{"id":278646,"date":"2018-06-22T06:00:46","date_gmt":"2018-06-21T20:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=278646"},"modified":"2018-06-22T06:00:46","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T20:00:46","slug":"rangamar-to-represent-cnmi-in-basketball-youth-seminar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/rangamar-to-represent-cnmi-in-basketball-youth-seminar\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangamar to represent CNMI in basketball youth seminar"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_278647\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-278647\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/FIBApix.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-278647\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lia Rangamar, seen here picking up a loose ball down the baseline during the GSM Lady Ol\u2019Aces and CTSI\u2019s title game in the TanHoldings caging early this year at the Gillette Multipurpose Gymnasium, will represent the CNMI in a basketball seminar in Singapore. (Roselyn B. Monroyo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The CNMI\u2019s Lia Rangamar will be participating in the IBF Youth Leadership Seminar that will be held in Singapore this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The June 22-25 seminar is organized by FIBA\u2019s Foundation, the International Basketball Foundation. Fourteen other representatives from South East Asia and the Pacific region will join the event.<\/p>\n<p>The seminar\u2019s participants will undergo an intensive leadership training, with the goal of delivering a FIBA-sanctioned U18 mixed national 3&#215;3 tournament in their respective countries.<\/p>\n<p>Each individual will be educated on the intricacies of presiding over a FIBA-sanctioned 3X3 tourney. FIBA will fully support and fund the U18 3&#215;3 mixed tournament in preparation for the Youth Leaders Basketball Cup.<\/p>\n<p>The national tournaments will be the official qualifiers for the Youth Leaders Basketball Cup set from Sept. 7 to 10 this year in Bali, Indonesia, and the winning teams will represent their country in the final tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The seminar will be supervised by Mthoko Madonda, the former captain of the South African Basketball national team and founder of Reach Sports Management. Madonda supervised the IBF 3&#215;3 Young Lions Cup in Antilles last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are excited to be working with IBF on the Youth Leadership Cup again. We are looking forward to meeting 15 amazing youth leaders from South East Asia and the Pacific and providing them with leadership and basketball for good training,\u201d said Mthoko.<\/p>\n<p>Joining Rangamar in the seminar are Indonesia\u2019s, Laurentius Oei, Singapore\u2019s Wan Qing Chin, Brunei\u2019s Ruby Ang, Malaysia\u2019s Zhong Shin Thea, Cambodia\u2019s Sunleang Dy, Myanmar\u2019s Min Zin Thun, Thailand\u2019s Pornutcha Sawatong, Vietnam\u2019s Lam Quach Trung, Papua New Guinea\u2019s Anderson Hewe, the Philippines\u2019 Amanda Alejandrino, Guam\u2019s Kali Benavent, Laos\u2019 Vontavanh Kompadith, Timor Leste\u2019s Virinia Da Cruz, and Fiji\u2019s Tiyana Kainamoli. <strong>(PR)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CNMI\u2019s Lia Rangamar will be participating in the IBF Youth Leadership Seminar that will&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":278647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[11927,21674,745,21675],"class_list":["post-278646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-fiba","tag-international-basketball-foundation","tag-singapore","tag-south-east-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}