played on the Eastern Commerce senior team in her first year and made it to OFSAA … Comes from a basketball family, with brothers Alex and Jake, and sister Sammy all playing for Eastern Commerce … Honour roll student … Started playing basketball at the age of five.

KATHARINA HOLT Position: ForwardAge: 15Height: 6-0Hometown: PerkinsfieldSchool: Penetang S.S.Club: Barrie Royals

Holt won an OBA Division 1 gold medal in 2011 with the Barrie Royals Midget U15 squad this spring … Won 2012 Junior Girls Athlete of the Year award at Penetang Secondary School … Went to OFSAA quaterfinals with Penetang in 2011 … Participated in OBA’s BDP Mega Camp in 2009 … Won Sportsmanship award and Most Involved Student award … Aspires to play for the Canadian national team, play university basketball and play professionally overseas … Favourite basketball player is Theresa Gabriel because of her work ethic, perseverance, determination, leadership and skill … Started playing basketball at the age of 7.

JAELYNE KIRKPATRICKPosition: GuardAge: 14Height: 5-6Hometown: OakvilleSchool: Loyola OakvilleClub: Oakville Venom

Kirkpatrick is a first-time member of Team Ontario … She went undefeated for an entire OBA season with the Oakville Venom and won provincials … MVP of Caledon tournament …Aspires to play Division 1 NCAA basketball, make the WNBA and become a coach … Favourite player is Cheryl Miller because she reminds her that girls can be just as good as boys on the court … Honour student … Biggest inspiration is her father, Scott … Made Team Ontario for soccer … Started playing basketball at the age of nine for the North Toronto Huskies.


MICHAELA NIEUWENHUIZEN Age: 14Position: ForwardHeight: 6-3Hometown: StrathroySchool: Strathroy D.C.I.Club: London Ramblers

Nieuwenhuizen is a first-time member of Team Ontario … She has played OBA for the last eight years … Aspires to play for the Canadian national team and get a university degree … Her favourite player is her sister, Emma, who has played for Team Ontario U15, U17, the 2008 Cadette national team and currently the Western Mustangs … Started playing in grade 2 with her sister and her father.

KEYIRA PARKESPosition: GuardAge: 14Height: 5-4Hometown: ScarboroughSchool: Blessed Pope John Paul IIClub: Scarborough Blues

Parkes is a first-time member of Team Ontario … She won gold medals at the Provincials two years in a row with the Scarborough Blues … MVP of the 2010 Top Gun Tournament … Was an All-Star at an Eastern Commerce basketball tournament … Won MVP at her first basketball camp, Jamaal Magloire’s camp … Aspires to study medicine at Duke and play in the WNBA, preferably for the L.A. Sparks … Favourite basketball players are Kobe Bryant, Candace Parker and Austin Rivers … Started playing basketball at the age of seven.

NADEZA RADONJICPosition: ForwardAge: 15Height: 6-0Hometown: TorontoSchool: Zion Heights Junior HighClub: Scarborough Blues

Radonjic is a first-time member of Team Ontario … 2011 GTA All-Star … 2009 Athlete of the Year at her school … Most memorable basketball moments are making Team Ontario and attending CP centralized sessions and working with Team Canada coach Allison McNeill … Aspires to play for Team Canada in the Olympics and make the WNBA … Favourite player is Seimone Augustus of the Minnesota Lynx because of her consistency and athleticism … Won a city/conference championship with her school in grade 8 and a regional championship in grade 9 … Started playing basketball in grade 3.

YASMYNE SALHIA-BERNALESPosition: GuardAge: 14Height: 5-9Hometown: TorontoSchool: Bill Crothers S.S.Club: York South Silver Knights

Salhia-Bernales is a returning member of Team Ontario, having won Nationals with the U15 Girls in 2011 … Stepfather Greg Grant has coached her with the Barrie Royals and the York South Silver Knights … Twice named MVP of the Barrie Royals … Featured as CTV’s athlete of the week in October 2011 … Wants to play basketball for Stanford University and then play professionally … Also aspires to be a teacher … Idolizes her favourite player, Skylar Diggins … Won the Academic Award in grade 8 … Won a Principal’s Award … Lists her parents as her role models … Started playing basketball at nine years of age.


ALANNA HENDRICKSPosition: GuardAge: 14Height: 5-4Hometown: PickeringSchool: Pickering HighClub: Scarborough Blues

Hendricks is a first-time member of Team Ontario … She won two championships in a row with her Scarborough Blues rep team … Won MVP at a tournament in Caledon … Went to OFSAA for basketball and track and field … Started to play basketball at seven years old on an Ajax Lions boys team … Drinks chocolate milk before every game.

KATE HILL Position: GuardAge: 14Height: 5’6Hometown: TorontoSchool: Eastern CommerceClub: Scarborough Blues

Hill is a first-time member of Team Ontario … Most memorable basketball moment is winning gold at OBA provincial championships … Aspires to play basketball for Duke University and then play in the WNBA, preferably for the Chicago Sky … Favourite basketball players are Derrick Rose and Maya Moore … Played on the Eastern Commerce senior team in her first year and made it to OFSAA … Comes from a basketball family, with brothers Alex and Jake, and sister Sammy all playing for Eastern Commerce … Honour roll student … Started playing basketball at the age of five.

KATHARINA HOLT Position: ForwardAge: 15Height: 6-0Hometown: PerkinsfieldSchool: Penetang S.S.Club: Barrie Royals

Holt won an OBA Division 1 gold medal in 2011 with the Barrie Royals Midget U15 squad this spring … Won 2012 Junior Girls Athlete of the Year award at Penetang Secondary School … Went to OFSAA quaterfinals with Penetang in 2011 … Participated in OBA’s BDP Mega Camp in 2009 … Won Sportsmanship award and Most Involved Student award … Aspires to play for the Canadian national team, play university basketball and play professionally overseas … Favourite basketball player is Theresa Gabriel because of her work ethic, perseverance, determination, leadership and skill … Started playing basketball at the age of 7.

JAELYNE KIRKPATRICKPosition: GuardAge: 14Height: 5-6Hometown: OakvilleSchool: Loyola OakvilleClub: Oakville Venom

Kirkpatrick is a first-time member of Team Ontario … She went undefeated for an entire OBA season with the Oakville Venom and won provincials … MVP of Caledon tournament …Aspires to play Division 1 NCAA basketball, make the WNBA and become a coach … Favourite player is Cheryl Miller because she reminds her that girls can be just as good as boys on the court … Honour student … Biggest inspiration is her father, Scott … Made Team Ontario for soccer … Started playing basketball at the age of nine for the North Toronto Huskies.


MICHAELA NIEUWENHUIZEN Age: 14Position: ForwardHeight: 6-3Hometown: StrathroySchool: Strathroy D.C.I.Club: London Ramblers

Nieuwenhuizen is a first-time member of Team Ontario … She has played OBA for the last eight years … Aspires to play for the Canadian national team and get a university degree … Her favourite player is her sister, Emma, who has played for Team Ontario U15, U17, the 2008 Cadette national team and currently the Western Mustangs … Started playing in grade 2 with her sister and her father.

