Shaina Pellington Explained

Shaina Pellington
League:Pac-12 Conference
Team:Arizona Wildcats
Number:1
College:Oklahoma (2017–2019)
Arizona (2020–present)
High School:Dunbarton HS
(Pickering, Ontario)
Birth Place:Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Birth Date:1 June 1999
Position:Point guard
Weight Lbs:168
Height In:8
Height Ft:5
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Shaina Pellington (born June 1, 1999) is a Canadian basketball player for the Arizona Wildcats of the Pac-12 Conference.

She played for the Canada Women's National Basketball team. She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics.[1] [2] [3]

She participated at the 2021 FIBA Women's AmeriCup.[4] [5]

College

She began her US college basketball career at the University of Oklahoma in 2017, playing there two seasons until transferring to the University of Arizona. After sitting out the 2019–20 season due to NCAA transfer rules, she became a key substitute for a Wildcats team that went on to narrowly lose in the national championship game to conference rival Stanford.[6]

Career statistics

College

|-| style="text-align:left;"| 2017–18| style="text-align:left;"| Oklahoma|31||20||27.3||49.2||0.0||59.1||2.7||2.2||0.8||0.1||2.9||13.1 |-| style="text-align:left;"| 2018–19| style="text-align:left;"| Oklahoma|23||12||23.3||41.1||13.7||60.6||3.6||2.8||1.0||0.2||3.1||13.0|-| style="text-align:left;"| 2020–21| style="text-align:left;"| Arizona|27||3||15.6||39.5||5.3||45.0||1.9||1.0||0.6||0.1||1.0||5.8|-| style="text-align:left;"| 2021–22| style="text-align:left;"| Arizona|27||27||24.0||43.7||26.2||64.0||2.5||2.4||1.5||0.0||1.6||11.3|-| style="text-align:left;"| 2022–23| style="text-align:left;"| Arizona|30||29||27.9||53.7||20.0||63.5||3.0||3.6||1.8||0.3||1.7||13.4 |- class="sortbottom"|style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"|Career|138||91||23.8||46.3||17.1||60.0||2.7||2.4||1.2||0.1||2.0||11.4|- class="sortbottom"|style="text-align:center;" colspan="14"|Statistics retrieved from Sports-Reference.[7]

Personal life

She is openly lesbian.[8]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Canada's Tokyo 2020 women's basketball team announced. 2021-07-08. www.basketball.ca. en.
  2. News: Olympic dream comes true for Arizona point guard Shaina Pellington. en. Arizona Desert Swarm. 2021-07-08.
  3. Web site: Basketball - PELLINGTON Shaina. dead. 2021-08-29. Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. en-us. 2021-08-29. https://web.archive.org/web/20210829200246/https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olympic-games/hi/results/basketball/athlete-profile-n1433004-pellington-shaina.htm.
  4. Web site: Canadian women's basketball team remains perfect at AmeriCup.
  5. Web site: Six from Pac-12 at FIBA Women's AmeriCup 2021. 2021-07-08. Pac-12. en.
  6. Web site: Doss. K.. 2021-07-05. Shaina Pellington ready for 'different role, big shoes to fill' in second season at Arizona. 2021-07-08. Arizona Desert Swarm. en.
  7. Web site: Shaina Pellington College Stats. Sports-Reference. April 10, 2024.
  8. Web site: 2021-07-26. Meet The 13 Gay Women Basketball Players of the Tokyo Summer Olympics. 2021-08-03. Autostraddle. en-US.