March is synonymous with basketball. If you haven’t noticed, you’re not watching hard enough for the madness.
The NCAA tournament fills the TV screens, and this week, the bouncing roundball is filling gyms across the Nanaimo-Ladysmith region as 1,200 players on 91 teams from across the province have converged for the Junior All-Native Tournament. The annual tournament, featuring U-17 and U-13 boys’ and girls’ divisions, rotates around the province. The tournament started in 1960 and the 2022 event was held in Kelowna.
The Snuneymuxw Nation is perhaps best known over the years in sports for its Native Sons soccer teams. But basketball has long been a staple as well, as part of an overall hoops history in the region, which has produced the likes of two-time Olympian and four-time UVic Vikes national-champion Gerald Kazanowski out of Nanaimo District Secondary. Three area high schools this month made their semifinals at the B.C.
“The biggest challenge in this tournament is to pull together players from a bunch of different [school or club] teams and getting them to gel and come together in a very short time frame.” “This has been a very important competition and promotes health and wellness to our young people while they meet players from other nations across the province they might otherwise not have met,” said Wyse.
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