Club players busy on international duty

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The next few weeks sees many of our Club players busy on international duty, so here is a round up of who is where!

 Scotland Senior Men

Simon, Garreth and Lee are all headed off to Gibraltar on Saturday with Scotland Senior Men for the European Championship for Small Countries.

Scotland are in Group B with Malta and Wales and their first game is against Malta on Monday 7th July at 16:15 (local time) then Wales on Tuesday 8th at 16:30.

All the details of the tournament can be found here and you can also follow the team on Facebook.

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Scotland Senior Women

With Emma, Rose, Leanne and Hannah all unavailable due to other committments the Kats presence in the Scotland Senior Women team is limited to Sarah and ex-Kats Becca Allison and Kathryn Taylor in the European Championship for Small Countries in Austria.

Head coach Ben is ably assisted by Brian and Tracey. Scotland are in Group B and their first game is on 14th July against Azerbaijan.

All the details of the tournament can be found here and you can also follow the team on Facebook.

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GB u20 Women 

Of course Hannah is currently in Bulgaria with the GB u20 women playing in the U20 European Championship Division B.

They have already had their first game and victory against Norway on 3rd July and will face Lithuania on Friday 4th July.

All the details of tournament can be found here and you can follow GB Basketball on Facebook and Twitter.

 

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GB u20 Men

Ex-Kings player Grant Mackay has been selected for the GB u20 men and will be playing in the U20 European Championship Division A in Crete.

They are in Group A and their first game is against Latvia on Tuesday 8th July at 21:15 local time. You can see all the details of the tournament here.

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Scotland U18 Men

The Scotland u18 men will be competing in the U18 European Championship Divison B in Bulgaria.

The Club are well represented with Findlay, Doug, Sam, Kieran and ex-Kings player Gregor all making the final
squad.

The coaching team is Doug, Jim, Craig and Amy as team manager. The team are in Group A and their first game will be on 24th July at 18:15 local time.

You will find all the details of the tournament here and and you can follow the team on Facebook and Twitter.

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Scotland U18 Women

Shannon, Elspeth and Rowan all made the Scotland U18 women's team who competed in the Home Internationals and in Denmark Tour. In Denmark they had 2 wins and one loss. In the Home Internationals they had one win and a loss against England.

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The under 16s men are competing in the U16 European Championship Division B in Macedonia on 20th - 30h August, so more of them nearer the time!

Lee Reilly in Japan

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Below are some pictures of Lee Reilly on the Gotha pre-season trip to Japan.

The German club was in Japan to promote the launch of Oettinger Beer (Gotha's main sponsor). The game was played against Sendai 89ers and was in aid of Fukishima.

Hope you enjoy the pictures!

GB U20 Men Training Camp

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City of Edinburgh Basketball Club will be well represented at this year's initial Training Camp for this summer's GB under 20's European campaign.

Alongside ex-Kings players, Grant McKay and Matt Wilcox, our Junior Men's coach Jim Wright has been invited along on the coaching side. Grant and Matt, both Scotland National Squad players, are hoping to make the final 12 to participate in Euro B this summer.

They are following in some big footsteps of previous COE players to trial and play for GB 20's including current Senior players Garreth Lodge, Lee Reilly and Sarah O'Brien.

Coincidentally, the Head Coach is Doug Leichner who has coached previous Scottish u18 player Ali Fraser at the University of Maine.

Another Scot Doug Bennett who played u18 Men in 2011 is also invited to Camp, which will select a training squad, which will be further whittled down to the 12 selected to go to the tournament.

GB Women v Germany May 26, 2013

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Watch the game here...

If the video is not displaying in your browser, you can also view it here.

Gregor bound for Sydney

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As you may have already heard, our very own Gregor Gray has been selected to represent Team GB at the 2013 Australian Youth Olympic Festival in Sydney.

Gregor, who plays for the U18 Mens team, will be competing in the Basketball 3×3 discipline in Australia.

The competition takes place between the 17th and 20th of January 2013 and he is to be joined by another Edinburgh based player - Malcolm Winning of Boroughmuir Blaze.

