Year 2005/2006

9º CAMPUS BASKET AMERICANO INGENIO 2006

El Campus con la mejor calidad de enseñanza de Baloncesto. Este año contamos con dos entrenadores norteamericanos de un prestigioso High School de Houston:

MARK ALEXANDER Y TIM BARTLETT

Y también contamos con una gran animación y actividades diversas: Excursiones a la playa, futbol 3x3, animación nocturna y muchas sorpresas más.

¡¡¡DATE PRISA!!! ¿TE LO VAS A PERDER?

Inscripciones e información: 928.678.341 y 606.091.156
Boletín de inscripción

El Sábado 17 de junio, a las 11.00 horas en el Colegio Canterbury de San Lorenzo (edificio de Secundaria), participarán nuestros jugadores/as desde P2 a S4 y donde estarán invitados los padres y hermanos.

El objetivo es divertirnos y pasar un día juntos, toda la familia CANTERBURY LIONS de Baloncesto, por lo que hemos organizado:

1. Partidos de Baloncesto de chicos y de chicas.
2. Competiciones.
3. Partido de padres.
4. Entrega de Premios de la temporada 2005-2006.
5. Asadero ininterrumpido para poder comer a todas horas.

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This weekend the final phase of the minibasket competition was played in the ‘La Montaña’ sports hall in Galdar.
The boys’ last match was full of excitement with extra time and a winning triple in the very last seconds. It was an absolutely fantastic match.
Boys: Canterbury, IBSA Gran Canaria, Claret Gran Canaria, La Paterna Gran Canaria.
Friday: Canterbury – La Paterna G.C. (35 – 30). Our players did not play their best game and this was partly due to the good defence tactics of the opposing players, Eventually however our players pulled their socks up and the Lions won an expected victory.
Saturday: Canterbury – IBSA Gran Canaria (40 – 36). A very close and difficult game against rival players considerable taller ( it’s the tallest team in the group) The first half was neck and neck and the score was 21-22 at the interval so it was still anybody’s game.. Our team played an excellent third quarter (10-2) which set us on the path to victory although in the final period the game was more equal and our opponents caught up three points (9-12). Our boys played a great match with Gabriel scoring 2 triples at important moments, one especially outstanding as he had a huge rival player on top of him, which put us in the lead when the game was equal.
Sunday: Claret Gran Canaria – Canterbury (44 – 44 prórroga) y (50 – 53).

Llega el verano y el mejor momento para MEJORAR TU BALONCESTO Y DIVERTIRTE.

9º CAMPUS BASKET AMERICANO INGENIO 2006

El Campus con la mejor calidad de enseñanza de Baloncesto.

Formato de 24 horas en régimen de pensión completa. Baloncesto y Actividades diversas.

Lugar: Carrizal de Ingenio. Pabellón Cubierto Chano Melián y Colegio Anexo.

Inscripciones e información: 928.678.341 y 606.091.156

Boletín de inscripción

7º Campus de Baloncesto “Ciudad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria”

Formato diurno, de lunes a viernes y hasta las 17.00 horas.

Lugar: Parque de Santa Catalina.

Inscripciones en el Instituto Insular de Deportes del Ayuntamiento de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (León y Castillo, 322 - 3ª Edificio Casa del Marino / teléfono: 928.44.66.29).

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The Lions preinfantil basketball team has done a great job this year. Ernis’ boys were the best of the four teams competing in the final games for the Island Championship.
On Friday evening the first match took place. Canterbury Idecnet – Heidelberg (58-31).
On Saturday the second match was played: Canterbury Idecnet – Vecindario (53-27).
On Sunday morning the long awaited match took place: Ciudad de Telde – Canterbury Idecnet (25-35).

In our recent minibasket championship, one of the Real Madrid’s players Ignacio Iriarte Paz, was an ex Canterbury pupil whose parents had moved to Madrid for personal reasons. Meeting up with old school pals was an emotional moment and all the boys concerened thoroughly enjoyed themselves during the tournament. In the K1 photo taken at Christmas 1997 you can see Ignacio on the left (player no 13 of Real Madrid who were second in the Spanish Campionships) on the right Javier Rivero Pérez (Nº 20 of Canterbury Lions) and behind (in white) Dani Pérez (Champion of the Canary Islands and member of the Canarian Selection Team). See more photos here.

Her enthusiasm, dedication and above all determination to improve has enabled Ana Henriquez to be the first Canterbury Lions player to be chosen to represent the Canary Islands team. She is 1.65 worth of pure sportswoman makes Ann a great team player with good technical competence an outlook for the game unusual in players of her age. She has thoroughly enjoyed representing the Canary Islands together with players from other clubs. We hope that you will carry on in the same way Ana and have the opportunity to enjoy similar experiences in following years. Congratulations Ana!

The Lions’ Second International Minibasket Tournament will take place between the 11th and 14th May. The following clubs will participate: Canterbury, Houston-USA, Nuryana, Heidelberg, Real Madrid, IBSA Gran Canaria, Vecindario and Santa Cruz in the boys’ category and Canterbury, Basket Tara, Puerto del Arrecife and Nuryana in the girls’ category. We wish all the players the best of luck and hope that all our teams’ fans will come along to the Juan Beltran Sierra Sports Hall that weekend to cheer them on. Look up www.canterburylions.com .

