{"id":1293,"date":"2014-02-06T15:35:57","date_gmt":"2014-02-06T15:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/sharks\/?p=1293"},"modified":"2014-02-06T16:09:26","modified_gmt":"2014-02-06T16:09:26","slug":"new-recruits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/sharks\/new-recruits\/","title":{"rendered":"New Recruits."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought we would do a little Q&amp;A session and catch up with our two new recruits before their first game this\u00a0Saturday 8th February, 2pm\u00a0in the Jubilee&#8230; make sure you don&#8217;t miss it!<\/p>\n<p>Firstly, after the huge success of our girl&#8217;s team this Wednesday, I have decided to shine the spotlight, against his wishes,\u00a0on our dear coach <strong>Jon Pickering;<\/strong> who will now be helping both the Women&#8217;s and Men&#8217;s teams this season,\u00a0as he was signed on the buzzer to strengthen our\u00a0\u00a0Men&#8217;s National League squad.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Favorite Team<\/strong>:\u00a0Canterbury Crusaders. \u00a0Okay so they\u2019re a rugby team&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><strong>All-time Favorite Player<\/strong>:\u00a0\u00a0Elana Della Donne.\u00a0Youtube her! Or Rimas Kurtaitis. Wikipedia him.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Number of Years Experience<\/strong>: 22. \u00a0Born balling!<\/li>\n<li><strong>Years Coaching<\/strong>: As long as I\u2019ve been playing always got advice to give<\/li>\n<li><strong>Highest Level of Basketball Played<\/strong>:\u00a0A mountain in Rwanda. \u00a0Really high. \u00a0At least 8,000 feet. <em>[Funny one he is&#8230;]<\/em><strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Favorite Basketball Memory:<\/strong> \u00a0Creating all my teammates in NBA Live 99 and going unbeaten! \u00a0I got banned from the computer after one season though.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Favorite Basketball Moment You Were Involved in<\/strong>: \u00a0I won a free throw contest as Fleming Park during a Solent game when I was 6!!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Now for our fresher <strong>Shiloh Santoo<\/strong>ri, who\u00a0has had a great\u00a0start to the season, leading the score sheet every game, and will now\u00a0be stepping up to enhance the Men&#8217;s National League hopes.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Favourite Team:<\/strong> Los Angeles Lakers<\/li>\n<li><strong>All-time Favourite Player<\/strong>: Kobe Bryant<\/li>\n<li><strong>Number of Years Experience<\/strong>: 5 Years<\/li>\n<li><strong>Highest Level of Basketball Played<\/strong>: Hong Kong Men&#8217;s League<\/li>\n<li><strong>Favourite Basketball Memory:<\/strong> During game 6 of the nba finals in 1974. It was Milwaukee Bucks against the Boston Celtics. It was double overtime and Kareem Abdul Jabbar had debatably one of his best sky hooks in his career by putting the bucks up 102-101 with 3 seconds left in double OT<\/li>\n<li><strong>Favorite Basketball Moment You Were Involved in<\/strong>: When I was in my school league back in Hong Kong and it was the semi final game and we had a horrible first half yet came back and won that game by 10 points. Very good team basketball game.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And there you have it, a little introduction to our new recruits who I&#8217;m sure will be great additions to the National League team.<\/p>\n<p>Good luck on Saturday boys, make sure you join the facebook event <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1381713488762078\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought we would do a little Q&amp;A session and catch up with our two new recruits before their first game this\u00a0Saturday 8th February, 2pm\u00a0in the Jubilee&#8230; make sure you don&#8217;t miss it! 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