KEYIRA PARKESPosition: GuardAge: 14Height: 5-4Hometown: ScarboroughSchool: Blessed Pope John Paul IIClub: Scarborough Blues

Parkes is a first-time member of Team Ontario … She won gold medals at the Provincials two years in a row with the Scarborough Blues … MVP of the 2010 Top Gun Tournament … Was an All-Star at an Eastern Commerce basketball tournament … Won MVP at her first basketball camp, Jamaal Magloire’s camp … Aspires to study medicine at Duke and play in the WNBA, preferably for the L.A. Sparks … Favourite basketball players are Kobe Bryant, Candace Parker and Austin Rivers … Started playing basketball at the age of seven.

NADEZA RADONJICPosition: ForwardAge: 15Height: 6-0Hometown: TorontoSchool: Zion Heights Junior HighClub: Scarborough Blues

Radonjic is a first-time member of Team Ontario … 2011 GTA All-Star … 2009 Athlete of the Year at her school … Most memorable basketball moments are making Team Ontario and attending CP centralized sessions and working with Team Canada coach Allison McNeill … Aspires to play for Team Canada in the Olympics and make the WNBA … Favourite player is Seimone Augustus of the Minnesota Lynx because of her consistency and athleticism … Won a city/conference championship with her school in grade 8 and a regional championship in grade 9 … Started playing basketball in grade 3.

YASMYNE SALHIA-BERNALESPosition: GuardAge: 14Height: 5-9Hometown: TorontoSchool: Bill Crothers S.S.Club: York South Silver Knights

Salhia-Bernales is a returning member of Team Ontario, having won Nationals with the U15 Girls in 2011 … Stepfather Greg Grant has coached her with the Barrie Royals and the York South Silver Knights … Twice named MVP of the Barrie Royals … Featured as CTV’s athlete of the week in October 2011 … Wants to play basketball for Stanford University and then play professionally … Also aspires to be a teacher … Idolizes her favourite player, Skylar Diggins … Won the Academic Award in grade 8 … Won a Principal’s Award … Lists her parents as her role models … Started playing basketball at nine years of age.

2012 girls U15 development Teamcoaching staff

ANNEMARIE SSEMANDA

Ssemanda won gold medals as an assistant coach on the U15 Team in 2010 and 2011 … She is working toward becoming NCCP Level 3 certified … Coaches at the Centre for Performance … Coached

within OBA’s Elite Development Program … Coached at Regional Training Centres … Head coach of the senior girls team at Cathedral High School in Hamilton, where she played her high school basketball … Teaches Science and Religion … Played for the University of Guelph Gryphons, named a OUA rookie All-Star and an academic All-Canadian … Won an OUA championship with the Gryphons … Earned an Honours Bio-Medical Science degree from Guelph and a Bachelor of Education from York University.

HEAD COACHHEATHER ANGUS

Angus is an assistant coach with the defending CIS Champion University of Windsor Lady Lancers … NCCP Level 1 certified … Developmental coach with Transway basketball … Coach at Olympia Sports

Camp … Former Team Ontario athlete … Three-time OFSAA Champion with Hamilton’s St. Mary’s High School … CIS National Champion … Two-time OUA Champion.

ASSISTANT COACH

ROB ANGIONE

Angione is an Ontario Basketball Centre for Performance coach … Head coach and teacher at Regina Mundi Catholic College … Head Coach of U16 London Ramblers, coached the Ramblers for

seven years … NCCP Level 2 certified.

ASSISTANT COACH

2012 girls U15 development Teamathletes

HALLE BOVELL Position: Guard/ForwardAge: 14Height: 5-8Hometown: HamiltonSchool: St. MaryClub: Hamilton Transway

Bovell is a first-time member of Team Ontario … She won an OBA championship in grade 5 … Won three MVP awards and a defensive player of the year award … Favourite player is Steve Nash … Both her parents played basketball and encouraged her to start playing in grade 2.

HAILEY BROWNPosition: ForwardAge: 12Height: 6-2Hometown: HamiltonSchool: Lawfield ElementaryClub: Newman Youth Cardinals

Brown is on Team Ontario for the first time … Was in the Centre for Performance (CP) in Hamilton’s regional pod … Most memorable basketball moment was winning MVP at a tournament … Aspires to play NCAA basketball … Won Ontario Cup bronze medal with the Newman Youth Cardinals at Division 1 in 2011 … Favourite basketball players are Dwyane Wade and Maya Moore … Started playing basketball in grade 5.

ELLA CHILTONPosition: Guard-ForwardAge: 14Height: 5-4Hometown: BarrieSchool: Eastview Secondary SchoolClub: Barrie Royals

Chilton is a first-time member of Team Ontario … She has played OBA since 2009 and her most memorable basketball moment is her first OBA competition … Won MVP for the Barrie Royals … Has won Most Improved Player and Fair Play awards … Played with U15 Ontario teammate Katharina Holt with the Barrie Royals … Started playing competitive basketball at the age of 10 when she was encouraged to try out for the local Thunderhoops team, stuck with it because she liked it better than dance … Favourite basketball player is Steve Nash.

SARAH COULTHARD

Age: 13Height: 5-8Hometown: LondonSchool: Kensal ParkClub: London Ramblers

Coulthard is making her first appearance on Team Ontario … The highlight of her OBA Division 1 career so far was making it to the championship game against Brantford CYO in grade 6 … Comes from a “basketball-crazy” family … Started playing basketball in grade 5… Favourite player is Ray Allen because of his attitude and how he just plays the game and doesn’t get caught up in the drama.

Position: Forward

2012 girls U15 development Teamcoaching staff

ANNEMARIE SSEMANDA

Ssemanda won gold medals as an assistant coach on the U15 Team in 2010 and 2011 … She is working toward becoming NCCP Level 3 certified … Coaches at the Centre for Performance … Coached

within OBA’s Elite Development Program … Coached at Regional Training Centres … Head coach of the senior girls team at Cathedral High School in Hamilton, where she played her high school basketball … Teaches Science and Religion … Played for the University of Guelph Gryphons, named a OUA rookie All-Star and an academic All-Canadian … Won an OUA championship with the Gryphons … Earned an Honours Bio-Medical Science degree from Guelph and a Bachelor of Education from York University.

HEAD COACHHEATHER ANGUS

Angus is an assistant coach with the defending CIS Champion University of Windsor Lady Lancers … NCCP Level 1 certified … Developmental coach with Transway basketball … Coach at Olympia Sports

Camp … Former Team Ontario athlete … Three-time OFSAA Champion with Hamilton’s St. Mary’s High School … CIS National Champion … Two-time OUA Champion.

