Akanksha Singh

Akanksha Singh
Position Small forward/Point guard
Career International: 2003–present
Height 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)
Weight 58 Kg
Nationality India Indian
Born (1989-09-07) September 7, 1989
Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India

Akanksha Singh (born 7 September 1989) is the current captain of India Women's National Basketball Team. She is the member of national women team since 2004 to till date.

She belongs to Varanasi's famous.[1] Her sisters Divya, Prashanti, and Pratima, have represented Indian National Women's Basketball Team. Another sister Priyanka Singh is an National Institute of Sports basketball coach. Together they are also known as singh sisters.[2]

Playing career

In 2010, Akanksha was awarded the Most Valuable Player in India’s first Professional Basketball league, MBPL 2010. Her name then, went on to be forever cemented in the Indian Basketball history books as one of the first ever Top Four Players to achieve the "A Grade" from the Basketball Federation of India sponsored by IMG Reliance. Popularly called by the name of small wonder in Basketball.[3]

She is very agile and one of the very skilled ball handlers of the country right now. She has been awarded Best Player in many national and state championships. In her captaincy at University of Delhi she won a gold medal in All India University basketball championship at Nallor, where she was given joint best player award along with her sister Pratima Singh.

Family

She comes from a family of basketball players; three of her sisters currently are a member of the India Women's National Basketball Team

Awards and achievement

International sporting achievement

References

  1. ↑ Basketball Family
  2. ↑ Singh Sisters
  3. ↑ small wonder in basketball

External links

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