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Ottawa BlackJacks reveal training camp roster for 2022 season

By Danielle Bain

Posted May 16, 2022 09:55:10 PM.

The Ottawa BlackJacks of the Canadian Elite Basketball League (CEBL) released its training camp roster ahead of the 2022 season, the team announced on May 16.

The current training camp roster boasts 14 players with more expected to join once their respective international seasons are completed.

Two National Basketball Association experienced players attending camp include forward Deng Adel who played for the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2019 and guard Walt Lemon Jr. who played for both the Chicago Bulls in 2019 and the New Orleans Pelicans in 2018.

Two players on the roster are Ottawa-natives Maxime Boursiquot, a former University of Ottawa Gee-Gee, and Corey Johnson, a graduate of Harvard University who played four seasons of National Collegiate Athletics Association Division I basketball.

Four returning players include Chad Posthumus, Guillaume Pépin, Ryan Wright and Tyrell Green.

Americans Jared Wilson-Frame and Zena Edosomwan along with U Sports players Aiden Warnholtz, Guillaume Pépin, and Nervens Demosthene will wear a BlackJacks jersey for the first time.

The BlackJacks season begins on May 25 against the Fraser Valley Bandits.

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