Sanjana Ramesh
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| Karnataka | ||||||||||||
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| Position | Small forward | |||||||||||
| League | INBC | |||||||||||
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| Born | April 12, 2001 Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India | |||||||||||
| Listed height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) | |||||||||||
| Career information | ||||||||||||
| Playing career | 2017–present | |||||||||||
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| 2017– | Karnataka | |||||||||||
| 2019–2023 | Northern Arizona Lumberjacks | |||||||||||
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Sanjana Ramesh (born 12 April 2001) is an Indian basketball player from Bengaluru. She plays for the India national basketball team[1] and the Karnataka in the Indian National Championships. She also represented Northern Arizona Lumberjacks of the Big Sky Conference. She was part of the Indian women's team in the 2022 Asian Games at Hangzhou, China.[2]
Sanjana was born in Chennai and grew up in Bangalore, Karnataka. She attended Delhi Public School (South), Bengaluru.[3] Sanjana started playing basketball because her school did not have a football team. She wanted to prove as a sportswoman to her brother, a footballer, and ended up taking basketball as a career.[4]
College career
In November 2018, Sanjana signed to play college basketball at Northern Arizona University, becoming the second Indian female basketball player to earn an NCAA Division I scholarship after Kavita Akula, who enrolled at Grand Canyon University in 2017.[3][5] In 2020, Sanjana received the Golden Eagle Scholar-Athlete Award recipient.[6]
