Year of Women’s Basketball Project Manager will be heading to Scotland this weekend to see some of the activities related to the project that are being organised by Basketball Scotland.

On Saturday, Wender will be visiting Bathgate Academy in West Lothian to attend a Junior Women's training session followed by a Year of Women's Basketball event.

Scotland Junior Women’s National Team Head Coach Donna Finnie took charge of a basketball camp at Mayfield Sports Centre, Tayside in Scotland at the weekend.

The “Girls Allowed”, an event only for females, was organised by SportTayside & Fife and attracted over 40 girls between the age of 11 and 18 from all parts of Tayside and Fife.

On the final day of the EuroLeague Women Final Four in the Moscow Region, Esther Wender, Project Manager of the Year of Women's Basketball, had a chance to address the presidents of all Russian first league teams.
 
Wender spoke about the Year of Women's Basketball project and how it can help to further develop basketball in Europe.

Maria Stepanova, Sandrine Gruda and Ilona Korstin have demonstrated their talent on the basketball court.

Stepanova was named the 2006 FIBA Europe Women's Player of the Year, while Gruda earned honours as the top young women's player on the continent. Korstin, the Face of the Year of Women Basketball, finished fifth in the Player of the Year voting and played a key role in Russia's silver medal showing at last year's FIBA World Championship.

FIBA Europe Secretary General Nar Zanolin highlighted the success of FIBA Europe’s campaign to promote the women’s game last week in Valencia.
 
Prior to the EuroLeague Women’s All Star Game, Zanolin spoke at length during a press conference about the importance of women’s basketball to FIBA Europe.