ASSISTANT COACH

ROB ANGIONE

Angione is an Ontario Basketball Centre for Performance coach … Head coach and teacher at Regina Mundi Catholic College … Head Coach of U16 London Ramblers, coached the Ramblers for

seven years … NCCP Level 2 certified.

ASSISTANT COACH


HALLE BOVELL Position: Guard/ForwardAge: 14Height: 5-8Hometown: HamiltonSchool: St. MaryClub: Hamilton Transway

Bovell is a first-time member of Team Ontario … She won an OBA championship in grade 5 … Won three MVP awards and a defensive player of the year award … Favourite player is Steve Nash … Both her parents played basketball and encouraged her to start playing in grade 2.

HAILEY BROWNPosition: ForwardAge: 12Height: 6-2Hometown: HamiltonSchool: Lawfield ElementaryClub: Newman Youth Cardinals

Brown is on Team Ontario for the first time … Was in the Centre for Performance (CP) in Hamilton’s regional pod … Most memorable basketball moment was winning MVP at a tournament … Aspires to play NCAA basketball … Won Ontario Cup bronze medal with the Newman Youth Cardinals at Division 1 in 2011 … Favourite basketball players are Dwyane Wade and Maya Moore … Started playing basketball in grade 5.

ELLA CHILTONPosition: Guard-ForwardAge: 14Height: 5-4Hometown: BarrieSchool: Eastview Secondary SchoolClub: Barrie Royals

Chilton is a first-time member of Team Ontario … She has played OBA since 2009 and her most memorable basketball moment is her first OBA competition … Won MVP for the Barrie Royals … Has won Most Improved Player and Fair Play awards … Played with U15 Ontario teammate Katharina Holt with the Barrie Royals … Started playing competitive basketball at the age of 10 when she was encouraged to try out for the local Thunderhoops team, stuck with it because she liked it better than dance … Favourite basketball player is Steve Nash.

SARAH COULTHARD

Age: 13Height: 5-8Hometown: LondonSchool: Kensal ParkClub: London Ramblers

Coulthard is making her first appearance on Team Ontario … The highlight of her OBA Division 1 career so far was making it to the championship game against Brantford CYO in grade 6 … Comes from a “basketball-crazy” family … Started playing basketball in grade 5… Favourite player is Ray Allen because of his attitude and how he just plays the game and doesn’t get caught up in the drama.

Position: Forward


TARA DEBOER Position: ForwardAge: 14Height: 6-1Hometown: KitchenerSchool: Grand River CollegiateClub: KW Lightning

DeBoer makes her first appearance on Team Ontario … Her most memorable basketball moment was the first shot she made in her first year, a buzzer-beater … She aspires to play NCAA basketball and be a teacher … Sisters all play basketball, at one time there were four DeBoer sisters playing for four different KW Lightning teams … Father Ronald coaches the KW Lightning … Has won Most Improved, MVP, Learning Skills and Victoria Book awards … Favourite basketball player is Brittney Griner. Honour roll student … Started playing basketball in grade 3.

OKSANA GOUCHIE-PROVENCHERPosition: ForwardAge: 14Height: 6-3Hometown: HawkesburySchool: Ecole Secondaire Catholique Regionale De HawkesburyClub: Hawkesbury Selects

Gouchie-Provencher is a first-time member of Team Ontario and making the team is her most memorable basketball moment… Won bronze at provincials with ESCRH … She aspires to play at the NCAA level … Her favourite player is Chris Bosh … Started playing basketball at age 9, started playing competitively at age 11 with her club team… Also plays volleyball, track and field, football and golf.

HANNA HALLPosition: GuardAge: 13Height: 5-4Hometown:School: Canadian Martyrs’ SchoolClub: Hamilton Transway

Hall is making her first appearance on Team Ontario … Her most memorable moment was winning her fourth OBA Division 1 Championship in Windsor this spring with U13 Hamilton Transway, scoring 35 points and making five threes in the final game … That win qualified Transway for the Eastern Canadian Championships in Charlottetown, P.E.I. … Wants to play Division 1 NCAA basketball and play for the Canadian national team … Favourite basketball player is Derrick Rose …Won a Health and Phys. Ed award at school … Started playing basketball and soccer in grade 2, was invited to the Ontario U14 soccer team but chose basketball instead.

CARMEN HANDY Position:Age: 12Height: 6-0Hometown: SarniaSchool: St. Francois XavierClub: Sarnia Valhalla

Handy is making her first appearance on Team Ontario … She won a Division 2 Ontario Cup gold medal with the Sarnia Valhalla U13 team in Windsor this past Spring … Lists that championship and making Team Ontario as her most memorable basketball moments … Aspires to get a scholarship to play Division 1 NCAA basketball … Won gold at the Lambton County Science Fair … Received “most athletic” award at school … Started playing basketball in grade 4.


ANJA MARINKOVICPosition: GuardAge: 13Height: 5-8Hometown: TorontoSchool: Northern Club: Toronto Triple Threat

Marinkovic is a first-time member of Team Ontario … Was in the Centre for Performance (CP) program in Toronto’s regional pod … Her most memorable basketball moment is making Team Ontario … She has won an MVP award and Athlete of the Year … Aspiration is to make the WNBA … Favourite player is Michael Jordan because she considers him the is the best of the best.

AIDEN RAINFORDPosition: ForwardAge: 13Height: 6-0Hometown: TorontoSchool: Pope Paul VI C.H.SClub: Toronto Triple Threat

Rainford is a first time member of Team Ontario and making the team counts as her most memorable basketball moment … She has just returned from Charlottetown, P.E.I., where she competed at the Eastern Canadian Championships with the U13 Toronto Triple Threat team … Aspires to play NCAA basketball and then be a basketball coach… Favourite player is Dwyane Wade … Started playing basketball at the age of nine.

MACKENZIE TRPCICPosition: GuardAge: 13Height: 5-5Hometown: HamiltonSchool: Ra. RiddellClub: Hamilton Transway

Trpcic is making her first appearance on U15 Team Ontario … Her most memorable basketball memory is winning the Division 1 AAA OBA novice girls title in grade 3 with the Hamilton Blessed Sacrament Yellow Jackets and being named MVP of the tournament … Won the Basketball Ontario Hustle Award in 2007 … Goals are to play basketball in university and then professionally … Her favorite player is Steve Nash because he is tough, hardworking and unselfish … Started playing basketball in grade 1 … Honour student.

KENDRA VANLEEUWENPosition: GuardAge: 13Height: 5-8Hometown: BrantfordSchool: St. John’sClub: Brantford CYO

Her most memorable basketball moment is hitting the game-winning free throw with no time on the clock to give the Brantford CYO bantam girls the OBA Division 1 Championship in 2011 … Aspires to play university basketball … Favourite player is Steve Nash … Has also played track and field, soccer and swimming competitively … Won the Hustle Award at the Provincial Championships in 2007 with her Brantford CYO Novice team … Started playing basketball in grade 3.


