This year, Canada Basketball’s Women’s High Performance Program will hold National Open Identification Sessions for athletes wishing to be seen by the women’s national team program and national coaches. The sessions are geared for athletes having international potential who are eligible for the 2015 Junior Women’s National Team (JWNT) and 2015 Development Women’s National Team (DWNT) programs.

Please note that this identification session is being added as an additional activity to the overall, currently existing, women’s national team talent identification system and process that is in place which includes assessment of athletes within national team program activities, national and/or provincial elite performance program activities, and tracking of athletes in schools and/or clubs.

One National Open Identification session will be held in Ontario and the other in British Columbia. Athletes are only required to attend one of the two sessions.

Information for the Open ID sessions are listed below:

Location #1:
East Coast
Goldring Centre, University of Toronto
100 Devonshire Place, Toronto, ON, M5S 2C9
Open ID Date: Friday, May 8, 2015
Times: 6:00-10:00pm

OR

Location #2:
West Coast
Terry Fox Secondary School
1260 Riverwood Gate, Port Coquitlam, BC, V3B 7Z5
Open ID Date: Saturday May 9, 2015
Times: 10am-2pm

Please note that to be eligible to participate in international competition for any Canadian women’s national teams, all athletes must be a Canadian citizen and that citizenship must be authorized by a valid Canadian passport. Athletes eligible for the 2015 JWNT must be born in 1996 or later. Athletes eligible for the 2015 DWNT must be 17-25 years of age and pursuing a full programme of study leading towards a degree or diploma at a post-secondary institution.

Eligible athletes interested in participating in the 2015 WNTP ‘Open ID’ must pre-register.
Please complete the attached Registration and Insurance form and return via fax at (416) 614-9570 or electronically to womenhp@basketball.ca no later than Thursday, April 30, 2015 at 6:00pm.

Please note that all costs to attend and participate in the ‘Open ID session’ are the athletes’ responsibility. Athletes are also responsible for their insurance to participate.

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