Today on the basketball Manitoba Podcast, we have Chiranjit (Chit) Goswami.

He began coaching basketball at Acadia Junior High in 1995 and went on to coach regional and district teams in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

Over the years, he’s coached at multiple Manitoba schools, leaving his mark at each stop. His coaching journey has included:

• Acadia Junior High

• Collège Béliveau (JV and Varsity Boys)

• JH Bruns Collegiate (JV Girls)

• Fort Richmond Collegiate (JV Girls), where he helped lead the team to a 2010 Provincial Championship and took home coach of the year honours

• Miles Macdonell Collegiate (Varsity Boys)

Since 2007, he has been a cornerstone of the Winnipeg Wolves Basketball Club and currently serves as the club’s Director of Operations. His Wolves Boys teams have won five Club Provincial Championships, and he has helped develop athletes who have gone on to play at the next level.

From 2010 to 2011, he served as Head Coach of the Manitoba 14U Boys Provincial Team, leading them to a silver medal at the Western Canada Summer Games. He served as Assistant Coach of the Manitoba 16U Boys team that won silver at the 2015 Western Canada Summer Games

He is an assistant coach with the Varsity Boys team at Dakota Collegiate and is a member of the Basketball Manitoba Board of Directors and currently chairs the Provincial Team Selection Committee.

Today on the Basketball Manitoba Podcast, we have Megan Noonan.

She is a graduate of Fort Richmond Collegiate and played four summers with the Manitoba Provincial Team. She was ranked in the Top 10 and was named an All-Manitoban in her grade 12 year.

She went on to have a five-year career with the University of Winnipeg Wesmen, where she was a three-time co-captain and a two-time Canada West All-Star, winning a Bronze Medal at the Canada West Final Four. She still ranks among the all-time leaders in three-pointers made in Canada West history.

She returned to Fort Richmond as head coach of the varsity girls' team, leading them to a divisional championship and earning MHSAA Coach of the Year honours in 2020.

She has coached at multiple levels, including head coach of the 17U Female Provincial Team in 2018, TAP South program, U15 Evolve Girls Program and the Mini Ballers grassroots program.

She is currently an assistant coach with the University of Winnipeg Wesmen, mentor coach for the 15U girls provincial team and serves as the Director of Operations for the Winnipeg Sea Bears.

Today on the Basketball Manitoba Podcast, we have Norm Froemel.

He is a graduate of J.H. Bruns Collegiate. He played 2 years on the Manitoba Provincial Teams, winning two Bronze Medals.

He went on to play at the University of Winnipeg for 5 years. There, he was a 3-time GPAC All-Star and a 1-time All-Canadian, averaging 23 points per game in his final season, and is the all-time leading rebounder in Wesmen history.

He represented Canada on numerous occasions at the national level in Argentina, Malaysia, Taiwan, and the United States, winning a silver medal at the World Student Games in Buffalo, New York, in 1993.

He also had a very successful professional career in Germany, where he played for seven years in the Bundesliga Division 1.

After retiring, he returned to Winnipeg to give back as a coach and mentor. He returned to his alma mater, J.H. Bruns, as a teacher and coach. He has also coached with the Manitoba Provincial Team for two years.

He is a member of the Manitoba Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 2013.

He is currently coaching grade 8 girls at Samuel Burland School and is a WMBA Board member.