(Photo: FIBA)

She’s won a provincial high school championship and a bronze medal in the last six months, but 16-year-old Winnipeg basketball player Emily Potter says not even victories of that magnitude could top the moment when she found out she would be wearing the Maple Leaf.

“Making the national (U17) team was the best day of my life,” said Potter.

“Everything I had done for the past year, I had done with motivation of making the team.”

That team was the Canadian cadette women’s team that recently came back from the FIBA U17 world championships in Amsterdam with a bronze medal. And it was the six-foot-five forward/centre Potter who played a huge role in the third-place victory, striking for a team-leading 17 points and 11 rebounds in an 84-77 win over Japan. Canada trailed by 11 points at halftime.

To read the entire article by Kevin Hirschfield from the Winnipeg Sun, click here.

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