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Divya Singh
Sport
Basketball Position Guard/forward Jersey # 4 Career (International)-2002–2007 Height 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) Nationality
IndianBorn (1982-07-21 ) 21 July 1982 (age 41)
Varanasi ,
Uttar Pradesh ,
India High school RMKBI, Varanasi Former school(s) Rajershi Shishu Vihar
Divya Singh (
Hindi :'दिव्या सिंह') (born 21 July 1982) is former captain of the
Indian National Women's Basketball Team . Singh led the Indian women's basketball team at the 2006 Melbourne
Commonwealth Games . She is known for her game skills, leadership qualities, academic strength and personality. She has done sports management at the
University of Delaware ,
Newark, Delaware , (UD) in the year 2008 to 2010 and worked as a Women's basketball assistant coach for UD. She was assistant coach of the Under 16 Indian Men's basketball team which participated in Vietnam 2011. She was the assistant coach of the
Indian Men's team when India won the bronze medal in
Lusophony Games in
Goa .
[1] She was also a part of the
Indian National Women's Basketball Team as an assistant coach in the
17th Asian Games Incheon 2014 .
She works in
MTNL , Delhi. She comes from the Varanasi's "Basketball Family of India" whose four out of five sisters have either played or playing for Indian national team. Her sisters
Prashanti ,
Akanksha , and
Pratima , have represented Indian National Women's Basketball Team.
Akanksha Singh is the current captain of the team. Another sister Priyanka Singh is an
NIS basketball coach. Together they are also known as Singh Sisters . She has one brother, Vikrant Solanki, who plays
football . He has played many nationals from
Uttar Pradesh and junior
I-league . He is a student in
Sri Venkateshwara College in
New Delhi
Singh has been a successful coach at many colleges in Delhi including St. Stephen's College and Jesus & Mary College. She is also working as a coach with the Delhi women's basketball team.
International sporting achievements
3 to 10 June 2007,
Incheon ,
South Korea - winner in Pool-B at
FIBA Asia Championship for Women
15 to 26 March 2006,
Melbourne (
Australia )
Commonwealth Games as captain
7 to 12 March 2006,
Auckland ,
New Zealand Friendly Match Series
22 to 25 September 2006,
Phuket ,
Thailand - Gold in First Phuket International
Invitational Basketball Championship
13 to 19 January 2005,
Sendai ,
Japan - Silver in 20th
Asian Basketball Confederation Championship for Senior Women
29 October to 2 November,
Kuala Lumpur ,
Malaysia - Bronze in
Port Dickson International Invitational Basketball Championship for Senior Women
Awards and achievements
2002 - Best Player Award in Senior UP State Championship, held at Kanpur
2002 - Award for outstanding player from Lucknow Basketball Association
2002 - Award as an outstanding player from
Vice chancellor of the
Benaras Hindu University , Varanasi
2004 - Century
Sports Award by Centaury Sports Club
2005 - Best Player in 21st Karp Impex
Federation Cup Basketball Championship
2006 - Captain of the Indian Basketball team at
Commonwealth Games in
Melbourne (Australia)
2006 - Outstanding Player Honour by
Udai Pratap Autonomous College ,
Varanasi Old Students' Association
2013 - FIBA Level 1 Coaching certificate
2016-17 - Bharat Gaurav Awards for excellence is sports
2017 - Rani Laxmi Bai Bravery Award from the Government of Uttar Pradesh
National sporting achievement
Divya Singh in action for
Delhi
Bronze Medal in 20th Federation Cup Basketball Championship, 2003, Vashi, Navi Mumbai
Gold Medal in 53rd Senior National Basketball Championship, 2003,
Hyderabad , AP
Silver Medal in R.Vaikuntam Cup Basketball Championship for Women, 2005,
New Delhi
Silver Medal in 21st Karp Impex Federation Cup Basketball Championship, 2005,
Bhavnagar ,
Gujarat
Silver Medal in 55th Senior National Basketball Championship, 2005,
Ludhiana ,
Punjab
Silver Medal in 57th Senior National Basketball Championship 2006–07,
Jaipur ,
Rajasthan
Silver Medal in 22nd
Federation Cup Basketball Championship , 2006, Jamshedpur, Jharkhand
Silver Medal in 56th Senior National Basketball Championship, 2006, Pune,
Maharashtra
Academic
Family
Singh comes from a family of basketball players. Of her sisters, three are currently[
when? ] members of the Indian
India women's national basketball team :
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