The Eneos Sunflowers are a basketball team based in

Kashiwa is a city located in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 433,436 in 194,216 households and a population density of 3800 persons per km². The total area of the city is . The name of the city is written with a si ...

Chiba Chiba may refer to: Places China * (), town in Jianli County, Jingzhou, Hubei Japan * Chiba (city), capital of Chiba Prefecture ** Chiba Station, a train station * Chiba Prefecture, a sub-national jurisdiction in the Greater Tokyo Area on ...

, playing in the Women's Japan Basketball League.

Notable players

* Clarissa Davis *

Manami Fujioka Manami Fujioka (藤岡麻菜美 born 1 February 1994) is a Japanese professional basketball player. Career WJBL Fujioka began her professional career with the Kashiwa-based JX–ENEOS Sunflowers, for the 2016–17 season. National Team Youth Le ...

* Mikiko Hagiwara *

Saki Hayashi , nicknamed Kiki, is a Japanese professional basketball player. She plays for Japan women's national basketball team. She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics, winning a silver medal. Career She plays for JX-Eneos Sunflowers The Eneos Sunf ...

Hiromi Kawabata Hiromi Kawabata (川畑宏美, born 23 March 1979) is a Japanese former basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary obj ...

Noriko Koiso Noriko Koiso (née Hamaguchi, 小磯典子、旧姓濱口、born 15 January 1974) is a Japanese former basketball player who competed in the 1996 Summer Olympics and in the 2004 Summer Olympics The 2004 Summer Olympics ( el, Θερινοί ...

Mari Konno is a Japanese former basketball player who competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics The 2004 Summer Olympics ( el, Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 2004, ), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad ( el, Αγώνες της 2 ...

Kaori Kusuda Kaori Kusuda (née Kawakami, 楠田香穂里、旧姓川上、born 29 May 1974) is a Japanese former basketball player who competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics The 2004 Summer Olympics ( el, Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες ...

Yuka Mamiya is a Japanese basketball player. She represented Japan in the basketball competition at the 2016 Summer Olympics The 2016 Summer Olympics ( pt, Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad ( pt, Jogos da XXXI ...

* Katrina McClain Johnson * Yuki Miyazawa * Yuko Oga *

Taeko Oyama Taeko Oyama (大山妙子, born 18 June 1974) is a Japanese former basketball player who competed in the 1996 Summer Olympics and in the 2004 Summer Olympics The 2004 Summer Olympics ( el, Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 2 ...

Masami Tachikawa Masami Tachikawa (立川真紗美, born 16 November 1980) is a Japanese basketball player who competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics The 2004 Summer Olympics ( el, Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 2004, ), officially the Games ...

Ramu Tokashiki is a Japanese professional basketball player for the JX-Eneos Sunflowers of the Women's Japan Basketball League (WJBL). Career WJBL Tokashiki has played for the JX-Eneos Sunflowers, a team based in Kashiwa, since their 2010–11 season whe ...

Ryoko Yano Ryoko Yano (矢野良子, born 20 December 1978) is a Japanese basketball player who competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics. Awards *Women's Japan Basketball League The Women's Japan Basketball League is the premier women's basketball league i ...

* Asami Yoshida (basketball)

Head coaches

* Kazuo Nakamura (basketball) * Tomohide Utsumi *

Kiyomi Sato is a current basketball head coach for JX-Eneos Sunflowers in Japan and the former head coach for Tokoha University is a private university in the Aoi ward of Shizuoka City, Japan. The predecessor of the school was founded in 1946, and it w ...

Tom Hovasse Thomas Wayne Hovasse (born January 31, 1967) is an American basketball coach and former player. After growing up in Security, Colorado, he played college basketball at Penn State. After not being selected in the 1989 NBA draft, he played profess ...

Eiki Umezaki (Formerly ) is a Japanese company that manufactures LCD and DLP projectors, related accessories and overhead projectors. History Eiki was founded in 1953 in Osaka, Japan by four founders (M. Matsuura, S. Yagi, K. Sekino and Y. Minagawa). Ini ...

References

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External links

Official website
Basketball teams in Japan Basketball teams established in 1969 1969 establishments in Japan