VIBF has busy schedule ahead with FIBA tourneys, 3v3 programs

It’s going to be a busy next few months for the officials of the Virgin Islands Basketball Federation.

Over the final 11 weeks of 2024, the sports’ governing body in the territory will:

• Hold training camp for the U.S. Virgin Islands’ senior women’s national team, which will compete in the 2024 FIBA Women’s CentroBasket Championship tournament in early November.

• Enlist players and hold a training camp for the territory’s under-15 boys team for the upcoming 2024 FIBA CentroBasket U-15 Championships in early December.

• And, in a first for the USVI, put together a 3-on-3 basketball program — both boys and girls — involving the territory’s public and private high schools.

“Yeah, we are trying to get back in the swing of things,” VIBF secretary general David Edole said Wednesday in an exclusive interview with The Daily News. None more so than the USVI Women’s National Team, which will play in its first FIBA-sanctioned tournament in more than two years when its heads to Irapuato, Mexico — about 170 miles northwest of Mexico City — for the Women’s CentroBasket tourney from Dec. 5-10.