Many congratulations to both players on this fantastic achievement!

Below is a copy of an article about Gregor that is taken from the basketballscotland website.

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Meet Gregor…

Gregor Gray is an up-and-coming basketball player who has been re-selected to represent Scotland at under 18 level in 2013. Gregor, who attends North Berwick High School, was a key player in the Edinburgh Kings Cadets unbeaten season last year – leading his team to league, Scottish Cup and playoff victories. After an impressive club season he represented Scotland in the European Championships at under 16s and under 18s level. At Euro C in 2012, Scotland U16s came away with a 2nd place finish after being beaten in a close final against Monaco. Gregor’s individual performance was recognised by the organisers as he made the all star tournament team.

• How did you first start playing basketball?
  I first started playing when I joined North Berwick Basketball Club, East Lothian with Coach Marie Caie.
• When was this?
  I was age 9 and in P5 at Law Primary School, North Berwick. Later in S1, I was selected to East Lothian’s Performance Athletes in Schools Programme. My great coach for many years was Stevie Duff.
• Who inspires you?
  I was certainly inspired by my former and present coaches – Jim Wright and Doug Reilly. I am inspired by the great players ahead of me – two brothers from my home town of North Berwick – Ali and Grant Mackay both out in the States and by senior men Kings players who have represented Scotland and GB.
• What do you feel is your main strength as a basketball player?
  My height and core strength help a lot. I feel my main strengths are my focus and stamina and I work a lot on my stamina at strength and conditioning sessions through PAis and at City of Edinburgh Kings.
• What do you feel you could improve about your game?
  Everything. In particular my speed and ball handling and certainly, according to my coach, my shooting! There’s a very long way to go.
• How does it feel to be selected for the under 18 national squad?
  It feels great to be selected and with a big group of other 1996 players from last years u16 squad – it’s even better. I was very fortunate to get the opportunity to play in the u18 national team last summer in Sarajevo – it’s a huge, huge step up from Euro C. It was a very steep learning curve and very intense. I enjoyed every minute of it. The opportunity to watch other teams’ style of play was invaluable as was the experience of playing much tougher competition.

Scotland U18s race night‏

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The Scotland U18 women and U18 men are hosting a race night fundraiser at Boroughmuir Rugby Club this Friday 6 July 2012.

Please see attached flyer for further information - we hope you can come along to lend your support.

From the Club's perspective we have Matt Wilcox, Neil Rowan and Gregor Gray on the men’s side and Kirsten Simpson and Hannah Peacock for the women.

Please contact Hazel Wood or Amy Morgan for tickets...

Summer Internationals 2012

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Here's a great shot of Findlay Wood and Liam Mackle representing Scotland U15M in Copenhagen, just a few days ago.

You can check out the full tournament details on the Copenhagen Invitational 2012 website.

If you have any photos of Club players representing Scotland over the summer, please email them, along with the player, team and competition details to Alan at alanrwhyte@hotmail.com so we can showcase them on the website.

GB Women v Canada

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The Club's Only Girls Allowed programme culminated in the GB Women's game against Canada at Meadowbank on Saturday 9th May and what a great game it was!

The girls cheered themselves hoarse cheering for ex-Kool Kat Rose Anderson as the GB Women won 70-54. Much to the girls' delight Rose came over to chat and have some photos taken at the end.

Cadet Internationalists

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Congratulations to Rian Neill, Gregor Gray, Kieran McAdam and Sam McArthur who have all made the Scotland U16 final team for the FIBA Euro Championships in Gibraltar on 23rd-29th July 2012.

You can follow the competition on the FIBA website. Good luck guys!

Club players in Gothenburg‏

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Some of our Club players have taken part in their first competitive games for Scotland as they travelled with the U12s and U13s to take part in a tournament in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Sean Nealon-Lino and Alexander Ferguson played for the U13 boys and were narrowly beaten in the semi-final. Owen Mackle was playing for the U12 boys and Tia Davies and Niamh Mackle were playing for the U12 girls.

