The Steelers have brought in plenty of import firepower in 2022 with Naaman Hightower, Troyce Manassa and Samantha Keltos signing on for the Big V season!
Western Port Championship Men welcome Troyce Manassa. Similarly, to Naaman Troyce is no stranger to the league and the peninsula as he dominated the competition when he played down the coast at Southern Peninsula in 2019. Troyce walked away from the Sharks with a championship, League MVP and All-star 5 where he led the division in scoring with an average of 28 points per game.
Western Port is bringing back big man and someone who quickly became a crowd favourite Naaman Hightower. Naaman signed to play with the Steelers in 2020 but when Covid hit and cancelled the season the week of round one he went home. Naaman is no stranger to the Big V competition after playing for Keysborough in 2019 following graduating from Sonoma State playing NCAA Division 2. Naaman has been applying his trade in Montenegro where he averaged 7 points and 7 rebounds in a team that went 11-1 for the season.
For the women’s program, Western Port is excited to announce the singing of Canadian born Samantha Keltos. Samantha joins the Steelers after graduating from Sir Winston Churchill Secondary School, where she then accepted a full-ride basketball scholarship to an NCAA Division 1 school in New York, St. Francis College. After three seasons, Keltos transferred to Brock (Canada) in 2019/20. Samantha is a big who can stretch the floor currently shooting the ball at 40+% from behind the arc and leading the team with an average of 15 points per game.
