On June 2nd in 2018, the Basketball Without Borders Asia Camp concluded at the NBA Academy India at the Jaypee Greens Integrated Sports Complex in Delhi National Capital Region (NCR).
The four-day camp, which saw 66 boys and girls from 16 different countries participate , was held in India for only the second time and the first since 2008.
Of the 38 boys, five were from India while of the 28 girls, there were 20 - 18 of whom were from the first-ever NBA Academy India Women's Camp, which was held prior to the BWB from May 27-29.
For Bangalore baller Sunishka Kartik, her first Basketball Without Borders Asia camp was everything she was expecting and more!#BWBAsia 2018 pic.twitter.com/VlsjftjFsS
— NBAIndia (@NBAIndia) June 18, 2018
Here's a list of the Indian campers:
| Boys | Girls |
| Priyanshu Priyanshu | Khushi Ahlawat |
| Amaan Sandhu | Riya Baliyan |
| Harpreet Singh | Priyanka Behal |
| Princepal Singh | Siya Deodhar |
| Prashant Tomar | Rajvi Desai |
| Khushi Sanjay Dongre | |
| Elijabet Ekka | |
| Grishma Niranjan | |
| Monica Jayakumar | |
| Anmariya Johny | |
| Neha Karva | |
| Sanjana Ramesh | |
| Radha Rani | |
| Sreekala Rani | |
| Pushpa Senthil Kumar | |
| Arya A Sreeraman | |
| Asmat Kaur Taunque | |
| Kainat Trehan | |
| Vaishnavi Yadav | |
| Ann Mary Zachariah |
Kelly Olynyk (Miami Heat; Canada; BWB Americas 2009), Dwight Powell (Dallas Mavericks; Canada), Corey Brewer (U.S.), Caris LeVert (Brooklyn Nets; U.S.), two-time WNBA Champion Ruth Riley, and former WNBA player Ebony Hoffman would coach the top high school age campers from throughout the Asia-Pacific region.
Also in attendance, as part of the coaching team, were Indian national team members Satnam Singh and Amjyot Singh.
Basketball Without Borders Asia 2018 is off to a breakneck speed!
— NBAIndia (@NBAIndia) May 31, 2018
Watch 👇🏻 for recap of Day 1 #BWBAsia pic.twitter.com/m8rFz1k0ho
Through the four days, the campers would undergo various activities on and off the court including 5-on-5 games, positional workouts, and daily life skills seminars focusing on health, leadership and communication.
Recapping all the special moments from the last day of #BWBAsia 2018!#NBAAcademy pic.twitter.com/eDmbuZVAy5
— NBAIndia (@NBAIndia) June 3, 2018
On the final day of the camp, after two championship games (boys and girls) and two All-Star games were played (boys and girls), the awards were announced.
The two Indians among the awardees were the Co-MVP from the NBA Academy India Women's Camp - Vaishnavi Yadav and Sanjana Ramesh. While Yadav won the Girls' Grit Award, Ramesh took home Camp MVP honours.
In an exclusive interview with NBA.com/India in January of 2019 , Ramesh, who had signed a National Letter of Intent with North Arizona University. in November of that year, emphasized the importance of this BWB camp in her eventually playing college basketball in the US:
Everything at the BWB (Basketball Without Borders) camp and the Women's camp at NBA's India Academy was recorded. I think the coaches at these camps sent clips to few colleges in the United States.
Most of the colleges had found out about it when I was named MVP of the BWB camp. So, that's how the process began.
Ramesh's MVP award is only the second time an Indian has received the recognition at a BWB camp. It came 10 years after Vishesh Bhriguvanshi, the current captain and point guard of the Indian senior men's team, won the award at the BWB Asia Camp in 2008.
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