Pita Sowakula will join siblings Milika Koyamainavure and Mataika Koyamainavure at Iowa Central Community College next year. Fiji Basketball development officer Laisiasa Puamau confirmed the news yesterday. Pita Gus has been scouted by Iowa Central Community College and will be joining the school next year, Puamau said. "Its all thanks to the brilliant performance displayed last season by Mili and Mataika. The Tavuki, Kadavu native was surprised to hear the good news and knows he has to continue working hard. Im very happy about this opportunity and my aim now is to go out there and lift my performance to another level,he said. I will be learning a lot of new things and develop my skills. Puamau says this is a good opportunity for the former Central College Lautoka student to eye professional level and join Valerie Nainima who is currently playing in Germany and Letava Whippy who is in New York. He is natural built for the sport, this is a good opportunity for him,Puamau said. He is a very good player, has the skills and should impress. We identified him as a scholarship contender in the last two years following his performance in the national and schools competitions. The 20-year old made his first international debut during the FIBA U19 competition in Australia in 2012 and was also selected to be part of the Oceania All Stars and the Oceania Open team in the same year. Gus was also a member of the national team to the FIBA Oceania Championship in New Zealand last year where he was also awarded the best player of the tournament. We thank Lautoka Basketball for identifying and developing him and getting him to where he is today. Courtesy of: thefijisun.com
Samoa wins gold - 6 months ago
POSTED BY:
EUROBASKET NEWS
follow us on
FIJI under-18 basketball men's team lost to Samoa 57-61 in the gold medal match of the B division in the 2016 International Basketball Federation Oceania U18 Championship yesterday. The match was played at the Vodafone Arena in Suva. Fiji led 18-9 at the end of the first quarter before Samoa came back in the other three quarters winning 15-13, 17-11 and 20-15. Excited Samoa coach Woolley Le'au'anae said Fiji made them work hard. "We tried hard and kept going in the match," he said. "The p... [read more]
FIJI under-18 basketball men's team lost to Samoa 57-61 in the gold medal match of the B division in the 2016 International Basketball Federation Oceania U18 Championship yesterday. The match was played at the Vodafone Arena in Suva. Fiji led 18-9 at the end of the first quarter before Samoa came back in the other three quarters winning 15-13, 17-11 and 20-15. Excited Samoa coach Woolley Le'au'anae said Fiji made them work hard. "We tried hard and kept going in the match," he said. "The players stepped up on their defence and dominated on the outside. "I told the players to tighten in defence and play keep attacking the Fijian defence." Nippy Collin Lal was instrumental for Fiji as he made some good moves and breaks in the game. He scored 14 points and had five assists and said: "Fiji was a good team and had a good shape and defence. "The game could have gone the other way if we had not stepped up." Fiji team officials said they would make a press release on the game report but there were no report sent when this article when to press. Meanwhile, Fiji U18 women's team defeated Tahiti 71-37 in the division B gold medal match. Courtesy of: fijitimes.com
Cheshire Phoenix (BBL) inked 22-year old Fijian international forward Joshua Fox (198-95kg-94). He just graduated from Cal-Davis (NCAA). In 28 games he recorded 14.8ppg, 6.8rpg, 2.1apg and 1.1spg last season. A very good year in his career as he was voted to All-Big West 2nd Team. As mentioned above Fox is just out of the college and it will be his first season in pro basketball. Among other achievements his team won Big West Regular Season in 2015. Fox received also All-Big West Sixth Pl... [read more]
Cheshire Phoenix (BBL) inked 22-year old Fijian international forward Joshua Fox (198-95kg-94). He just graduated from Cal-Davis (NCAA). In 28 games he recorded 14.8ppg, 6.8rpg, 2.1apg and 1.1spg last season. A very good year in his career as he was voted to All-Big West 2nd Team. As mentioned above Fox is just out of the college and it will be his first season in pro basketball. Among other achievements his team won Big West Regular Season in 2015. Fox received also All-Big West Sixth Player of the Year award in 2015 at his college time. Fox represented Fiji at the Pacific Games in Port Moresby (Papua New Guinea) last year.
Copyright (c) 1998-2017 Eurobasket Inc. Disclaimer
WARNING:
Do not copy, redistribute, publish or otherwise exploit information that you download from the site !
Do not encumber, license, modify, publish, sell, transfer or transmit, or in any way exploit, any of the
content of the site, nor will you attempt to do so.
