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Basketball | 01.07.10 | 16:46

Home Court: Diaspora and non-Armenian hoop women happy to wear Hayastan basketball colors

By Karine Ionesyan
ArmeniaNow reporter
Two United States-trained Armenian basketball players and one American now playing for Armenia in the ongoing European Division C Championship in Yerevan, are enjoying playing to Armenia’s enthusiastic fans, even if in the lowest of professional divisions.

Having lived oversees since infancy, Christine Kepenekian, 24, and Arpine Amirkhanian, who turned 21 on Wednesday, very occasionally played under Armenia’s flag as part of the Ararat team, in Glendale, California. And (non-Armenian) American Amanda Jackson, 25, helped Armenia’s revived team, Hatis, make a little bit of history in Armenian basketball by reaching the playoff stage in a prestigious European club tournament earlier this season.

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