Against the emotive background of the ‘Guindos de Unicaja Sports Hall, the final match of the Southern Division was played and in a sensational match applauded by an enthusiastic public, the Gran Canarian winners,the Canterbury Lions, were acclaimed champions and are through to the Grand Schools final to be played in Madrid. (see news).
The Canterbury Lions played a great game and in spite of the atmosphere created by numerous fans of the team from Granada beat the Agustinos by 70 to 53.
Now they are all out for the Grand Final Trophy… but first they have to beat the champions of the Central Division, the tremendous ‘Liceo Francés Búhos’.

The school has recently had the honour of a visit from Jim Moran , Kennedy Winston and Victor Baldo ., three outstanding players from the ACB team ‘ CB Gran Canaria Grupo Dunas ’, as our boys have won the first round of the Schools’ Championship competition. The three Stars spent all day with our pupils who revelled in seeing them play, listening to their advice and enjoying their company. We hope our team will carry on winning their matches in the Schools Championships and have future visits from similar players of such high reputation.

The boys Canterbury team have taken one more step ahead in Southern District of the ACB Schools Competition. Our green and yellow players showed their mettle in the University Sports Hall in Tafira by beating Portaceli, the winners of the competition organised by the Caja San Fernando. Santi López’ team was dominant from the very start of the match and the final store ended in a comfortable 62-43. Unfortunately our girls’ Cadete’ team was not so lucky and was beaten by the Junior team from ‘Virgen de la Milagrosa’.

A very exciting, tough match was fought last Saturday between our girls CANTERBURY “B” and Caja canarias ( 20 – 18 ) when a large number of enthusiastic supporters around the court were able to enjoy our first victory over the Cajacanarias.
Our girls have improved tremendously during their short existence and as time has gone by have won many matches against different clubs in Gran Canaria but this victory is special because it is an indication of the high level reach they have reached, as the Cajacanarias is the only club that we had never beaten.
Congratulations to all the players in Canterbury “B” (Years 4-5 -´P3-P4) for their great game against the Cajacanarias in the girls Preminibasket benjamín league match.

Alter various changes and cancellations, the dates for the Schools Tournament matches have finally been arranged.

Girls: CANTERBURY – AMERICAN SCHOOL Thursday 23rd February at 16.30 at the Colegio Sagrado Corazón.

Boys: CANTERBURY – SALESIANOS Thrusday 2nd March at 16.30 at Canterbury.

Two of our players have been selected to take part in the play off for the Canarian Minibasket teams.

The meeting will take place at the Nuryana School in Tenerife on the 24th, 25th and 26th February.

The players selected from our CANTERBURY LIONS BASKETBALL CLUB are:

ALEJANDRO PÉREZ: Boys Canterbury “A” minibasket team
ANA HENRÍQUEZ: Girls Canterbury minibasket team

Congratulations to you both!

For the last five years we have taken advantage of the long Easter break to organise the Canterbury Lions Basketball Campus. This year the 5th meeting will take place from Monday 3rd to Friday 7th of April. Unfortunately the number of places is limited and we advise all those interested to register now. Registration forms can be obtain at inscripción .
The Campus will be directed by the North American trainer CHRIS ROMINE, who is the Head Trainer of Georgetown HS, USA. Chris is well known for his great enthusiasm for the game and his attention to detail. His players are noted as being excellent shooters and very effective in 1x1 techniques. .

The American School team played a defensive 2-1-2 match throughout the whole game whereas the CANTERBURY LIONS used a continuous individual defensive technique in ½ court. At half time the score was 30-0 in the Lions favour. The last two quarters were very relaxed and the final score was 60-7.

In the photon the left, our placer Omar Esparza is in a thoughtful mood during one of the matches.

* CANARIAN CADETE BOYS TEAM: Champion of Spain. Our player Pablo Quevedo (Canterbury Telde) was one of the team’s most important players during the championship and spent many minutes on the court..
* CANARIAN CADETE GIRLS TEAM: Classified 11th. The team improved continually and played well. Our player Omayra Vera (Canterbury Tara) is one of the few players of the first year in the team.
* CANARIAN INFANTIL BOYS TEAM: Classified 4th. Our player Eliézer Santana (Canterbury Telde) was an important member of the team due to his strength and versatility.

On the 8th, 9th and 10th of December the tournament to select the Grand Canarian teams in the boys and girls ‘Minibasket’ category took place in the Vega de San José Sports Hall.
We would like to congratulate our ‘Minibasket’ players (Ana Henríquez, Alejandro Pérez, Héctor Suárez, Luis López, David González and Gabriel Navarro-preminibasket-), who have been selected to represent the boys and girls Grand Canarian teams for their great performance throughout the Tournament.

Recently our Canterbury Lions Sports Club has made a sponsorship agreement with with Arunet , a local computer and computer services firm. .From now on our boys preminibasket team, which is the actual island champion. will be called Canterbury-Arunet Rodrigo García and Manuel Prego were the representatives responsible for signing the agreement. (see photo).

Last week the Lions Sports Club reached a sponsorship agreement with the Telecommunications Company Idecnet. From now on our ‘Preinfantil’, team, the present champions of the whole of the Canary Islands, will be called ‘Canterbury Idecnet’. Rodrigo Garcia and Juan Manuel Castellano were the representatives selected to sign the agreement. (see photo)

The time has come! We have all been waiting impatiently for this moment to arrive.

The first Basketball League matches in the ‘Cadete’ and ‘Infantile Masculine’ categories will take place this weekend

Los chicos entrenados por Santi López disputaron un gran Torneo en Tenerife, consiguiendo arrebatarle el quinto puesto del mismo a todo un Real Madrid, después de jugar una muy difícil primera fase en la que solo le vencieron los dos equipos que disputarían la final del domigo.