Young 20-year-old Siya Deodhar from Shivaji Nagar Gymkhana Club Nagpur is selected to represent the Indian team in upcoming The 19th edition of Asian Games 2023 starting from September 23 to October 8, in Hangzhou, China.
At the Asian Games, Siya will participate in the 3X3 event of Basketball along with her teammates Anumaria Shaju, Yashneet Kaur, and Vaishnavi Yadav. The Indian team will leave for Hangzhou tomorrow night from Chennai. Siya is the only player from Nagpur to represent India in the Asian Games in the Basketball 3X3 category.
The Indian team will play their first match on 25th Sept against Uzbekistan followed by the second match on 27th Sept against mighty China in the league encounter.
The 19th Asian Games was originally supposed to be held in 2022 but was postponed due to the COVID pandemic.
The 20-year-old rising baller Siya, was one of only three girls to have attended all three NBA Academy India Women’s camps so far (May 2018, Jan. 2019, Oct. 2019) and the only one to have received an award at every camp.
At Shivaji Nagar Gymkhana, Siya is practicing since she was 6 years old and trained under Shiv Chhatrapati Awardee and her coaches Shatrughna Gokhale and Vinay Chikate. A resident of Dharampeth, Nagpur, Siya is the Daughter of proud parents Shreesh Deodhar and Swati Deodhar.
Siya represented Maharashtra State Basketball Team in many National Basketball Championships. At the age of just 16, She was also part of Senior Women Indian camp few years back.
Since 2019, she was the fourth Indian-born athlete to play high-school basketball in the United States after Asmat Kaur Taunque, Harsimran Kaur, and Ann Mary Zachariah.
Siya is one of only three girls to have attended all three NBA Academy India Women’s camps so far (May 2018, Jan. 2019, Oct. 2019) and the only one to have received an award in every camp.
In the first camp, she was named Most Improved Player. Then, in the next two camps, she bagged the ‘Teammate Award’.
Hailing from Shivaji Nagar Gymkhana Nagpur, Siya’s rise within the junior ranks has been well documented by her selection to multiple global training and development camps.
In April 2019, she was one of seven Indians (four girls) to participate at the NCAA Next Generation Showcase. In August last year, she was one of four Indians (two girls) at the Basketball Without Border Asia Camp in Tokyo, Japan. She was one of three Indians (two girls) picked for the Basketball Without Borders Global Camp, held during the 2020 All-Star Weekend in Chicago.