TARA DEBOER Position: ForwardAge: 14Height: 6-1Hometown: KitchenerSchool: Grand River CollegiateClub: KW Lightning

DeBoer makes her first appearance on Team Ontario … Her most memorable basketball moment was the first shot she made in her first year, a buzzer-beater … She aspires to play NCAA basketball and be a teacher … Sisters all play basketball, at one time there were four DeBoer sisters playing for four different KW Lightning teams … Father Ronald coaches the KW Lightning … Has won Most Improved, MVP, Learning Skills and Victoria Book awards … Favourite basketball player is Brittney Griner. Honour roll student … Started playing basketball in grade 3.

OKSANA GOUCHIE-PROVENCHERPosition: ForwardAge: 14Height: 6-3Hometown: HawkesburySchool: Ecole Secondaire Catholique Regionale De HawkesburyClub: Hawkesbury Selects

Gouchie-Provencher is a first-time member of Team Ontario and making the team is her most memorable basketball moment… Won bronze at provincials with ESCRH … She aspires to play at the NCAA level … Her favourite player is Chris Bosh … Started playing basketball at age 9, started playing competitively at age 11 with her club team… Also plays volleyball, track and field, football and golf.

HANNA HALLPosition: GuardAge: 13Height: 5-4Hometown:School: Canadian Martyrs’ SchoolClub: Hamilton Transway

Hall is making her first appearance on Team Ontario … Her most memorable moment was winning her fourth OBA Division 1 Championship in Windsor this spring with U13 Hamilton Transway, scoring 35 points and making five threes in the final game … That win qualified Transway for the Eastern Canadian Championships in Charlottetown, P.E.I. … Wants to play Division 1 NCAA basketball and play for the Canadian national team … Favourite basketball player is Derrick Rose …Won a Health and Phys. Ed award at school … Started playing basketball and soccer in grade 2, was invited to the Ontario U14 soccer team but chose basketball instead.

CARMEN HANDY Position:Age: 12Height: 6-0Hometown: SarniaSchool: St. Francois XavierClub: Sarnia Valhalla

Handy is making her first appearance on Team Ontario … She won a Division 2 Ontario Cup gold medal with the Sarnia Valhalla U13 team in Windsor this past Spring … Lists that championship and making Team Ontario as her most memorable basketball moments … Aspires to get a scholarship to play Division 1 NCAA basketball … Won gold at the Lambton County Science Fair … Received “most athletic” award at school … Started playing basketball in grade 4.


ANJA MARINKOVICPosition: GuardAge: 13Height: 5-8Hometown: TorontoSchool: Northern Club: Toronto Triple Threat

Marinkovic is a first-time member of Team Ontario … Was in the Centre for Performance (CP) program in Toronto’s regional pod … Her most memorable basketball moment is making Team Ontario … She has won an MVP award and Athlete of the Year … Aspiration is to make the WNBA … Favourite player is Michael Jordan because she considers him the is the best of the best.

AIDEN RAINFORDPosition: ForwardAge: 13Height: 6-0Hometown: TorontoSchool: Pope Paul VI C.H.SClub: Toronto Triple Threat

Rainford is a first time member of Team Ontario and making the team counts as her most memorable basketball moment … She has just returned from Charlottetown, P.E.I., where she competed at the Eastern Canadian Championships with the U13 Toronto Triple Threat team … Aspires to play NCAA basketball and then be a basketball coach… Favourite player is Dwyane Wade … Started playing basketball at the age of nine.

MACKENZIE TRPCICPosition: GuardAge: 13Height: 5-5Hometown: HamiltonSchool: Ra. RiddellClub: Hamilton Transway

Trpcic is making her first appearance on U15 Team Ontario … Her most memorable basketball memory is winning the Division 1 AAA OBA novice girls title in grade 3 with the Hamilton Blessed Sacrament Yellow Jackets and being named MVP of the tournament … Won the Basketball Ontario Hustle Award in 2007 … Goals are to play basketball in university and then professionally … Her favorite player is Steve Nash because he is tough, hardworking and unselfish … Started playing basketball in grade 1 … Honour student.

KENDRA VANLEEUWENPosition: GuardAge: 13Height: 5-8Hometown: BrantfordSchool: St. John’sClub: Brantford CYO

Her most memorable basketball moment is hitting the game-winning free throw with no time on the clock to give the Brantford CYO bantam girls the OBA Division 1 Championship in 2011 … Aspires to play university basketball … Favourite player is Steve Nash … Has also played track and field, soccer and swimming competitively … Won the Hustle Award at the Provincial Championships in 2007 with her Brantford CYO Novice team … Started playing basketball in grade 3.


Last summer in Winnipeg, the U17 Team Ontario girls, coached by Janine Day, won gold at the Nationals rather convincingly. The gold medal game was a rematch of the 2010 final versus British Columbia when Ontario dropped a heart-breaker in double overtime. This time around, revenge was sweet with an 80-41 dominating performance over B.C.

Those U17 girls relied heavily on their guard play from Dakota Whyte (Ajax) and Katie Polischuk (Brantford). Whyte was named Tournament MVP and Polischuk was a First Team All-Star. This year, the squad has a different look but has lots of Team Ontario experience. Forwards Cheyanne Roger and Sam Cooper return, joined by most of last summer’s gold medal-winning U15 girls team — 10 players including the MVP of the 2011 Nationals, Kia Nurse, and two All-Stars, Christina Buttenham and Mikalah Mulrain, made the leap from U15 to U17.

U15 alumni should feel right at home, though, as head coach Jodi Gram, who led them to their gold medal in Winnipeg, now leads this U17 squad. She brought assistant Lindsay Walsh with her, too. In Fredericton, they’ll try to duplicate their success.

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JODI GRAM HEAD COACH

Gram won gold medals the past two summers as the head coach of U15 Team Ontario … She has coached with Ontario Basketball’s Midget and Juvenile Development Programs and is the current

chair of the Juvenile Development Program … Regional Head Coach at the Centre for Performance … Health and Physical Education teacher at Bill Crothers SS, where she led her Senior Girls basketball team to the York Region Championship in 2010 … Fully certified Level 3 NCCP as well as a Master Learning Facilitator (Introduction to Competition) and a Learning Facilitator and Community Coach (Basketball and Fundamental Movement Skills) … Apprentice Coach and Team Manager of the Cadette National Team last June, winning bronze at the FIBA Americas … Coach with Canada’s Basketball’s Targeted Athlete Strategy.


LINDSAY WALSH

Walsh won a gold medal as an assistant coach for U15 Team Ontario in 2011 … NCCP Level 2 Certified … Coached in Canada Basketball’s Centre for Performance … Coached for Ontario Basketball’s

Elite Development Program … Head coach for Windsor Valiants since 2008 … Serves in a full-time role as Director, Basketball Development for Ontario Basketball … Played for Team Nova Scotia … Won a silver medal with University of Alberta in her rookie year and won Canada West Rookie of the Year honours… Made National Finals with the University of New Brunswick in 2006 … Certified referee … OUA panel official … Three-time CIS academic All-Canadian.

