關海珮

English

Kwan Hoi-pui is a Hong Kong women's basketball player who plays as a forward. She captains both the Tsuen Wan club in the local women's A Division and the Chinese University of Hong Kong women's team, and is a member of the Hong Kong, China women's national team. She was steered towards basketball in Primary Five, when a teacher who had first invited her to join the athletics team suggested she switch because of her height. At Baptist Wing Lung Secondary School in Tuen Mun she helped the school reach the semi-finals of the territory-wide inter-school elite basketball tournament for the first time in 2018/19, losing to reigning champions Heep Yunn School. She later transferred to Heep Yunn to push herself out of her comfort zone, commuting daily from Tuen Mun to To Kwa Wan - an experience, she said, that taught her discipline and perseverance. At university she became captain of the Tsuen Wan and CUHK women's teams. Tsuen Wan won both the Hong Kong women's A Division league and the Senior Shield in 2024/25, a success she attributed to the strong team spirit of a squad drawn largely from former Heep Yunn teammates and to the guidance of coach Yam Ming-man, a Heep Yunn vice-principal. She has acknowledged that women's basketball in Hong Kong receives less attention and fewer resources than the men's game but still hopes to turn professional after graduating. Internationally she has played in the FIBA Women's Asia Cup Division B East Asia qualifiers and the FIBA 3x3 Asia Cup, and in 2026 was named to Hong Kong's women's 5x5 squad for the 20th Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya, where she played in the group game against Kazakhstan. Her favourite player is the American JuJu Watkins, whose all-round style she sees as similar to her own.