Emma Meesseman tests positive for Covid-19. She will not travel with the Belgian Cats to Portugal to face Portugal, on November 12, and Ukraine, on November 14. Assistant coach Pierre Cornia also tested positive, he will not travel to Portugal with the team. Meesseman was supposed to be in the 14 to go to Portugal,…
The Cats will play against Portugal on November 12 and against Ukraine on November 12. Both games will be played in Lisbon due to the pandemic. The final selection of 14 will be known next week, when the federation gets the COVID-19 protocol. Julie Allemand, Harriet Bende Nawezhi, Marjorie Carpréaux, Nastja Claessens, Antonia Delaere, Manon…
Belgium Basketball announced that the Belgians Lions and the Belgian Cats will participate in a summer camp in July. The Lions will train in Louvain-La-Neuve, while the Cats will train in different locations (Kortrijk, Wilrijk, Louvain-La-Neuve). For the Cats, this camp will start June 29 with some physical tests. The real camp will start officially…
Alina Iagupova, a former Castor Braine player, has been named Euroleague MVP. Emma Meesseman shares the second place with Alyssa Thomas. The WNBA Finals MVP has also been named in the All-EuroLeague Women First Team. In 13 games in Euroleague, she is averaging 14.1 PTS, 4.6 RBDS and 3.2 ASTS in only 22 minutes with…
Today Hind Ben Abdelkader spoke up about the increasing gap between her and the Belgian Cats (Basketball Belgium). Here is what the extremely talented Guard had to say:
Our U18 Belgian Cats have gone through a difficult opening round at their European Championship in Group A. After big losses against Italy and Croatia, they now narrowly missed their first win of the tournament this evening against Germany. Throughout the game our young Cats kept the victory within their grasp but in the end Germany was…
Cheered on by a sold-out gym in Kortrijk our Belgian Cats defeated the Czech Republic to qualify for EuroBasket 2019. Despite a slow and nervous start our Cats were able to get back in the game in the 2nd quarter, led by star-player Emma Meesseman who scored and dished out assists like nobody’s business and at the half our…
