Daneesha Provo makes North Preston proud with basketball skills

Several colleges and universities in the United States are becoming the benefactors of a growing number of talented basketball players coming from the community of North Preston.

Since she started playing basketball at the age of seven, Daneesha Provo had no problems filling the net.

Next year she'll be attendthe University of Utah on an athletic scholarship.

"I really got along well with the coaches, I liked the location of the school and two of my Canadian national team players play there so I'll be able to play with them," she said.

Next month Provo will be playing with the Canadian Junior Women's National Team at a tournament in Spain and then on tothe world championships in Moscow.

She's one of seven players from the Preston area who will be playing ball in the U.S. next year.

Rodell Wigginton plays for the University of Buffalo. His younger brother, Lindell, will be entering his second year at Oak Hill Academy in Virginia, known as the top basketball prep school in the U.S.

Colter Simmonds coached many of the athletes now playing in the U.S.

"All I want them to do is play at the post-secondary level and to have as minimal debt as possible when they graduate -- the best opportunities for that," he said.

Provo also went through the prep school route.

After she finished Grade 8, she spent the next four school years in Connecticut.