Divya Singh
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Divya Singh (born 21 July 1982) is former captain for the India women's national basketball team
. Divya led the Indian women's basketball team at the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games
. She is one of the best women basketballers in India
, known for her game skills, leadership qualities, academic strength and personality. She is currently Studying Sports Management at University of Delaware
, Newark
, Delaware and working as an assistant women's basketball coach for UD.
India women's national basketball team
India women's national basketball team is a national women's national basketball team, from India.-Current roster:The following is the Indian women squad that participated in the 2007 FIBA Asia Basketball Championship Cup at Korea....
. Divya led the Indian women's basketball team at the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games
Commonwealth Games
The Commonwealth Games is an international, multi-sport event involving athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations. The event was first held in 1930 and takes place every four years....
. She is one of the best women basketballers in India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
, known for her game skills, leadership qualities, academic strength and personality. She is currently Studying Sports Management at University of Delaware
University of Delaware
The university is organized into seven colleges:* College of Agriculture and Natural Resources* College of Arts and Sciences* Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics* College of Earth, Ocean and Environment* College of Education and Human Development...
, Newark
Newark, Delaware
Newark is an American city in New Castle County, Delaware, west-southwest of Wilmington. According to the 2010 Census, the population of the city is 31,454. Newark is the home of the University of Delaware.- History :...
, Delaware and working as an assistant women's basketball coach for UD.
International sporting achievements
- 3 to 10 June 2007, IncheonIncheonThe Incheon Metropolitan City is located in northwestern South Korea. The city was home to just 4,700 people when Jemulpo port was built in 1883. Today 2.76 million people live in the city, making it Korea’s third most populous city after Seoul and Busan Metropolitan City...
, South KoreaSouth KoreaThe Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...
· Winner in Pool-B at FIBA Asia Championship for Women - 15 to 26 March 2006, MelbourneMelbourneMelbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...
(AustraliaAustraliaAustralia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
) Commonwealth GamesCommonwealth GamesThe Commonwealth Games is an international, multi-sport event involving athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations. The event was first held in 1930 and takes place every four years....
as captain - 7 to 12 March 2006, AucklandAucklandThe Auckland metropolitan area , in the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest and most populous urban area in the country with residents, percent of the country's population. Auckland also has the largest Polynesian population of any city in the world...
, New ZealandNew ZealandNew Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
Friendly Match Series - 22 to 25 September 2006, PhuketPhuket ProvincePhuket , formerly known as Thalang and, in Western sources, Junk Ceylon , is one of the southern provinces of Thailand...
, ThailandThailandThailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the...
Gold in First Phuket International Invitational Basketball Championship - 13 to 19 January 2005, Sendai, JapanJapanJapan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
Silver in 20th Asian Basketball Confederation Championship for Senior Women - 29 October to 2 November, Kuala LumpurKuala LumpurKuala Lumpur is the capital and the second largest city in Malaysia by population. The city proper, making up an area of , has a population of 1.4 million as of 2010. Greater Kuala Lumpur, also known as the Klang Valley, is an urban agglomeration of 7.2 million...
, Malaysia Bronze in Port DicksonPort DicksonPort Dickson or PD to locals is a beach and holiday destination situated about 32 km from Seremban and 90 km from Kuala Lumpur. It is located in the state of Negeri Sembilan in Peninsular Malaysia...
International Invitational Basketball Championship for Senior Women
Awards and achievements
- 2006 Captain of the Indian Basketball team at Commonwealth GamesCommonwealth GamesThe Commonwealth Games is an international, multi-sport event involving athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations. The event was first held in 1930 and takes place every four years....
MelbourneMelbourneMelbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...
(Australia)
- 2006 Outstanding Player Honour by Udai Pratap Autonomous CollegeUdai Pratap Autonomous CollegeUdai Pratap Autonomous College is an autonomous college of UGC situated in the northwestern part of Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh, India. It spans about of land...
, VaranasiVaranasi-Etymology:The name Varanasi has its origin possibly from the names of the two rivers Varuna and Assi, for the old city lies in the north shores of the Ganga bounded by its two tributaries, the Varuna and the Asi, with the Ganges being to its south...
Old Students’ Association
- 2005 Best Player in 21st Karp Impex Federation Cup Basketball Championship
- 2004 Century Sports Award by Centaury Sports Club
- 2002 Best Player Award in Senior UP State Championship, held at Kanpur
- 2002 Award for outstanding player from Lucknow Basketball association
- 2002 Award as an outstanding player from Vice chancellor of the Benaras Hindu University, Varanasi
National sporting achievement
- Silver Medal in 57th Senior National Basketball Championship 2006-07, JaipurJaipurJaipur , also popularly known as the Pink City, is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Rajasthan. Founded on 18 November 1727 by Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh II, the ruler of Amber, the city today has a population of more than 3.1 million....