ASSISTANT COACHCHRISTA ENIOJUKAN

Eniojukan is a fully certified Level 2 coach … Coach of Canada Basketball’s youth women’s 3 on 3 team in 2011 … Was the head coach of the Advantage Titans JUEL program … Coaches within Canada

Basketball’s Targeted Athlete Strategy program … Involved with the Centre for Performance program … 2006 Development Team assistant coach … Teacher at Rockcliffe Middle School.

ASSISTANT COACH

BRIDGET ATKINSONPosition: GuardAge: 15Height: 5-7Hometown: WellandSchool: Welland CentennialClub: St. Catharines CYO Rebels

Atkinson is making her first appearance on Team Ontario … Finding out she made the team is the most memorable moment of her career … Played in the Niagara All-Star Classic in 2011 … First Team All-Star in the 2011 Tribune Girls Basketball Tournament … MVP of Welland Invitational Tournament in 2008 … Favorite basketball player is Michael Jordan because of his talent and drive for success … Wants to play basketball in university and become a teacher … Honour roll student … As well as starring for the Centennial Cougars in basketball, she played on the soccer team.

CHRISTINA BUTTENHAMPosition: Guard/ForwardAge: 15Height: 5-11Hometown: HamiltonSchool: St. Mary’sClub: Hamilton Transway

Buttenham played for U15 Team Ontario the past two years, winning the Nationals both times and earning First Team All Star honours in 2011 … This spring, she netted 27 points in the final to lead Hamilton’s Transway U19 rep team to a fifth consecutive OBA Division 1 Championship … Teammates with Team Ontario’s Kia Nurse and Hilary Hanaka on Hamilton Transway, played with Hanaka at St. Mary’s … Named MVP of the 2012 Toronto Lords Tournament and MVP of the St. Mary’s Classic Tip-Off Tournament in 2011 … Hopes to play at an NCAA Division 1 school and study to become a veterinarian.




Last summer in Winnipeg, the U17 Team Ontario girls, coached by Janine Day, won gold at the Nationals rather convincingly. The gold medal game was a rematch of the 2010 final versus British Columbia when Ontario dropped a heart-breaker in double overtime. This time around, revenge was sweet with an 80-41 dominating performance over B.C.

Those U17 girls relied heavily on their guard play from Dakota Whyte (Ajax) and Katie Polischuk (Brantford). Whyte was named Tournament MVP and Polischuk was a First Team All-Star. This year, the squad has a different look but has lots of Team Ontario experience. Forwards Cheyanne Roger and Sam Cooper return, joined by most of last summer’s gold medal-winning U15 girls team — 10 players including the MVP of the 2011 Nationals, Kia Nurse, and two All-Stars, Christina Buttenham and Mikalah Mulrain, made the leap from U15 to U17.

U15 alumni should feel right at home, though, as head coach Jodi Gram, who led them to their gold medal in Winnipeg, now leads this U17 squad. She brought assistant Lindsay Walsh with her, too. In Fredericton, they’ll try to duplicate their success.

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JODI GRAM HEAD COACH

Gram won gold medals the past two summers as the head coach of U15 Team Ontario … She has coached with Ontario Basketball’s Midget and Juvenile Development Programs and is the current

chair of the Juvenile Development Program … Regional Head Coach at the Centre for Performance … Health and Physical Education teacher at Bill Crothers SS, where she led her Senior Girls basketball team to the York Region Championship in 2010 … Fully certified Level 3 NCCP as well as a Master Learning Facilitator (Introduction to Competition) and a Learning Facilitator and Community Coach (Basketball and Fundamental Movement Skills) … Apprentice Coach and Team Manager of the Cadette National Team last June, winning bronze at the FIBA Americas … Coach with Canada’s Basketball’s Targeted Athlete Strategy.


LINDSAY WALSH

Walsh won a gold medal as an assistant coach for U15 Team Ontario in 2011 … NCCP Level 2 Certified … Coached in Canada Basketball’s Centre for Performance … Coached for Ontario Basketball’s

Elite Development Program … Head coach for Windsor Valiants since 2008 … Serves in a full-time role as Director, Basketball Development for Ontario Basketball … Played for Team Nova Scotia … Won a silver medal with University of Alberta in her rookie year and won Canada West Rookie of the Year honours… Made National Finals with the University of New Brunswick in 2006 … Certified referee … OUA panel official … Three-time CIS academic All-Canadian.

ASSISTANT COACHCHRISTA ENIOJUKAN

Eniojukan is a fully certified Level 2 coach … Coach of Canada Basketball’s youth women’s 3 on 3 team in 2011 … Was the head coach of the Advantage Titans JUEL program … Coaches within Canada

Basketball’s Targeted Athlete Strategy program … Involved with the Centre for Performance program … 2006 Development Team assistant coach … Teacher at Rockcliffe Middle School.

ASSISTANT COACH

BRIDGET ATKINSONPosition: GuardAge: 15Height: 5-7Hometown: WellandSchool: Welland CentennialClub: St. Catharines CYO Rebels

Atkinson is making her first appearance on Team Ontario … Finding out she made the team is the most memorable moment of her career … Played in the Niagara All-Star Classic in 2011 … First Team All-Star in the 2011 Tribune Girls Basketball Tournament … MVP of Welland Invitational Tournament in 2008 … Favorite basketball player is Michael Jordan because of his talent and drive for success … Wants to play basketball in university and become a teacher … Honour roll student … As well as starring for the Centennial Cougars in basketball, she played on the soccer team.

CHRISTINA BUTTENHAMPosition: Guard/ForwardAge: 15Height: 5-11Hometown: HamiltonSchool: St. Mary’sClub: Hamilton Transway

Buttenham played for U15 Team Ontario the past two years, winning the Nationals both times and earning First Team All Star honours in 2011 … This spring, she netted 27 points in the final to lead Hamilton’s Transway U19 rep team to a fifth consecutive OBA Division 1 Championship … Teammates with Team Ontario’s Kia Nurse and Hilary Hanaka on Hamilton Transway, played with Hanaka at St. Mary’s … Named MVP of the 2012 Toronto Lords Tournament and MVP of the St. Mary’s Classic Tip-Off Tournament in 2011 … Hopes to play at an NCAA Division 1 school and study to become a veterinarian.




