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{{short description|Indian basketball player}}
{{For|the Indian actress|Aakanksha Singh}}
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{{Infobox NCAA athlete
| name = Akanksha Singh
| image =
| image_size = 200
| height = 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)
| team = Indian women Basketball team / Delhi
| position = [[Small forward]]/[[Point guard]]
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1989|09|07}}
| birth_place = [[Varanasi]], [[Uttar Pradesh]], India
| currently Playing for India & Delhi State
| nationality = {{flagicon|IND}} Indian
| career_start = International: 2003
| career_end =
}}

'''Akanksha Singh''' (born 7 September 1989) in Varanasi Uttar Pradesh) is an Indian basketball player and captain of [[India Women's National Basketball Team]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thequint.com/sports/meet-cricketer-ishant-sharmas-fiancee-basketball-champ-pratima-singh-wedding|title=Meet Ishant Sharma’s Fiancee: Basketball Champ Pratima Singh|work=The Quint|access-date=2018-04-17|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.stabroeknews.com/2011/sports/08/12/indian-basketball-sisters-defy-gender-bias/|title=Indian basketball sisters defy gender bias|date=2011-08-12|work=Stabroek News|access-date=2018-04-17|language=en-US}}</ref> She has played for the national team since 2004. She and her sisters, [[Divya Singh]], [[Prashanti Singh]], and [[Pratima Singh]], are known as "fantastic four" of Delhi women's basketballers and also known as the ''Singh Sisters''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.mapsofindia.com/my-india/sports/fantastic-four-indian-women-basketball-gets-a-fillip|title=Fantastic four – Indian Women Basketball gets a fillip {{!}} My India|website=www.mapsofindia.com|language=en|access-date=2018-04-17}}</ref>

== Playing career ==

In 2003, Akanksha Singh made her debut in the Senior Nationals and played for the [[Uttar Pradesh]] team when she was just an 11th Grader. In 2004, Akanksha followed her sister’s footsteps into the Delhi team.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.olympicchannel.com/en/stories/features/detail/india-basketball-singh-sisters/|title=CELEBRATING INDIA’S BASKETBALL KINDRED - THE SINGH SISTERS}}</ref> In 2010, Akanksha was awarded the Most Valuable Player in India's first Professional Basketball league, MBPL 2010. Her name then, went on to be forever cemented in the Indian Basketball history books as one of the first ever Top Four Players to achieve the "A Grade" from the [[Basketball Federation of India]] sponsored by [[IMG Reliance]]. She is often called by the name of "small wonder" in basketball.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/Akanksha-is-champ/articleshow/16483311.cms|title=Akanksha is champ - Times of India|work=The Times of India|access-date=2018-04-17}}</ref>

She has been awarded Best Player in many national and state championships. In her captaincy at [[University of Delhi]] she won a gold medal in All India University basketball championship at [[Nellore]], where she was given joint best player award along with her sister [[Pratima Singh]].

==Personal life==
Singh comes from a family of basketball players. She completed her undergraduate studies at [[St. Stephen’s College, Delhi]]. <ref>{{Cite news|url=https://m.timesofindia.com/life-style/spotlight/basketball-star-akanksha-singh-to-marry-nityn-bulchandani/amp_articleshow/61723262.cms |title= Basketball star Akanksha Singh to marry Nityn Bulchandani}}</ref> Her sisters [[Divya Singh|Divya]], [[Prashanti Singh|Prashanti]], and [[Pratima Singh|Pratima]], have represented Indian National Women's Basketball Team. Another sister Priyanka Singh is a [[National Institute of Sports]] basketball coach. Together they are also known as Singh sisters.<ref>{{Citation|last=NDTV|title=The Basketball sisters of Banaras|date=2011-07-17|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwsO2Ubt0Pg|accessdate=2018-04-17}}</ref> Priyanka is a ([[National Institute of Sports|NIS]] basketball coach and Priyanka's husband is NIS basketball coach.{{citation needed|date=April 2018}} Sister [[Divya Singh]] worked with the [[University of Delaware]] basketball team.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.sportskeeda.com/basketball/a-talk-with-divya-singh-former-indian-basketball-team-captain|title=A talk with Divya Singh, Former Indian Basketball Team Captain|date=2011-01-22|access-date=2018-04-17}}</ref> Her brother Vikrant Solanki is a Football player In the I-league and Santosh trophy.

==Awards and achievement==

* Awarded as one of the best four ‘A grade players’ across the country in the women section in Basketball in India
* May 2010 - Most Valuable player in first All India Mastan Basketball Professional League held at Mumbai, Maharashtra
* May 2010 - Best Player Award in the league match in MBPL, Mumbai, Maharashtra.
* 2008 - Most Valuable player in All India Inter University Basketball Tournament held at Nellore, Andhra Pradesh
* 2008 - Best Player Award in [[Lady Shri Ram College]] for Women, New Delhi
* September 2006 - Best Player Award in XXXII St. Stephens College invitational Basketball tournament held at [[St. Stephen's College, Delhi]]
* September 2005 - Best Player Award in XXXI St. Stephens College invitational Basketball tournament held at St. Stephens College, Delhi

==International sporting achievement==

* [[2014 Asian Games|Asian Games 2014]] Incheon, KOREA, 19 September to 4 October 2014
* 34th Williams Jones Cup invitational tournament 2012, [[Miaoli County|Miaoli county]], [[Taiwan]]
* 25th FIBA [[Asian Basketball Championship]] for senior women, 2011, [[Nagasaki]], [[Japan]]
* 33rd William Jones Cup 2011, [[Hsin Chuang Gymnasium|Hsinchuang Gymnasium]], [[Chinese Taipei]]
* [[Asian Games 2010]] [[Guangzhou]], [[China]], 12 November to 27 November 2010
* 24th FIBA [[Asian Basketball Championship]] for Senior Women, 2009, [[Chennai]], India
* 23rd [[FIBA]] Asian Basketball Championship for Senior Women, 2007, [[Korea]]
* 18th FIBA Asian Basketball Championship for Junior Women 2007, [[Bangkok]], [[Thailand]]
* 2nd FIBA Asian Basketball Championship for Young Women, 2006, [[Singapore]]
* 17th FIBA Asian Basketball Championship for Junior Women, 2004, [[Shenzhen]], [[China]]
* Indian Camp for 21st [[FIBA]] Asian Basketball Championship for Senior Women, 2005, [[Qinhuangdao City]], [[China]]

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[[Category:Sportswomen from Uttar Pradesh]]
[[Category:Indian women's basketball players]]
[[Category:Basketball players from Varanasi]]
[[Category:Basketball players at the 2010 Asian Games]]
[[Category:Basketball players at the 2014 Asian Games]]
[[Category:21st-century Indian women]]
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[[Category:Asian Games competitors for India]]
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