CANADA BASKETBALL ROSTERS ANNOUNCED FOR 2018 COMMONWEALTH GAMES TEAMS

Canada Basketball is pleased to announce the men’s and women’s rosters for the upcoming 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia April 4-15, 2018.

Both teams will make their Commonwealth Games debut on Friday, April 6 and fans in Canada can catch all the action streaming live on DAZN.

Canada’s men’s team will open the tournament at 5:30 PM local (3:30 AM ET) against Australia at the Cairns Convention Centre, while the women will face England at 6:30 PM local (4:30 AM ET) from the Townsville Entertainment and Convention Centre. Click here for a complete schedule. 

Last month it was announced that Steve Baur, Assistant Coach with the senior women's national team, will lead the women's team, while University of Manitoba Head Coach Kirby Schepp will be behind the bench on the men's side.

Basketball has only been on the Commonwealth Games program once, at Melbourne 2006 (Canada did not enter teams in the tournament), and Australia won both the men's and women's tournaments at those Games.

The 2018 men's tournament includes four teams in Pool A: Australia, Nigeria, New Zealand and Canada and four teams in Pool B: England, Cameroon, India and Scotland. The Canadian women are also in Pool A, along with Australia, England and Mozambique, while Pool B features New Zealand, Jamaica, India and Malaysia..

In addition to Basketball, Team Canada 2018 will be taking part in 17 sports and 7 para-sports at the Gold Coast Games, with over 260 athletes expected to be named to the team.

MEN’S 2018 COMMONWEALTH GAMES ROSTER

MEN'S 2018 COMMONWEALTH GAMES STAFF

WOMEN’S 2018 COMMONWEALTH GAMES ROSTER

WOMEN'S 2018 COMMONWEALTH GAMES STAFF

QUOTES

“We look forward to optimize this opportunity to further develop athletes in our women’s national team pool against top level competition as well as our staff.” - Denise Dignard, Director of Women's High Performance

“We are excited to have a women’s basketball team participate in this amazing multi-sport major Games and being part of the Canadian delegation at the Commonwealth Games for the first time.” - Steve Baur, Women’s Head Coach

“Having the opportunity to represent Canada is always a tremendous honour and to do so at the 2018 Commonwealth Games will be a great experience for our USPORTS players.” – Kirby Schepp, Men’s Head Coach

"With both the men's and women's teams ranked second in the Commonwealth, this strong group of athletes will surely contend for a medal.  We look forward to having basketball back at the Commonwealth Games in 2018, with Canada making its debut at these Games." - Chef de Mission Claire Carver-Dias

ABOUT COMMONWEALTH GAMES CANADA

Commonwealth Games Canada (CGC) is the international franchise holder for the Commonwealth Games and Commonwealth movement in Canada, and an active, contributing member of the Canadian sport community. The mission of CGC is to strengthen sport within Canada and throughout the Commonwealth by participating in the Commonwealth Games and by using sport as a development tool. Visit www.commonwealthgames.ca for information.

ABOUT CANADA BASKETBALL

Canada Basketball is the National Sporting Organization for the sport of Basketball in Canada. Canada Basketball is respected worldwide and is recognized by the International Amateur Basketball Federation (FIBA) and the Government of Canada as the sole governing body of the sport of amateur basketball in Canada. Canada Basketball, a not-for-profit organization, represents all basketball interests, provides leadership, coordination and direction in all areas of the sport of basketball.

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For more information, please contact:

Matt Walker
Manager, Communications
Email: mwalker@basketball.ca