Linda
Bosele
#09
Nicknames : Big L
Point Classification : 4.5
Position : Shooting Guard
Home residence : Morokweng/ Kuruman
Present Club(s) : GBT Mongoose (South Africa)
Personal Motto : Work hard, play harder
Instagram/ FB : @lindabosele
Linda
Bosele
#09
Nicknames : Big L
Point Classification : 4.5
Position : Shooting Guard
Home residence : Morokweng/ Kuruman
Present Club(s) : GBT Mongoose (South Africa)
Personal Motto : Work hard, play harder
Instagram/ FB : @lindabosele
Biography/Experience
Linda joined the basketball team in 2005 when completing her Secondary education.
Linda Bosele has joined the GBT Mongoose Club around 2005. Since then she has been a steady member. She soon was identified as a lady with talent and selected consecutively into the NW ladies team, which she has captained since its formal inception as the North West Stinging Bees. She also has been a permanent member of the National ladies team, first in the U25 category and later in the Senior Women National Team until to date.
In 2022 Linda started venturing into coaching, assisting the Mongoose team participating in the Jomo Khumalo Shield while still in training. Adding a WBSA level 1 coaching license in 2023 to her portfolio, she looks forward to coaching the lady team of the club during the PCCL. She continues to display passion and guides younger players at the National level. She has won several MVP awards in the National woman’s league over the years. In 2023 Linda received the award “Sports Woman with a disability” of the North West Province.
Major achievements (Accolades & Competition levels):
Order of personal achievements from recent backwards
- [2023] Sportswoman with a disability of North West Province; NW Stinging Bees position 2 in Supa-Bets National Womens League; MVP
- [2022] NW Stinging Bees position 2 in Supa-Bets National Womens League
- [2021] NW Stinging Bees Gold in Vodacom Challenge Womens Top Four; MVP
- [2020] NW Stinging Bees Gold in Vodacom Challenge Womens Top Four; MVP
- [2019] NW Stinging Bees Gold in Vodacom Challenge Womens’ Top Four; All stars award
- [2018] NW Stinging Bees Gold in Womens’ Vodacom Challenge; MVP
- [2017] Vodacom Challenge MVP
- [2023] Sportswoman with a disability of North West Province; NW Stinging Bees position 2 in Supa-Bets National Womens League; MVP
- [2022] NW Stinging Bees position 2 in Supa-Bets National Womens League
- [2021] NW Stinging Bees Gold in Vodacom Challenge Womens Top Four; MVP
- [2020] NW Stinging Bees Gold in Vodacom Challenge Womens Top Four; MVP
- [2019] NW Stinging Bees Gold in Vodacom Challenge Womens’ Top Four; All stars award
- [2018] NW Stinging Bees Gold in Womens’ Vodacom Challenge; MVP
- [2017] Vodacom Challenge MVP
- [2023] Sportswoman with a disability of North West Province; NW Stinging Bees position 2 in Supa-Bets National Womens League; MVP
- [2022] NW Stinging Bees position 2 in Supa-Bets National Womens League
- [2021] NW Stinging Bees Gold in Vodacom Challenge Womens Top Four; MVP
- [2020] NW Stinging Bees Gold in Vodacom Challenge Womens Top Four; MVP
- [2019] NW Stinging Bees Gold in Vodacom Challenge Womens’ Top Four; All stars award
- [2018] NW Stinging Bees Gold in Womens’ Vodacom Challenge; MVP
- [2017] Vodacom Challenge MVP
Coach’s Reference:
Linda is an experienced player and captain, pulling her team together. She is hard on attack and dominates the games she plays. Her quality as a leading figure in South African women wheelchair basketball has been recognized by the successive MVP awards she has under her belt. ”
– Mmatumelo Rauter (GBT Mongoose Manager)
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