NIKE GLOBAL HOOP SUMMIT 2014 - CANADIAN CONTENT

CANADIAN CONTENT - APRIL 12 - 2014 

ROY RANA - COACH (RYERSON UNIV)

The World Team at the 2014 Nike Hoop Summit will be led by fourth-year coach Roy Rana (Canada), who currently has a 2-1 record in the series and, in 2013, became the first coach in Hoop Summit history to lead his team to back-to-back victories. Rana is an eight-year veteran of Canadian national team basketball and was appointed head coach of Canada’s Junior National Team in 2012, leading them to bronze medal in the FIBA Americas U18 Championship in Brazil and sixth place in last summer’s  U19 World Championship in Prague. Rana led Canada to bronze at the inaugural FIBA U17 World Championship in Germany in 2010, the latest in a long list of international honors, which also includes two bronze medals and three silvers with Canada at the Nike Global Challenge from 2006-12.

Rana again will be assisted by Serbia's Marin Sedlacek, who is making his 14th Hoop Summit appearance.

“I am once again honored and humbled to coach the top international prospects on the planet,” Rana said. “Coaching the World Team in the Nike Hoop Summit holds a special place in my coaching life because of its powerful life changing impact on those that are privileged enough to be part of the most important global youth basketball event.”

TREY LYLES :

Canada’s Lyles enjoyed an outstanding FIBA U19 World Championship in Prague, Czech Republic, in 2013, finishing third overall in scoring (20.6 points per game) and fifth in rebounds (10.0 per game) over seven games. One year earlier, he was a key part of the Canadian team that won bronze at the FIBA Americas U18 Championship in Brazil. Currently at Arsenal Technical School in Indianapolis, Ind., Lyles has committed to play at Kentucky next season.

JAMAL MURRAY - ACT PREP ORANGEVILLE (CIA BOUNCE) (WATERLOO WOLVERINES AAU)

The second Canadian on the team and a member of the high school class of 2016, Murray was International MVP of the 2013 Jordan Brand Classic Game with 24 points, seven rebounds and two steals. His display at the FIBA Americas U16 Championship in Uruguay last year was noteworthy as he helped Canada win the bronze medal, averaging 17.4 points, 5.6 rebounds and 2.4 steals per game.