Sanjana Ramesh

Sanjana Ramesh (born 12 April 2001) is an Indian basketball player from Bengaluru. She plays for the India national basketball team and the Karnataka in the Indian National Championships. She also represented Northern Arizona Lumberjacks of the Big Sky Conference. She was part of the Indian women's team in the 2022 Asian Games at Hangzhou, China.

Early life Sanjana was born in Chennai and grew up in Bangalore, Karnataka. She attended Delhi Public School (South), Bengaluru. Sanjana started playing basketball because her school did not have a football team. She wanted to prove as a sportswoman to her brother, a footballer, and ended up taking basketball as a career.

College career In November 2018, Sanjana signed to play college basketball at Northern Arizona University, becoming the second Indian female basketball player to earn an NCAA Division I scholarship after Kavita Akula, who enrolled at Grand Canyon University in 2017. In 2020, Sanjana received the Golden Eagle Scholar-Athlete Award recipient.

National team career Sanjana captained the India women's national under-16 basketball team at the 2017 FIBA U16 Women's Asian Championship. She helped India win Division B and the country earned a spot in Division A. At the development camp of Basketball Without Borders Asia, Sanjana was awarded the Most Valuable Player that helped her get the US college scholarship. The Indian team played Maldives and Nepal for a berth in the FIBA women's Asia Cup. In the first match, India beat Nepal 113–32 on 23 February 2025. She played both the matches.

In July 2025, she was part of the Indian team at the FIBA Women’s Asia Cup 2025 Division B at Shenzhen, China.