#33 Ashreen Mridha 🇧🇩 - Women’s empowerment through basketball

<p>🇧🇩 Ashreen Mridha is the former captain of Bangladesh national basketball team and co-founder of Deshi Ballers, a women-led organization on a mission to:&nbsp;</p><p>-empower women and girls through basketball;</p><p>-advocate for equal rights for women to access sports;</p><p>-and promote basketball in a cricket and football-dominated country.</p><br><p>🏀 She walks us through her journey from discovering basketball as a school kid to creating the first university’s women league and joining the first-ever national women team.</p><p>💪 She shares how basketball taught her the values of teamwork, care and discipline, how she grew the Deshi Ballers community and her dreams to set up the first national women’s basketball league in Bangladesh!</p><br><p>Hope you are as excited as me to learn more about empowerment through sports! :)</p><br><p>❤️ <strong>TIMELINE:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>12’ - The pioneer of women basketball in Bangladesh</p><p>25’ - Basketball teaches you teamwork and discipline</p><p>36’ - A good coach can train you to get better, a great coach can change your life</p><p>46’ - Learning from the San Antonio’s Spurs through the Global Sports Mentoring Program</p><p>56’ - The birth of Deshi Ballers and its recipe for success</p><p>73’ - Impact stories of Deshi Ballers</p><p>94’ - Empowering the next generation of women basketball players in Bangladesh</p><br><p>🗒️<strong> REFERENCES:</strong></p><p>Follow Deshi Ballers on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/DeshiBallers/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Facebook</a> and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/deshiballers/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Instagram</a></p><p>About the <a href="https://globalsportsmentoring.org/global-sports-mentor-program/emerging-leaders/ashreen-mridha/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Global Sports Mentoring Program</a>.</p><p>Netflix’s show about coaching - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iapq84suC3c" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Playbook</a>.</p><p>Connect with Ashreen