About Us

CDN National Team Alumni Association Launched

If you have donned a Team Canada jersey or supported Team Canada, experienced the privilege of representing and competing, coaching, refereeing and/or managing for our Nation in basketball, then you are an integral part of a rich Canadian Basketball legacy: You are a Team Canada Alumnus and part of a select and esteemed group.

Our Association is being founded by Team Canada Alums and directed exclusively by and for Team Canada Alums (Players, Coaches, Managers, Referees and Builders: All are welcome).

All alums of every generation are welcomed and encouraged. We are not soliciting your funding here.

It is no secret that the game of basketball was invented by a Canadian: Dr. James Naismith.

Team Canada has enjoyed many outstanding international (FIBA) achievements. Many of you played important roles in those achievements.

It is past time that we alums (that wish to do so) begin ‘linking together’ and loosely but properly begin to connect and organize ourselves.

We started with our former Senior Men’s National Team. CB Hall of Famer Misty Thomas stepped up on the female side. Please support and join her and us by emailing your individual and any Olympic/Medalists Team pictures.

At this time, we will only be able to post pictures of SMNT/SWNT National A Team / Olympic Team players that represented Canada in FIBA/FISU sanctioned championships and Pan Am Games Medalists. All corresponding individual and team pictures will be posted. We note that this is a work in progress. If there have been individual or team omissions or picture quality issues, simply identify any oversight, scan any corresponding  picture, upgrade picture quality and kindly email any updated pictures to our attention.

We plan significant upgrades in the future.

We intend to keep this process practical, frugal, simple and not overly time consuming.

We encourage you to please send us your top 1-2 SWNT and SMNT pictures (since 1936: Especially any podium / medalist pics) and select exceptional individual pics. We will post all reasonable pictures and we are sourcing as many as we can; however, we would appreciate you each providing clear quality and high resolution individual pictures of yourselves in Team Canada uniforms.

We will begin growing by connecting via email, launching over the next few months with these team and individual pics, and likely with a brief bi-annual newsletter and take it from there.

We are happy and honored to step up and help lead in the development of our Alumni Association.

Please join us and step up as well.

To quote Coach D: ‘Pitter patter – let’s get at ‘er’.

Sincerely,

David Turcotte and Howard Kelsey
Co-Founders.