Aaliyah Edwards
 Edwards with UConn in 2022 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| No. 3 – UConn Huskies | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Forward | ||||||||||||||||||||
| League | Big East Conference | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | July 9, 2002 Kingston, Ontario | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Canadian | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Listed height | 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Listed weight | 174 lb (79 kg) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| High school | Crestwood Prep (Toronto, Ontario) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| College | UConn (2020–present) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Aaliyah Edwards (born July 9, 2002) is a Canadian college basketball player for the UConn Huskies of the Big East Conference.[1]
Career
Edwards has won silver at the 2017 FIBA Under-16 Women's Americas Championship as part of the junior team, and then silver with the senior team at the 2019 FIBA Women's AmeriCup.[1] Edwards is currently playing with the UConn Huskies women's basketball team.[2]
In July 2021, Edwards was named to Canada's 2020 Olympic team.[3][4]
References
- ^ a b "Aaliyah Edwards". www.olympic.ca/. Canadian Olympic Committee. Retrieved 3 July 2021.
- ^ Ewing, Lori (17 February 2021). "Canada's Aaliyah Edwards shining in freshman season unlike any other at UConn". Canadian Press. Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Retrieved 11 July 2021.
- ^ "Canada's Tokyo 2020 women's basketball team announced". www.basketball.ca/. Basketball Canada. 30 June 2021. Retrieved 30 June 2021.
- ^ Awad, Brandi (29 June 2021). "Team Canada's women's basketball squad ready to shoot for Olympic podium". Canadian Olympic Committee. Retrieved 29 June 2021.
External links
- UConn Huskies bio
- Aaliyah Edwards at FIBA
- Aaliyah Edwards at Team Canada
- Aaliyah Edwards at Olympics.com
- Aaliyah Edwards at Olympedia
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- 2002 births
- Living people
- Basketball people from Ontario
- Black Canadian basketball players
- Canadian expatriate basketball people in the United States
- Canadian women's basketball players
- Sportspeople from Kingston, Ontario
- UConn Huskies women's basketball players
- Basketball players at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Olympic basketball players of Canada
- Canadian basketball biography stubs