San Diego Wildcats vs. Beijing China This Sunday
November 21, 2006 - American Basketball Association (ABA)
San Diego Wildcats News Release
The Aoshen (Olympian) team was established in 1997, since that time the team and organization has strived to build up the only privately owned Chinese, first-class, professional basketball team. Following the principle that training and experience is of primary importance, the organization has invested in recruiting outstanding young people with great basketball talent, improving on this talent by receiving training from experienced and famous American, Yugoslavian, and South Korean international grade coaches.
In 1998, Aoshen (Olympian) showed its potential by winning the Asian Club Championship, and earned a position in the CBA Division I. Since 1998-2005, Aoshen (Olympian) has placed as high as 4th in the CBA League Championships. Gifted with physical ability, including players over 2.05 cm in height, other players have shown great basketball skill, even having one player, Sun Yue, joining the China National Team. The skills of these players have even attracted the attention of the NBA.
By providing such high caliber training to the young players, teaching the fundamentals of the game, and allowing the team to gain the experience needed to develop their skills and talents, Aoshen (Olympian) is now able to truly show fans worldwide their abilities, and that this fresh new approach to the game of basketball knows no borders.
This team just joined the ABA 2005 - 2006 Season and are participating again this year.
The San Diego Wildacts play Beijing Aoshen twice in the next two weeks:
Sunday November 26th at Eastlake High School @ 5pm
Tuesday December 5th at Eastlake High School @ 7pm
For tickets and more info please go to www.sandiegowildcats.com
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