It's full steam ahead for your Junior Griffith Basketballer Timeeka Coleman as she prepares for the National Championships that will be played in Perth during July.
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Timeeka will line up in her under 16's women's NSW country strip and help take on the other states around Australia in the coveted event.
It has been a long journey to gain selection into the under 16's Country side with countless hours on and off the court fine-tuning her skills to make it into the side.
Over the past number of years, Timeeka has represented at several levels of the game in her pathway to the country side.
The Local junior has been an active member of the local junior association as a player, coaching and official helping out other junior players with their games each Monday and Thursday afternoon.
In 2019 Timeeka attend the Australian Junior Basketball Cup in Albury.
This event showcases the talent in each state of Australia, New Zealand and Pacific Island sides as they come together each January.
From this event, Timeeka was selected in the touring Australian country cup side that toured NZ in a tournament over the Easter weekend.
Timmeka has been a part of the BNSW representative pathway program by being selected in all the camps and trials needed to get her on her way to a state selection.
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In 2020 Timeeka was selected to attend the Southern Cross tournament in Melbourne as part of the country program. Timeeka has also represented at the school level representing the NSW PSSA side in year 6, where she attended the school's tournament in Darwin.
Currently, Timeeka is a member of the Griffith under 16 women's Demons side that is going to see the girls head to Bathurst in June for the finals for the Western Junior League.
Timeeka, along with two other athletes Timeeka O'Rouke from Leeton and Zoe Hutchinson, train every Wednesday in the State performance program (SPP) at the West End Stadium.
This program will help build Timeeka's strengths needed to improve her game in readiness for the Australian Championships.
Timeeka possesses a very good shooting game and is more than mobile around the court which will help her with her endeavours representing the Country Basketball side for 2021.
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Liam Warren
As someone with an underlying passion about sport it is a privilege to report on the sporting landscape around the MIA
As someone with an underlying passion about sport it is a privilege to report on the sporting landscape around the MIA
