2011 WOMEN'S NATIONAL TEAM OPEN ID SEESION

Canada Basketball’s Women’s Elite Performance Program (WEPP) will hold National Open Identification Sessions this year for athletes wishing to be seen by the women’s national team program and national coaches. The sessions are geared to athletes who have international potential and are eligible for the 2011 Junior Women’s National Team (JWNT) and Development Women’s National Team (DWNT) programs.

Please note that this identification session is an additional activity to the overall, currently existing women’s national team talent identification system and process, which includes assessment of athletes within national team program activities, national and/or provincial elite performance program activities, and tracking of athletes in schools and/or clubs.

One National Open Identification Session will be held in Ontario and the other in British Columbia. Athletes are only required to attend one of the two sessions (see details below).

Eligibility Details:
Please note that to be eligible to participate in international competition for any Canadian women’s national teams, an athlete must be a Canadian citizen and that citizenship must be authorized by a valid Canadian passport.

2011 JWNT:
- Athletes eligible for the 2011 JWNT must be born in 1992 or later.

2011 DWNT:
- Athletes eligible for the 2011 DWNT must be no less than 17 and no more than 25 years of age on January 1st of the year of the Universiade (FISU Games). For the 2011 FISU Games, athletes must be born between Jan. 1, 1987 and Dec. 31, 1993.

Athletes must be:
a. A student who is registered for and pursuing a full program of study leading towards a degree or diploma at a post-secondary institution. Status must be authorized by a document from the registrar of the institution. Post-secondary institutions include community colleges, professional schools, technical schools, C.E.G.E.P. and universities, in Canada or outside of Canada.

Or:
b. A former student who has graduated from a post-secondary institution as a student in good standing, in the year preceding the event.
*Graduation must be authorized by a document from the registrar of the institution.

Eligible athletes interested in participating in the 2011 WNTP ‘Open ID’ must pre-register.

Please complete the attached Profile Form and Insurance Form and return via fax to 416.614.9570 or electronically to epintern@basketball.ca no later than Tuesday, May 24 at 6 p.m. ET

Location #1:
East Coast
University of Toronto
55 Harbord St. Toronto, Ont., M5S 2W6
Open ID Date: Friday, May 27, 2011
Times: 6:00-9:00 p.m.

OR

Location #2:
West Coast
Terry Fox Secondary School
1260 Riverwood Gate, Port Coquitlam, B.C., V3B 7Z5
Open ID Date: Thursday, May 26, 2011
Times: 6:00-9:00 p.m.

Please note that all costs to attend and participate in the ‘Open ID session’ are the athletes’ responsibility.

Please check-in for registration outside the gym starting at 5 p.m. and no later than 5:30 p.m.