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Foundation s female voices: âYou don t have to play like a boy to be goodâ
MIES (Switzerland) -
Five women, five continents, five weeks, five stories of resilience, leadership and Basketball For Good leading up to the International Womenâs day on March 8
th. For week one, discover the story of Jacobina Tangi Uushona from Namibia, who was a beneficiary of the Basketball Artists School (BAS) supported by the FIBA Foundation.
 Jacobina discovered basketball when she was ten years old. âI remember it like it was yesterday, we had a PE lesson and some coaches came to my school and said they wanted to teach us all basketball. That was the first time I ever heard of it. I was chosen as 1 of 24 kids to be part of BAS and that is my basketball love story. I haven t stopped playing since.â