A pair of point guards from the capital, Orleans' Courtnay Pilypaitis and Ottawa's Kadie Riverin, will both be in Team Canada's backcourt for the FIBA U21 World Championship for Women which begins next week in Moscow. (The roster was named today.)
Riverin, a Glebe Collegiate alumna, is entering her senior year of U.S. college hoops at Rice University in Houston, where she's been the starting point guard for the past two seasons and has shown a bit of a knack for lighting it up in big games. (She had 23 points, twice her average, in Rice's season-ending loss, and the year before, put up a career-high 25 in the last game of the season.)
Pilypaitis, out of St. Peter's, was a freshman all-everything last winter in her first season at the University of Vermont. She was one of just four freshmen in NCAA Division 1 women's basketball to led her team in scoring. The team also includes forward Krysten Boogaard, the 6-foot-3 little sister of Minnesota Wild enforcer Derek Boogaard.
On another Canada Basketball note, Mark Wacyk of cishoops.ca is reporting that Ottawa's Garry Gallimore, Gatineau's J.P. Morin (who plays for the Laval Rouge et Or) and U of O Gee-Gees guard Josh Gibson-Bascombe each look to have a strong chance to play for Canada at the World University Games later this summer in Thailand.
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