basketball star
sentilla bubb making big
decisions
By Scott Taylor, Photos courtesy of the Bubb Family
It would appear
that Therese
Bubb’s beautiful
family just
seems to get
more talented
Sentilla Bubb
every day.
With 22-year-old daughter Siera Bubb
already on a basketball scholarship
at NCAA Division 2 Clark Atlanta
University in Atlanta, Ga., Therese’s
18-year-old younger daughter Sentilla
Bubb, has accepted a basketball
scholarship offer to St. Lawrence
College in Kingston, Ontario.
“Sentilla just turned 18 in March and
will be graduated from Sisler in June,”
said her mom. “She’s played basketball
since she was 5 with the WMBA. She
went on to play on several club teams
– Mayhem, Wolves and then Magic. She
still plays with Magic because her coach
for Magic, is also her coach at Sisler,
Michael Tan.
“Sentilla was on undefeated teams in
Grade 9 and 10 and they won both the
City and Provincial championships. In
Grade 11, Sisler was undefeated but lost
in the championship game. In Grade
12, however, Sentilla’s Sisler team not
only went undefeated, but won the
Provincial Championship.”
It was Sisler’s first provincial
Championship and Sentilla played a
major role. Meanwhile, she also played
for Team Manitoba at the Western
Canada Games and brought home
the silver medal after Team Manitoba
lost by a single point in the gold medal
game.
“Sentilla was also a part of history last
summer,” added Therese, “when she
played on Team Manitoba and won the
province’s first National Championship
in Edmonton.”
Sentilla, who has been named an
all-star at many tournaments during
her basketball career, also played
rugby for Sisler and won the provincial
championship in Brandon last year. She
won two Player of the Week Awards this
past season and received two major
awards at the Basketball Manitoba
Awards Ceremony last spring.
Siera Bubb at
Clark Atlantic University
Sisler Coach Michael Tan with Sentilla Bubb
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“She also plays flag football, the
youngest player on her team in a senior
women’s league,” said Therese. “Sentilla
has definitely taken the same path
as her sister Siera who got basketball
scholarships at both East Georgia
College (JC) and at Division 2 Clark
Sentilla and the champion Sisler Spartans
Atlanta University.”
Not surprisingly, Siera and Sentilla are
not the only talented members of the
extended Bubb family.
“The girls are the older cousins
of Trechelle Bunn who just won the
bronze medal with Team Manitoba in
the women’s division of the National
Aboriginal Hockey Championships in
Halifax,” said Therese. “Also they have a
niece (Allaiya) and a nephew (Jesiah) –
my grandchildren – that play hockey in
Manitoba.
“Allaiya is 14 and goes to Starbuck
Hockey Academy and has played
hockey on the AA Assiniboine Park
Rangers for the past two years and
Jesiah is 11 and also goes to Starbuck
Hockey Academy and played for the
Phoenix Flames 10 A-1 last winter and
the Manitoba Xtreme for spring league.
“We have a number of athletes in our
family.”
Indeed. l