Aaliyah Edwards

Aaliyah Edwards
	Edwards with UConn in 2022
No. 3 – UConn Huskies
Position	Forward
League	Big East Conference
Personal information
Born	July 9, 2002; Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Nationality	Canadian
Listed height	6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
Listed weight	174 lb (79 kg)
Career information
High school	Crestwood Prep; (Toronto, Ontario)
College	UConn (2020–present)
Career highlights and awards
	Third-team All-American – AP, USBWA (2023); Big East All-Tournament Team (2022); Big East Sixth-Woman of the Year (2021); Big East All-Freshman Team (2021);
Women's basketball
Representing Canada
FIBA Women's AmeriCup
FIBA Americas Under-16 Championship

Aaliyah Edwards (born July 9, 2002) is a Canadian college basketball player for the UConn Huskies of the Big East Conference.

College career

Edwards is currently a junior playing with the UConn Huskies women's basketball team.[1] She is averaging a double-double of 18.3 points and 11.0 boards per game. That is more than twice as good as her sophomore season, when she averaged 7.9 points and 5.1 rebounds per game. The junior forward became the first UConn player with 20 points and 20 rebounds since Maya Moore in 2010.[2]

National team 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.

In July 2021, Edwards was named to Canada's 2020 Olympic team.[3][4]

Personal life

Aaliyah Edwards was born in Kingston, Ontario, to parents Jacqueline and Stanford Edwards. She wears purple and yellow braids to pay homage to the Los Angeles Lakers and Kobe Bryant.

Career statistics

Legend
GP	Games played	GS	Games started	MPG	Minutes per game	RPG	Rebounds per game
APG	Assists per game	SPG	Steals per game	BPG	Blocks per game	PPG	Points per game
TO	Turnovers per game	FG%	Field-goal percentage	3P%	3-point field-goal percentage	FT%	Free-throw percentage
Bold	Career best	°	League leader

College


Year	Team	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	TO	PPG
2020–21	UConn	29	6	21.8	68.9	0.0	63.6	5.7	0.9	1.0	1.0	2.0	10.7
2021–22	UConn	36	26	24.9	52.1	40.0	74.0	5.1	1.4	1.1	0.5	2.1	7.9
2022–23	UConn	15	15	32.1	63.4	100.0	75.4	9.5	2.8	1.0	1.1	2.8	16.5

Awards and honors

Big East All-Tournament team (2023)[5]

References

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.
Gonzalez, Isabel. "Aaliyah Edwards becomes first UConn player with 20 points, 20 rebounds in a game since Maya Moore". CBS Sports. Retrieved 29 December 2022.
"Canada's Tokyo 2020 women's basketball team announced". 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.
Adamec, Carl. "UConn notebook: Sweet repeat for Lopez Sénéchal". Journal Inquirer. Retrieved 2023-03-07.

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[1] 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.

[2] Gonzalez, Isabel. "Aaliyah Edwards becomes first UConn player with 20 points, 20 rebounds in a game since Maya Moore". CBS Sports. Retrieved 29 December 2022.

[3] "Canada's Tokyo 2020 women's basketball team announced". Basketball Canada. 30 June 2021. Retrieved 30 June 2021.

[4] 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.

[5] Adamec, Carl. "UConn notebook: Sweet repeat for Lopez Sénéchal". Journal Inquirer. Retrieved 2023-03-07.