, RajasthanRajasthanRājasthān the land of Rajasthanis, , is the largest state of the Republic of India by area. It is located in the northwest of India. It encompasses most of the area of the large, inhospitable Great Indian Desert , which has an edge paralleling the Sutlej-Indus river valley along its border with... - Silver Medal in 22nd Federation Cup Basketball Championship, 2006, Jamshedpur, Jharkhand
- Silver Medal in 56th Senior National Basketball Championship, 2006, Pune, MaharashtraMaharashtraMaharashtra is a state located in India. It is the second most populous after Uttar Pradesh and third largest state by area in India...
- Silver Medal in R.Vaikuntam Cup Basketball Championship for Women, 2005, New DelhiNew DelhiNew Delhi is the capital city of India. It serves as the centre of the Government of India and the Government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi. New Delhi is situated within the metropolis of Delhi. It is one of the nine districts of Delhi Union Territory. The total area of the city is...
- Silver Medal in 21st Karp Impex Federation Cup Basketball Championship, 2005, BhavnagarBhavnagar-Topography:Bhavnagar is a coastal city in the eastern coast of Saurashtra, also known as Kathiawar, located at . It has an average elevation of 24 metres . It occupies area of 53.30 km². General slope dips in the northeasterly direction at the apex of Gulf of Khambhat...
, Gujarat - Silver Medal in 55th Senior National Basketball Championship, 2005, Ludhiana, PunjabPunjab (India)Punjab ) is a state in the northwest of the Republic of India, forming part of the larger Punjab region. The state is bordered by the Indian states of Himachal Pradesh to the east, Haryana to the south and southeast and Rajasthan to the southwest as well as the Pakistani province of Punjab to the...
- Bronze Medal in 20th Federation Cup Basketball Championship, 2003, Vashi, Navi Mumbai
- Gold Medal in 53rd Senior National Basketball Championship, 2003, Hyderabad, AP
Academic
- Elementary Schooling from Rajershi Shishu Vihar, Uday Pratap College, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh
- High SchoolHigh schoolHigh school is a term used in parts of the English speaking world to describe institutions which provide all or part of secondary education. The term is often incorporated into the name of such institutions....
from R.M.K.B.I college, VaranasiVaranasi-Etymology:The name Varanasi has its origin possibly from the names of the two rivers Varuna and Assi, for the old city lies in the north shores of the Ganga bounded by its two tributaries, the Varuna and the Asi, with the Ganges being to its south... - Bachelors in Physical EducationPhysical educationPhysical education or gymnastics is a course taken during primary and secondary education that encourages psychomotor learning in a play or movement exploration setting....
from Banaras Hindu UniversityBanaras Hindu UniversityBanaras Hindu University is a public university located in Varanasi, India and is one of the Central Universities of India. It is the largest residential university in Asia, with over 24,000 students in its campus. BHU was founded in 1916 by Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya under the Parliamentary...
, IndiaIndiaIndia , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world... - Studying Sports Management at University of DelawareUniversity of DelawareThe university is organized into seven colleges:* College of Agriculture and Natural Resources* College of Arts and Sciences* Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics* College of Earth, Ocean and Environment* College of Education and Human Development...
, NewarkNewark, DelawareNewark is an American city in New Castle County, Delaware, west-southwest of Wilmington. According to the 2010 Census, the population of the city is 31,454. Newark is the home of the University of Delaware.- History :...
, Delaware
Family
She comes from a family of basketball players, three of her sisters currently are a member of the Indian India women's national basketball teamIndia women's national basketball team
India women's national basketball team is a national women's national basketball team, from India.-Current roster:The following is the Indian women squad that participated in the 2007 FIBA Asia Basketball Championship Cup at Korea....
- Sister Priyanka Singh (NISNational Institute of SportsFounded in 1961, Netaji Subhas National Institute of Sports or NIS, is Asia's largest Sports Institute located in princely city of Patiala...
BasketballBasketballBasketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
Coach) wife of Manish Kumar (also an NISNational Institute of SportsFounded in 1961, Netaji Subhas National Institute of Sports or NIS, is Asia's largest Sports Institute located in princely city of Patiala...
BasketballBasketballBasketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
Coach) - Sister Prashanti SinghPrashanti SinghPrashanti Singh is a shooting guard for the Indian national women's basketball team. She represented the team at 2006 Commonwealth Games...
(Currently member of India women's national basketball teamIndia women's national basketball teamIndia women's national basketball team is a national women's national basketball team, from India.-Current roster:The following is the Indian women squad that participated in the 2007 FIBA Asia Basketball Championship Cup at Korea....
) - Sister Akanksha SinghAkanksha SinghAkanksha Singh current captain of India Women's National Basketball Team. She is the member of national women team since 2004 to till date. In 2010, Akanksha singh was awarded the Most Valuable Player in India’s first Professional Basketball league, MBPL 2010...
(Currently member of India women's national basketball teamIndia women's national basketball teamIndia women's national basketball team is a national women's national basketball team, from India.-Current roster:The following is the Indian women squad that participated in the 2007 FIBA Asia Basketball Championship Cup at Korea....
) - Sister Pratima SinghPratima SinghPratima Singh started her basketball playing journey in 2003 in Uttar Pradesh.she is a member of the India women's national basketball team. with her skills...
(Currently Captain Junior India women national basketball team) - lovish