The upcoming European Championship is missed by two team leaders – Elena Levchenko and Anastasia Veremeenko. The away team includes both experienced and young players. For the first time at the European Championship, point guard Alex Maria Bentley will play for Belarus.
The coaching staff of the women's national basketball team of Belarus named the squad for the European Championship
June 13, Minsk / Corr. BELTA/. The coaching staff of the women's national basketball team of Belarus has named the squad for the European Championship, which will be held in the Czech Republic on June 16-25, BelTA learned from the press service of the Belarusian Basketball Federation.
Today, in the sports complex Tsmoki-Minsk, Natalia Trofimova's wards had a final training session before leaving for the continental forum. The coaching staff chose the following players:
defenders: Olga Zyuzkova, Alex Bentley, Alena Golubeva, Yulia Rytikova;
forwards: Tatyana Likhtarovich, Ekaterina Snytina, Maria Popova, Maria Filonchik, Yanina Inkina;
centers: Victoria Gasper, Marina Kress, Marina Ivashchenko.
The upcoming European Championship is missed by two team leaders – Elena Levchenko and Anastasia Veremeenko. The away team includes both experienced and young players. For the first time at the European Championship, point guard Alex Maria Bentley will play for Belarus.
Belarusian basketball players at the preliminary stage will perform at EuroBasket 2017 in group B. The matches will be held in Hradec-Králové. The tournament for Natalia Trofimova's wards starts on June 16 with the Italian team (14.30). The next day, June 17, there will be a meeting with Slovakia (14.30), and the group stage will end on June 19 with a game with the Turkish team (17.00).
The winner of the quartet will get a ticket to the 1/4 finals. The teams that will take second and third places will play playoff matches with squads from group A (Ukraine, Czech Republic, Hungary, Spain).
Earlier, the women's basketball team of Belarus took part in the final stage of the European Championship five times and achieved the highest result in 2007 – third place.-0-