Although there was no final for the U12 competition both teams had an excellent tournament with all our players performing well. Owen also took home the free throw competition trophy with an impressive 5 from 6.

Well done to everyone!

U18 Kings in Manchester

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Three of the current Kings Junior Men's squad - Matthew Wilcox, Neil Rowan and Gregor Gray - are representing Scotland at U18 level this Christmas in Manchester.

Click here to follow the team's progress at the annual Haris Tournament at the Amaechi Center.

National Team Selection

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Good luck to all our club members who are involved in the final stages of the National Team selection process at the weekend!

We look forward to reporting on your progress over the coming weeks.

U16 Kats make top 20

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Congratulations to Shannon Purves and Abbie Wheeler who have made it through to the top 20 U16 Scotland trials. Good luck for 19th November, where the final selection will be made for the squad to represent Scotland at the Euro C championships next year.

Further details have been published by basketballScotland.

Kings Junior goes stateside

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Kings Junior Men player Grant Mackay has embarked on a prestigious basketball scholarship to the United States.

With a choice of two offers, the 17-year-old North Berwick player has accepted a place at a top US prep school - The Hun School of Princeton - situated in New Jersey.

Visit the East Lothian Courier for the full article.

GB under-20 European Championships

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Follow the men's European Championship Division B tournament in Bosnia on www.fibaeurope.com. The games can be followed live via the links on the right hand side of the FIBA homepage.

The GB mens team, opened their campaign today (Thursday 14th) with a game against Portugal, before facing Finland, Luxembourg, Norway and Czech Republic and full results can be found here.

The GB womens team have also been in action and made history by reaching the quarter finals yesterday in their U20 Division A European Championships, in Serbia. Full results can be found here.

Good luck to current King's player Lee Reilly and ex-players Ali MacKay and Rebecca Allison who are all taking part.

Scotland u18 Men Team Photo

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Several Kings Junior Men players have recently been involved in the Scotland U18 squad, including Grant Mackay, Niall Mackle, Ross Paterson, Jamie Malcolm and Matthew Wilcox.

Details of their games against Norway at the weekend can be found here.

Scotland U18 Men at Portobello this weekend

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This weekend sees international basketball coming to Portobello High! The Scotland U18 men's team is involved in a series of games against opposition including Merseyside Tigers from Liverpool.

Several Kings Junior Men players feature in the squad, including Grant Mackay, Niall Mackle, Ross Paterson, Jamie Malcolm and Matthew Wilcox, so please come along to give your support. Full details of tip-off times are below:

Saturday 2 July

• 13:00 - Scotland v City of Edinburgh Lothian League Men
• 15:00 - Merseyside Tigers v City of Edinburgh Lothian League Men
• 17:00 - Merseyside Tigers v Scotland

Sunday 3 July

• 12:00 - Scotland v Merseyside Tigers
• 14:00 - Merseyside Tigers v tbc

Click for here for a profile of Niall Mackle, due to captain the Scotland U18 team this weekend.

Kings Players make GB U20s Final Roster

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Congratulations to current Senior Men team member Lee Reilly and ex-player Ali Mackay, who have both been included in the final squad for the Great Britain U20 team for the upcoming European Championships.

Full Under-20 Men's GB squad details can be found here.

Kings boys help Scotland u15s to second place in Copenhagen tournament

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Pictured above are the Kings boys who featured in the Scotland U15 team who had a fantastic tournament in Copenhagen with only one defeat in the whole tournament (and that was by 3 points in over time!). They took second place in the tournament, for more details, click here for the tournament website (note the U15s played in the U14 section and the U16s played in the U15 section.)

Congratulations to Neil Rowan as well who as part of the U16 team also finished as runners up.

Thanks to Joe McAdam for the photo.

Club players help Scotland U14s to victory

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Club players Liam Mackle, Findlay Wood, Amy Fraser and Eilidh McClure were part of the Scotland under-14 teams who emerged undefeated from 2 games against Northern Ireland in Belfast at the weekend.