Oceania - Guam to host FIBA Oceania youth caging in 2008
Guam will host the 2008 FIBA Oceania Under-19 Youth Basketball Tournament, which will take place from July 12 to 20. Details of the weeklong tournament are being finalized like the logo and venue for the basketball games.
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Guam will host the 2008 FIBA Oceania Under-19 Youth Basketball Tournament, which will take place from July 12 to 20.
Details of the weeklong tournament are being finalized like the logo and venue for the basketball games.
Eight teams each in the men's and women's divisions will be allowed to join in the tournament. Each team is limited to 13 members only composed of 10 players, one coach, one manager, and one referee.
If a participating country fields teams in both divisions, they are entitled to bring in an additional person as head of their delegation.
Host Guam will provide accommodation, transport going to and from the hotels and game venue, and meals for all the teams from July 11 to July 21.
Teams need to have a qualified and experienced referee in order to be accepted in the tournament.
Top performers and best players in the tournament will be selected to become members of the Oceania men's and women's All-Star teams that will join the Australian Under-18 National Championships in February 2009. All-Star coaches and referees will also be selected in the Guam competition.
Players who are qualified to join the Under-19 youth tournament are those born starting Jan. 1, 1989. Australia and New Zealand will also be competing in the Guam tournament.
Aside from Guam, American Samoa, Fiji, and Samoa also bid to host the 2008 FIBA Oceania Under-19 Youth Basketball Tournament.
The 2008 FIBA Oceania Youth Tournament will be the 7th edition of the event, which began in 1997 in Fiji. New Caledonia (1998), Vanuatu (200), Tonga (20002), Australia (2004), and New Zealand (2006) also hosted the tournament.
Teams from the Pacific Island nations earn the chance of playing against Australia and New Zealand in an international competition in the tournament, which is being used as a gauge on the progress of their basketball programs.
Training sessions, seminars, and clinics for players, coaches, referees, and basketball administrators will also be held during the tournament to continue further FIBA's Oceania basketball development program.
Most of the national men's team players and coaches of the FIBA member federations were products of this program.