{"id":404940,"date":"2024-01-05T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-05T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=404940"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"Nat-l-hoops-program-pre-tryout-meeting-this-Saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/Nat-l-hoops-program-pre-tryout-meeting-this-Saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"Nat\u2019l hoops program pre-tryout meeting this Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Northern Mariana Islands Basketball Federation is holding a pre-tryout meeting for those interested to be part of the senior national basketball program this Saturday, Jan. 6, at the Gilbert C. Ada Gymnasium.<\/p>\n<p>Meeting for those interested to be a part of the women\u2019s team is from 9am-10am, and for men it\u2019s from 10am to 11am.<\/p>\n<p>Tryouts for the teams are set for Jan. 9-13. The Top 20 or 15 players will be selected after the tryouts.<\/p>\n<p>Players selected will make up the teams that will compete in the 2024 Micronesian Games from June 15-24 in the Marshall Islands.<\/p>\n<p>From Jan. 16 to March 31, the pre-season training will commence and will be focused on team plays along with conditioning and skills. A roster of 12 or 15 players will be announced on March 2.<\/p>\n<p>Then, tentatively from April 4-7, the players will see action in the University of Guam Friendship Tournament in Guam. After, the players will undergo a three-month on-season training phase from April 8 to June 14.<\/p>\n<p>The selection of the 12-man roster will be held on May 25. From the beginning of the tryouts, the teams have a total of five months to prepare for the Micronesian Games.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/e86a9ccbef23699ea09cf901fbe875eb.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>The Northern Mariana Islands Basketball Federation is holding a pre-tryout meeting for their senior national program this Saturday at the Gilbert C. Ada Gymnasium. Those selected will make up the men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s teams that will be competing in the 2024 Micronesian Games in the Marshall Islands.<\/p>\n<p>-LEIGH GASES<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Northern Mariana Islands Basketball Federation is holding a pre-tryout meeting for those interested to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-404940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404940","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\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}