Prashanti Singh

Prashanti Singh
Position Small forward/Shooting guard
Career International: 2002–present
Height 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
Weight 65 Kg
Nationality India Indian
Born (1984-05-05) 5 May 1984
Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India

Prashanti Singh (born 5 May 1984, Varanasi, India) is a shooting guard for the Indian national women's basketball team. She represented the team at 2006 Commonwealth Games , 16th Asian Games Guangzhou 2010 and 17th Asian Games Incheon 2014. She comes from the Varanasi's "Basketball Family of India" whose four out of five sisters have either played or playing for Indian national team.

Prashanti joined the Indian Women's Basketball Team in 2003 and became its captain. She played as captain in 3rd Asian Indoor Games were held in Vietnam on 30 October – 8 November 2009 won Silver medal and 16th Asian Games at Guangzhou China in November 2010.Prashanti singh won GOLD Medal in Asian beach games at Sri Lanka in 2011. Prashanti Singh is one of the top four A grade player of India selected and sponsored by basketball federation of india & IMG-Reliance. Prashanti Singh won 23 Medals in prestigious National Championship/National Games/Federation Cup. She holds the National record of having most medals in National Championships. She is only women Basketball player in india to represent National team in one CWG 2006 & two Asian Games 2010, 2014 respectively.

She is also a member of the International Women's Film Forum of Asian Academy of Film & Television (AAFT). Prashanti Singh is first and only Basketball Player in India who has a documentary film named B Cube ( Boskey Basketball Banaras) on her own life which is selected in Top Six films in prestigious Satyajit Ray film Festival. Her sisters Divya, Akanksha, and Pratima, have represented Indian National Women's Basketball Team. Akanksha Singh is the current member of the team. Another sister Priyanka Singh is an NIS basketball coach. Together they are also known as Singh Sisters.

International Sporting Achievements

Indian Team at Vietnam

National Sporting achievement

Awards and Achievement

Academic

Graduate in Arts from University of Delhi, India.

Family

She comes from a family of Indian basketball players, three of her sisters currently are a member of the Indian women's national basketball team.

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