SAMANTHA COOPERPosition: Guard-ForwardAge: 17Height: 6-1Hometown: SudburySchool: Lockerby Composite SchoolClub: Northern Lights JUEL

Cooper has won the gold medal at the National Championships with Team Ontario for two years running and was a First Team All-Star in 2010 … She won an OBA Division 3 gold medal with the U19 Sudbury Selects in 2011, leading the team in scoring at the provincial championships despite being its youngest player … Second Team JUEL All-Star in 2012 … Played in 2012 JUEL All-Star Game … Went to OFSAA for cross country (2x), soccer (2x), swimming (2x), basketball (1x) and volleyball (1x) … Honour roll student … Aspires to be an optometrist … Favourite basketball player is LeBron James … Started playing basketball in grade 5.

CASSIDY CROWEPosition: GuardAge: 15Height: 5-11Hometown: SarniaSchool: Sarnia Northern Club: Sarnia Valhalla

Crowe is making her third appearance on Team Ontario, winning the Nationals in 2010 and 2011 … She earned a bronze medal at the Division 1 Ontario Cup tournament with the U17 Sarnia Valhalla, despite the team only playing six players … Went to AAA OFSAA with Sarnia Northern and came in fourth place … Won junior girls’ 80m and 300m hurdles at SWOSSAA track and field championships … Favourite basketball player is Sarnia’s Kendal Ross … Started playing basketball in grade six, wants to go as far as she can with it.

SAICHA GRANT-ALLEN Position: ForwardAge: 16Height: 6-5Hometown: HamiltonSchool: Glendale Secondary SchoolClub: Oakville Venom

Grant-Allen is a first time member of Team Ontario, but played for Team Canada in the summer of 2011 on the U16 Cadet National Team and won a bronze medal at the FIBA Americas U16 Championship … Played in 2012 JUEL All-Star Game … Played in 2012 All-Canada Classic … Most memorable moment is getting her first MVP award at Tammy Sutton-Brown Basketball Camp … Wants to be a professional basketball player and a French teacher … Favourite player is LeBron James.

SHAY COLLEY Position: GuardAge: 16Hometown: HamiltonSchool: St. Edmund CampionClub: Brampton Warriors

This is Colley’s fourth year as a member of Team Ontario, as she was a First Team All-Star at Nationals with the U15 team in 2009 and 2010 and played for the U17 team on 2011 … Won a regional Jr. WNBA Skills Challenge competition in 2008, earning her a trip to Orlando for the Jr. WNBA Skills Challenge National Finals … Won Tournament MVP at the Lady Bruins Classic in 2010 after scoring 26 points against Eastern Commerce … Wants to be a gym teacher … Her favourite player is Kobe Bryant because of his grace, talent, speed and determination … Started playing basketball at the age of six.


HILARY HANAKAPosition: GuardAge: 16Height: 5-4Hometown:School: St. Mary’sClub: Hamilton Transway

Hanaka is on Team Ontario for the third year in a row, having won gold medals with the U15 team the in 2010 and 2011 … Most memorable moment is winning her first provincial gold medal … Won five OBA Division 1 gold medals with fellow Team Ontario members Christina Buttenham and Kia Nurse at Hamilton Transway… Played on Canada’s Cadette National Team in 2011, winning a bronze medal at the FIBA Americas in Mexico… Won AAA gold and AAAA gold medals at OFSAA with St. Mary’s alongside teammate Christina Buttenham … Played competitive basketball since the age of seven.

ALEXANDRA HAYPosition: GuardAge: 16Height: 5-8Hometown: BarrieSchool: Eastview SSClub: Barrie Royals JUEL

Hay is a returning member of Team Ontario, having won a gold medal in 2011 with the U15 Girls at the Nationals in Winnipeg … She won an OBA gold medal with her Barrie Royals Midget U15 Girls team this Spring … Went to AAAA OFSAA with Eastview Secondary School in 2011 … Wants to study accounting or business in university … Favourite basketball player is Kobe Bryant … Started playing basketball for the Barrie Royals in grade three … High school and club teammate of fellow Team Ontario member Megan Smith.

NANCY KESSLERPosition: ForwardAge: 15Height: 6-4Hometown: St. CatharinesSchool: St. Francis CatholicClub: St. Catharines CYO Rebels

Kessler is back with Team Ontario after winning a National Championship with the U15 Girls in 2011 … Won a bronze medal with St. Francis at the OFSAA AA Championships in 2011 … Made the Niagara All-Star Team in 2011 … Credits coaches such as Dave Picton and Pat O’Leary for her development … Honour roll student … First played basketball for a local travel team at age nine.

DANIELLE MARIONPosition: Guard-ForwardAge: 17Height: 5-11Hometown: WellandSchool: Ecole Secondaire ConfederationClub: Niagara JUEL

Marion is a member of Team Ontario for the first time this summer … OFSAA champion in 2010 and 2011 as a member of the Confederation Jaguars … Won Junior and Senior Athlete Of The Year awards at Confederation … Won Confederation’s Most Valuable Player award for tennis and led the tennis team to the OFSAA championships … Favourite player is LeBron James … Started playing basketball when she was six.


SAMANTHA COOPERPosition: Guard-ForwardAge: 17Height: 6-1Hometown: SudburySchool: Lockerby Composite SchoolClub: Northern Lights JUEL

Cooper has won the gold medal at the National Championships with Team Ontario for two years running and was a First Team All-Star in 2010 … She won an OBA Division 3 gold medal with the U19 Sudbury Selects in 2011, leading the team in scoring at the provincial championships despite being its youngest player … Second Team JUEL All-Star in 2012 … Played in 2012 JUEL All-Star Game … Went to OFSAA for cross country (2x), soccer (2x), swimming (2x), basketball (1x) and volleyball (1x) … Honour roll student … Aspires to be an optometrist … Favourite basketball player is LeBron James … Started playing basketball in grade 5.

CASSIDY CROWEPosition: GuardAge: 15Height: 5-11Hometown: SarniaSchool: Sarnia Northern Club: Sarnia Valhalla

Crowe is making her third appearance on Team Ontario, winning the Nationals in 2010 and 2011 … She earned a bronze medal at the Division 1 Ontario Cup tournament with the U17 Sarnia Valhalla, despite the team only playing six players … Went to AAA OFSAA with Sarnia Northern and came in fourth place … Won junior girls’ 80m and 300m hurdles at SWOSSAA track and field championships … Favourite basketball player is Sarnia’s Kendal Ross … Started playing basketball in grade six, wants to go as far as she can with it.

SAICHA GRANT-ALLEN Position: ForwardAge: 16Height: 6-5Hometown: HamiltonSchool: Glendale Secondary SchoolClub: Oakville Venom

Grant-Allen is a first time member of Team Ontario, but played for Team Canada in the summer of 2011 on the U16 Cadet National Team and won a bronze medal at the FIBA Americas U16 Championship … Played in 2012 JUEL All-Star Game … Played in 2012 All-Canada Classic … Most memorable moment is getting her first MVP award at Tammy Sutton-Brown Basketball Camp … Wants to be a professional basketball player and a French teacher … Favourite player is LeBron James.

