Selected for Junior Tall Blacks
27 May 2017Head Coach Daryl Cartwright is excited about the group that will be the first to represent New Zealand at a FIBA U19 World Cup. The team qualified after defeating Australia at the Oceania Championships last year in Fiji.
It is also a team with considerable size, with the New Zealand associations and pathways continuing to produce a raft of quality young "bigs", with Callum McRae, Angus McWilliam, Sam Waardenburg and Tai Wynyard all standing at 6’10” or taller.
2017 Junior Tall Blacks for the FIBA U19 World Championship (Cairo July 1 to 9) :
Joshua Aitcheson
Flynn Cameron
Tobias Cameron
Quinn Clinton
Toby Gillooly
Isaac Letoa
Hamish McDonald
Callum McRae
Angus McWilliam
Taane Samuel
Samuel Waardenburg
Tai Wynyard