Preeti Kumari 7

Friday – January 24th, 2014 India  110  45 Macau China Final. India Win. FINAL India  39  68  86  110  110 Macau China  10  22  31  45  45     Following the men’s team’s comfortable win yesterday, Indian women followed suit with a lopsided victory over Macau China. There are four women’s teams at this edition’s […]

This profile was originally published in Tadpoles magazine and can be accessed here.  “Humaari bitiya basketball nahi khelegi” (our little girl won’t play basketball), Basant Singh Yadav said categorically, when he heard of his second daughter’s curious new affliction. “Kyun nahi, use pasand hai” (why not, she loves it!) retorted Anita Devi, the better half. […]

Kochi, 31th May 2014: Defending champions Chhattisgarh junior women sleepwalked their way into the semifinals with a lopsided 119-61 victory over Delhi. Also making it to the semifinals is the Uttar Pradesh jr women’s team which registered an inspired 67-65 victory over Maharashtra despite its star player Preeti Kumari sitting out for half the match […]

Kochi, 1st June 2014: In an identical rematch of last year’s finals, both in the junior men’s and women’s section, defending champions Chhattisgarh girls and Delhi boys will be pitted yet again against Kerala and Punjab respectively in this year’s finale of the 65th National Basketball Championship for Junior Men and Women 2014. Earlier this […]

Two high quality matches were witnessed on day two of the 64th Junior National Basketball Championship underway in Cuttack, Odisha. The Uttar Pradesh girls’ team bounced back from a loss to Chhattisgarh on the opening day to script an unlikely win over the always formidable Tamil Nadu squad. The diminutive point guard of UP, Preeti Kumari, who at […]