SHAY COLLEY Position: GuardAge: 16Hometown: HamiltonSchool: St. Edmund CampionClub: Brampton Warriors

This is Colley’s fourth year as a member of Team Ontario, as she was a First Team All-Star at Nationals with the U15 team in 2009 and 2010 and played for the U17 team on 2011 … Won a regional Jr. WNBA Skills Challenge competition in 2008, earning her a trip to Orlando for the Jr. WNBA Skills Challenge National Finals … Won Tournament MVP at the Lady Bruins Classic in 2010 after scoring 26 points against Eastern Commerce … Wants to be a gym teacher … Her favourite player is Kobe Bryant because of his grace, talent, speed and determination … Started playing basketball at the age of six.


HILARY HANAKAPosition: GuardAge: 16Height: 5-4Hometown:School: St. Mary’sClub: Hamilton Transway

Hanaka is on Team Ontario for the third year in a row, having won gold medals with the U15 team the in 2010 and 2011 … Most memorable moment is winning her first provincial gold medal … Won five OBA Division 1 gold medals with fellow Team Ontario members Christina Buttenham and Kia Nurse at Hamilton Transway… Played on Canada’s Cadette National Team in 2011, winning a bronze medal at the FIBA Americas in Mexico… Won AAA gold and AAAA gold medals at OFSAA with St. Mary’s alongside teammate Christina Buttenham … Played competitive basketball since the age of seven.

ALEXANDRA HAYPosition: GuardAge: 16Height: 5-8Hometown: BarrieSchool: Eastview SSClub: Barrie Royals JUEL

Hay is a returning member of Team Ontario, having won a gold medal in 2011 with the U15 Girls at the Nationals in Winnipeg … She won an OBA gold medal with her Barrie Royals Midget U15 Girls team this Spring … Went to AAAA OFSAA with Eastview Secondary School in 2011 … Wants to study accounting or business in university … Favourite basketball player is Kobe Bryant … Started playing basketball for the Barrie Royals in grade three … High school and club teammate of fellow Team Ontario member Megan Smith.

NANCY KESSLERPosition: ForwardAge: 15Height: 6-4Hometown: St. CatharinesSchool: St. Francis CatholicClub: St. Catharines CYO Rebels

Kessler is back with Team Ontario after winning a National Championship with the U15 Girls in 2011 … Won a bronze medal with St. Francis at the OFSAA AA Championships in 2011 … Made the Niagara All-Star Team in 2011 … Credits coaches such as Dave Picton and Pat O’Leary for her development … Honour roll student … First played basketball for a local travel team at age nine.

DANIELLE MARIONPosition: Guard-ForwardAge: 17Height: 5-11Hometown: WellandSchool: Ecole Secondaire ConfederationClub: Niagara JUEL

Marion is a member of Team Ontario for the first time this summer … OFSAA champion in 2010 and 2011 as a member of the Confederation Jaguars … Won Junior and Senior Athlete Of The Year awards at Confederation … Won Confederation’s Most Valuable Player award for tennis and led the tennis team to the OFSAA championships … Favourite player is LeBron James … Started playing basketball when she was six.


MIKALAH MULRAINPosition: ForwardAge: 15Height: 6-2Hometown BramptonSchool: Ascension of Our Lord Secondary SchoolClub: Mississauga Wolverines

Mulrain is returning to Team Ontario after earning Second Team All-Star honours while winning Nationals with the U15 in 2011 … She had 17 points and 19 rebounds in the championship game … Calls experience at the Nationals amazing, tiring, life-changing … Played at the Ontario Summer Games in 2011 … Toronto Star GTA High School All-Star in 2010 … Wants to study Kinesiology in university and become an athletic therapist … Started playing basketball in grade 6.

KIA NURSE Position: GuardAge: 16Height: 6-0Hometown: HamiltonSchool: St. Thomas MoreClub: Hamilton Transway

Nurse was named Female Ontario Basketball Player of the Year in 2011 … Won gold medals with U15 Team Ontario in 2010 and 2011, winning tournament MVP both times … Named Hazel Miner Award winner in 2011 … Played for Team Canada’s 2011 Cadette U16 team, leading the team in scoring and tying for the lead in assists while winning the bronze medal at the world qualifiers in Mexico … Won five straight OBA Division 1 Championships with Hamilton Transway … Won 2011 OFSAA AAA Championships, leading St. Thomas More with 19 points in the final game … Played in the Hamilton Spectator All-Star Classic in 2011 and 2012 … Honour roll student.

EMMA O’BRIENPosition: Guard-ForwardAge: 16Height: 6-0Hometown: BrockvilleSchool: St. Mary Catholic High SchoolClub: Brockville Blazers

O’Brien is making her first appearance on Team Ontario … First Team LGSSAA All-Star in 2011 … Three-time LGSSAA champion with the St. Mary Crusaders … Went to EOSSA two years in a row with St. Mary … Went to OFSAA with St. Mary in 2011 … Only girl from Kingston tryout to advance past the first round of cuts for Team Ontario, only girl from Eastern Ontario on the team … Played in Ontario Summer Games in 2011 … Aspires to play Division 1 NCAA basketball … Wants to become a lawyer or go into business … Started playing basketball when she was asked to try out for her grade 7 team … Honour roll student.

ASHLEY POLACEK Position: GuardAge: 15Height: 5-4Hometown: OttawaSchool: Louis-RielClub: Gloucester Wolverines

Polacek is a first-time member of Team Ontario … Won OFSAA AAA Championship with Louis-Riel Rebelles in 2010 … Her style as a point guard earns her comparisons to Steve Nash, her favourite player … Wants to be a physiotherapist or a trainer for a basketball team … Started playing basketball at age 10, calls it her getaway.


MACKENZIE PUKLICZ Position: Guard-ForwardAge: 16Height: 5-9Hometown: LondonSchool: St. Thomas AquinasClub: London Ramblers JUEL

Puklicz is playing for Team Ontario for the first time this summer … She appeared in the 2012 JUEL All-Star Game … Started playing basketball in grade two for fun, grade six competitively … Won Athlete of the Year at St. Thomas Aquinas High School … Honour roll student … Aspires to be either a teacher or a doctor because she wants to make a difference and help others ... Favourite basketball player is Blake Griffin.

CHEYANNE ROGER Position: ForwardAge: 17Height: 6-2Hometown: TorontoSchool: Michael Power/St. JosephClub: North Toronto Huskies JUEL

Roger is a returning member of Team Ontario, having competed on the provincial team since 2009 … Won gold with Team Ontario U15 in 2009 and 2010 and again with Team Ontario U17 in 2011 … Played in 2012 JUEL All-Star Game … Made the JUEL All-Defensive Team in 2012 … Won a bronze medal in 2011 with the Cadette U17 in Mexico , calls that her most memorable moment and most important experience … Won the 2012 JUEL Championship with the North Toronto Huskies, leading the league in field goal percentage and blocks … Made it to OFSAA AAAA with Michael Power/St. Joseph in 2010 and 2011 …Wants to be the first Aboriginal player in the WNBA

VICTORIA RAMPADO Position: ForwardAge: 16Height: 6-1Hometown: Niagara FallsSchool: A.N. MyerClub: Niagara Falls Red Raiders

Rampado is a returning member of Team Ontario, having won gold at Nationals last summer with the U15 team … Played in the 2012 JUEL All-Star Game … Finished second at OFSAA AAA Championships with the A.N. Myer Marauders… Verbally committed to attend Niagara University … MVP of 2011 Standard Girls High School Basketball Tournament in 2009 and 2011, while winning both tournaments … Honour roll student … Favourite basketball player is Derrick Rose … Aspires to be a teacher … Started playing basketball in grade four.

