Canterbury-born Harriet Yea has been called up to both the Great Britain under-20 and senior basketball squads ahead of this summer’s important European campaigns.

The 19-year-old has just finished her first season in the top flight of British women's basketball with the Rhondda Rebels, where she won the EBL Championship, National Cup and National Trophy.

"I love playing basketball and to play such an intense schedule for the whole summer should be fantastic," she said.

The guard started playing at school and progressed on to boys’ club Canterbury Jazz (now Kent Crusaders) and then on to a team called SECRETS.

"I started basketball when I was about 12,. We played at school one day and I said to my mum that I liked it and wanted to find a basketball team.

"The only local club we could find was an all-boys team called Canterbury Jazz, so I started to train with them and was there for about three years. After that I joined a team called SECRETS where Radmilla Turner and Mike Humphrey coached.

"Mike was the one who really got me involved in basketball and he really believed in me and could see the potential that I had."