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{{Short description|Indian basketball player}}
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'''Anmolpreet Kaur Pannu''' (24 November 1999)<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |date=2025-07-12 |title=Anmolpreet Kaur - (India) - Basketball Stats, Height, Age {{!}} FIBA Basketball |url=https://www.fiba.basketball/en/players/236869-anmolpreet-kaur-- |access-date=2025-07-12 |website=www.fiba.basketball |language=en}}</ref> is an Indian [[basketball]] player from Punjab. She plays for the [[India women's national basketball team]] as a guard. She plays for Punjab team in the domestic tournaments.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |date=2016-03-12 |title=Teen basketball player selected for Tokyo academy |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ludhiana/teen-basketball-player-selected-for-tokyo-academy/articleshow/51365785.cms |access-date=2025-07-12 |work=The Times of India |issn=0971-8257}}</ref> She also plays 3x3 basketball.<ref>https://play.fiba3x3.com/players/2773ca64-46f7-457b-996a-5aa85fe92e5c</ref>

== Early life and education ==
Kaur is from Rountan village, Shahpur Nakodar, Jalandhar, India. But during childhood she was a resident of Phillaur, Punjab, where her father, Parminder Singh, used to work as an assistant sub-inspector. She joined the Ludhiana Basketball Academy after finishing her Class 10 and used to travel regularly to Ludhiana, as her mother Jasvir Kaur was very protective. She did her schooling at Saint Joseph Convent School in her home town but moved to a hostel in Ludhiana and joined Malwa Khalsa Senior Secondary Girls School to hone her basketball.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Saxena |first=Kabir |title=16 Year Old Anmolpreet Kaur makes history by becoming first Indian to get high school basketball scholarship in Japan |url=https://www.ekalavyas.com/p/16-year-old-anmolpreet-kaur-makes-history-becoming-first-indian-get-high-school-basketball-scholarship-japan |access-date=2025-07-12 |website=www.ekalavyas.com |language=en}}</ref> She trained under coach Teja Singh Dhaliwal at the Ludhiana Academy.<ref name=":0" />

== Career ==
At 14, Kaur's first big tournament was the 2015 Youth Nationals where she represented [[Punjab]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |date=2025-05-26 |title=Anmolpreet Kaur Pannu: A Game Changer in Indian Women’s |url=https://shiningsikh.com/anmolpreet-kaur-pannu-a-game-changer-in-indian/ |access-date=2025-07-12 |language=en-US}}</ref> In March 2016, she became the first girl from India to be selected for a three year scholarship programme to train at the basketball academy, Tou Gakuen High School, Tokyo, and to play high school basketball in Japan.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Gill |first=Gagandeep Singh |date=12 March 2016 |title=Ludhiana girl selected for three-year basketball training in Japan |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/punjab/ludhiana-girl-selected-for-three-year-basketball-training-in-japan/story-LxjbBDPH2YTDY0B4vqUWGJ.html |access-date=12 July 2025 |website=Hindustan Times}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Achal |first=Ashwin |date=2017-05-15 |title=India targets a spot among the elite |url=https://www.thehindu.com/sport/other-sports/india-targets-a-spot-among-the-elite/article18459163.ece |access-date=2025-07-12 |work=The Hindu |language=en-IN |issn=0971-751X}}</ref>

In July 2017, she made her debut for the senior India team, representing the country in the [[2017 FIBA Women's Asia Cup|FIBA Women’s Asia Cup]] in 2017 Division B, which India won at [[Bengaluru]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=1 August 2017 |title=Int’l hoopster felicitated |url=https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/archive/ludhiana/int-l-hoopster-felicitated-445149/ |access-date=2025-07-12 |website=The Tribune |language=en}}</ref> She also played for India again in the [[2019 FIBA Women's Asia Cup]] Division A.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Sunam |first=Ashim |date=2019-09-26 |title=Young Indian women basketball players no match for Koreans in continental meet |url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/sport/other/2019/Sep/25/young-indian-women-basketball-players-no-match-for-koreans-in-continental-meet-2039249.html |access-date=2025-07-12 |website=The New Indian Express |language=en}}</ref>

In August 2018, she was selected for the Indian team to take part in the [[2018 Asian Games|Asian Games]], Jakarta, [[Indonesia]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-08-12 |title=Asian Games: Mandya's Bhandavya, Bengaluru's Priyanka in Indian squad |url=https://starofmysore.com/asian-games-mandyas-bhandavya-bengalurus-priyanka-in-indian-squad/ |access-date=2025-07-12 |website=Star of Mysore |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Basketball Anmolpreet Kaur - The 19th Asian Games |url=https://www.ocagames.com/HZInfo/athlete-profile-n2010997-anmolpreet-kaur.htm |access-date=2025-07-12 |website=www.ocagames.com}}</ref>

In December 2022, she joined the [[Yamanashi Queenbees]], one of the teams in Japan’s premier professional basketball league, the WJBL.<ref name=":1" />

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[[Category:1999 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:People from Jalandhar district]]
[[Category:Sportswomen from Punjab, India]]
[[Category:Indian women's basketball players]]
[[Category:Basketball players from Punjab, India]]
[[Category:Basketball players at the 2022 Asian Games]]

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