NORLHA BASKETBALL 2019
Year of the Earth Pig
(in-person activities currently postponed due to Covid border closures; online projects include Project Bōlō སྤོ་ལོ།: Tibetan Basketball Development Guide)
Norlha Men’s Team
ཕོ
Korchan Jyap འཁོར་ཆེན་སྐྱབས།
Nomad, brother is a basketball-playing monk at local Monastery, from the White Horse clan
Gonlo མགོན་པོ་སྐྱབས།
One of the best weavers at Norlha, father of 3, from the Golden Stone clan
Gathap དཀའ་ཐུབ།
Nomad, from the Golden Stone clan
Dugya Bum འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་འབུམ།
Full-time player, former Norlha Dyer, model, father of 2, wife Lhamo Tso plays on women’s team, brother is a basketball-playing monk at Ritoma Monastery, from the Golden Stone clan
Dunkar Jyap སྒྲོལ་དཀར་སྐྱབས།
Nomad, grandfather and older sister work at Norlha, from the Black River clan
Jamwhol འཇམ་དཔལ།
Norlha jacquard weaver, father of 2, wife Jamyang Dolma plays on the women’s team, from the Horse’s Saddle Clan
Lumko ཀླུམ་གོ།
Nomad, from the White Horse clan
Chuchon Jyap ཆོས་སྐྱོང་སྐྱབས།
Full-time player at Norlha, father of 2, from the White Horse clan
Dorjee Tsering རྡོ་རྗེ་ཚེ་རིང་།
Team Manager, wife Tsering Kyi plays on the women’s team, married into the village from a nearby region called Jone
Lhamo ལྷ་མོ།
Nomad, father of 2, from the Rock Valley clan
Norlha Women’s Team
མོ
Lhamo Tso ལྷ་མོ་འཚོ།
Tailor at Norlha, Mother of 2, from the Old Winter clan
Tsering Kyi ཚེ་རིང་སྐྱིད།
Tailor at Norlha, family owns a local restaurant and store, from the Old Winter clan
Tangzi Kyi ཏིང་འཛིན་སྐྱིད།
Tailor at Norlha, Mother of 1, from the Rock Valley clan
Tangzi Tso རྟ་མགྲིན་འཚོ།
Showroom Assistant at Norlha, from the White Horse clan
Jamyang Dolma འཇམ་དབྱངས་སྒྲོལ་མ།
Tailor and model at Norlha, Mother of 2, Husband plays on Men’s Team, from the Horse’s Saddle clan
Wema Thar པདྨ་ཐར།
Housekeeper and Model at Norlha, from the Old Winter clan
Wandi Tso བནྡེ་འཚོ།
E-Commerce Assistant at Norlha, Mother of 2, Horse’s Saddle Clan
Coaches & Management
Head Coach: Willard “Bill” Johnson
Norlha E-Commerce, lives part-time in the main sub-village - Village of Nuns - in Ritoma
General Manager: Jampa བྱམས་པ།
Norlha’s Sourcing Manager, Poet, from the Golden Stone clan
Board of Directors
Monastic Advisors
Aku Dawo Gyamtso ཟླ་འོད་རྒྱ་མཚོ།
Aku Sonam Takba བསོད་ནམས་གྲགས་པ།
Aku Shirip Gyamtso ཤེས་རབ་རྒྱ་མཚོ།
International Partners
International Alumni: Past Volunteer Coaches, Visiting Players & Tour Participants
Connor Ball - USA
Lola Ball - USA
Abby Bartolotta - WNBA draftee, Team USA, Gatorade National High School Player of the Year, Duke University
Jimmy Bartolotta - Overseas Pro, Division III National Player of the Year, MIT
Emily Becklund - USA
Cece Black - Seattle Sonics Wheelchair Basketball
Paul Burkard - MIT
Rochelle Coleman - Overseas Pro, PeacePlayers, Syracuse University
Mike Cristina - MIT
Beverly Cristina - USA
Rob Cross - Vanderbilt
Steve DeGruccio - USA
Will Dickson - MIT
Tim Donegan - MIT
Jackson Dunn - Australia
Isaac Eger - USA
Carly Fromdahl - Seattle University
Corey Garvey - USA
Allana Gerhardt - QBL, Australia
Kendall George - USA
Ashley Graham - Overseas Pro, Guinness World Record Holder (Most Free-Throws in a Minute), Santa Clara University
Andrew Greenblatt - Swarthmore College
Howard Haggett - USA
Mary Haggett - USA
Steve Hawes - NBA (Atlanta Hawks, Seattle Supersonics), University of Washington
Skyler Hicks - USA
Aleisha Howey - QBL, Australia
Danya Joy - USA
Jamie Karraker - MIT
Mike Kentz - Georgetown University Club Team
Emily Latham - United Kingdom
Louie Lazar - USA
Jeff Lehman - USA
Dennis Levene - MIT
Luke Luciani - USA
Brittany Lyte - USA
Tayla Marks - Australia
Dylan Moss - Australia
Alana Nichols - 3-time Gold Medal Paralympian, Team USA Wheelchair Basketball
Britt Noel - USA
Brad O’Brien - SBL, Australia
Garry O’Brien - Australia
Samm O’Brien - Australia
Wendy O’Brien - Australia
Alana Pols - Australia
Slobodan Radoman - Montenegro
Nick Sather - MIT
Maya Shyangtan - Nepal National Team
Andrew Taylor - USA
Ethan Timmins-Schiffman - Williams College
Kevin Van Witt - USA
Sondra Zemansky - USA