Akanksha Singh

Akanksha Singh (born 7 September 1989 in Varanasi Uttar Pradesh) is an Indian basketball player and former captain of the India Women's National Basketball Team.

In 2003, Akanksha Singh made her debut in the Senior Nationals and played for the Uttar Pradesh team when she was just an 11th grader.

She has played for the national team since 2004.

She and her sisters, Divya, Prashanti, and Pratima are known as the "fantastic four" of the Indian women's basketballers, and are also known as the "Singh Sisters".

In 2004, she followed her sisters' footsteps on the Delhi team.

In 2010, Akanksha was awarded the Most Valuable Player in India's first professional basketball league, the MPBL.

Her name was forever cemented in the Indian basketball history books as one of the first-ever top four players to achieve the "A Grade" from the Basketball Federation of India sponsored by IMG Reliance.

She is often called the "small wonder" in basketball.

She has been awarded Best Player in many national and state championships.

In her captaincy at the University of Delhi, she won a gold medal in the All India University basketball championship at Nellore, where she was given joint best player award along with her sister Pratima Singh.

Singh comes from a family of basketball players.

She completed her undergraduate studies at St. Stephen’s College, Delhi.

Her sisters Divya, Prashanti, and Pratima have represented the Indian National Women's Basketball Team.

Oldest among the sisters is Priyanka, who is a National Institute of Sports basketball coach.

Her sister Divya worked with the University of Delaware basketball team.

Her brother Vikrant Solanki is a football player In the I-league and Santosh Trophy competitions.