MEGAN SMITH Position: GuardAge: 15Height: 6-0Hometown: OrilliaSchool: Eastview S.S. Club: Barrie Royals Juel

Smith’s most memorable basketball moment took place last summer while with U15 Team Ontario, when she counted down the seconds until the final buzzer in Winnipeg from the bench and then ran onto the court as her team won the National Championship … She won an OBA Division 1 gold medal with the Barrie Royals Midget U15 Girls team in 2011 … Went to OFSAA for track and field (discus and shot put) in 2011 … Went to AAAA OFSAA with Eastview Secondary School in 2011 … Honour student … Wants to be a physiotherapist for sports-related injuries … Favourite basketball player is Derrick Rose … Started playing basketball in grade two at Thunderhoops Basketball Camp.


MIKALAH MULRAINPosition: ForwardAge: 15Height: 6-2Hometown BramptonSchool: Ascension of Our Lord Secondary SchoolClub: Mississauga Wolverines

Mulrain is returning to Team Ontario after earning Second Team All-Star honours while winning Nationals with the U15 in 2011 … She had 17 points and 19 rebounds in the championship game … Calls experience at the Nationals amazing, tiring, life-changing … Played at the Ontario Summer Games in 2011 … Toronto Star GTA High School All-Star in 2010 … Wants to study Kinesiology in university and become an athletic therapist … Started playing basketball in grade 6.

KIA NURSE Position: GuardAge: 16Height: 6-0Hometown: HamiltonSchool: St. Thomas MoreClub: Hamilton Transway

Nurse was named Female Ontario Basketball Player of the Year in 2011 … Won gold medals with U15 Team Ontario in 2010 and 2011, winning tournament MVP both times … Named Hazel Miner Award winner in 2011 … Played for Team Canada’s 2011 Cadette U16 team, leading the team in scoring and tying for the lead in assists while winning the bronze medal at the world qualifiers in Mexico … Won five straight OBA Division 1 Championships with Hamilton Transway … Won 2011 OFSAA AAA Championships, leading St. Thomas More with 19 points in the final game … Played in the Hamilton Spectator All-Star Classic in 2011 and 2012 … Honour roll student.

EMMA O’BRIENPosition: Guard-ForwardAge: 16Height: 6-0Hometown: BrockvilleSchool: St. Mary Catholic High SchoolClub: Brockville Blazers

O’Brien is making her first appearance on Team Ontario … First Team LGSSAA All-Star in 2011 … Three-time LGSSAA champion with the St. Mary Crusaders … Went to EOSSA two years in a row with St. Mary … Went to OFSAA with St. Mary in 2011 … Only girl from Kingston tryout to advance past the first round of cuts for Team Ontario, only girl from Eastern Ontario on the team … Played in Ontario Summer Games in 2011 … Aspires to play Division 1 NCAA basketball … Wants to become a lawyer or go into business … Started playing basketball when she was asked to try out for her grade 7 team … Honour roll student.

ASHLEY POLACEK Position: GuardAge: 15Height: 5-4Hometown: OttawaSchool: Louis-RielClub: Gloucester Wolverines

Polacek is a first-time member of Team Ontario … Won OFSAA AAA Championship with Louis-Riel Rebelles in 2010 … Her style as a point guard earns her comparisons to Steve Nash, her favourite player … Wants to be a physiotherapist or a trainer for a basketball team … Started playing basketball at age 10, calls it her getaway.


MACKENZIE PUKLICZ Position: Guard-ForwardAge: 16Height: 5-9Hometown: LondonSchool: St. Thomas AquinasClub: London Ramblers JUEL

Puklicz is playing for Team Ontario for the first time this summer … She appeared in the 2012 JUEL All-Star Game … Started playing basketball in grade two for fun, grade six competitively … Won Athlete of the Year at St. Thomas Aquinas High School … Honour roll student … Aspires to be either a teacher or a doctor because she wants to make a difference and help others ... Favourite basketball player is Blake Griffin.

CHEYANNE ROGER Position: ForwardAge: 17Height: 6-2Hometown: TorontoSchool: Michael Power/St. JosephClub: North Toronto Huskies JUEL

Roger is a returning member of Team Ontario, having competed on the provincial team since 2009 … Won gold with Team Ontario U15 in 2009 and 2010 and again with Team Ontario U17 in 2011 … Played in 2012 JUEL All-Star Game … Made the JUEL All-Defensive Team in 2012 … Won a bronze medal in 2011 with the Cadette U17 in Mexico , calls that her most memorable moment and most important experience … Won the 2012 JUEL Championship with the North Toronto Huskies, leading the league in field goal percentage and blocks … Made it to OFSAA AAAA with Michael Power/St. Joseph in 2010 and 2011 …Wants to be the first Aboriginal player in the WNBA

VICTORIA RAMPADO Position: ForwardAge: 16Height: 6-1Hometown: Niagara FallsSchool: A.N. MyerClub: Niagara Falls Red Raiders

Rampado is a returning member of Team Ontario, having won gold at Nationals last summer with the U15 team … Played in the 2012 JUEL All-Star Game … Finished second at OFSAA AAA Championships with the A.N. Myer Marauders… Verbally committed to attend Niagara University … MVP of 2011 Standard Girls High School Basketball Tournament in 2009 and 2011, while winning both tournaments … Honour roll student … Favourite basketball player is Derrick Rose … Aspires to be a teacher … Started playing basketball in grade four.

MEGAN SMITH Position: GuardAge: 15Height: 6-0Hometown: OrilliaSchool: Eastview S.S. Club: Barrie Royals Juel

Smith’s most memorable basketball moment took place last summer while with U15 Team Ontario, when she counted down the seconds until the final buzzer in Winnipeg from the bench and then ran onto the court as her team won the National Championship … She won an OBA Division 1 gold medal with the Barrie Royals Midget U15 Girls team in 2011 … Went to OFSAA for track and field (discus and shot put) in 2011 … Went to AAAA OFSAA with Eastview Secondary School in 2011 … Honour student … Wants to be a physiotherapist for sports-related injuries … Favourite basketball player is Derrick Rose … Started playing basketball in grade two at Thunderhoops Basketball Camp.

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