BUENOS AIRES - The first-ever FIBA Technical Delegate Candidate workshop in the Americas concluded, achieving its goal of training and recruiting well rounded and experimented delegates for tip-off of the Competition System and Calendar set to begin in November 2017.

The closing of a second working session, marked the end of a week-long workshop that included knowledge exchange between participants, building exercises, online tests and overall on-field actions. Now the participants will have to wait for a future call to know if they were selected as America’s FIBA Technical Delegates for the New Competition System and Calendar structure.

“It’s been a great couple of days, with a lot of information shared and wonderful hands-on activities to learn with our counterparts from other countries. This has been an amazing opportunity for me to broaden my international experience, and my knowledge of the game both inside and outside of the venue, as well of the official rules of FIBA basketball. I look forward to the opportunity of becoming a technical delegate,” said Jenny Carnes, Technical Delegate Candidate and Executive Director of the Organizing Committee for the 2018 NCAA Final Four.

"This was a very rewarding activity for all those present, the exchange of knowledge and opinions with the colleagues from different countries, as well as the overall explanation and understanding of the FIBA regulations made this very educational. Is a very rewarding experience because it was a very dynamic activity where we could learn how to organize and develop a FIBA event from A to Z," said FIBA Technical Delegate Candidate and statistics extraordinaire, Edgar Marin.

FIBA New Competition System and Calendar will open a new era for international basketball all over the world - one which features 1,680 top players in 1,200 national team games and millions of fans all around the globe.

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