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Shaina Pellington

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Shaina Pellington
No. 1 – Arizona Wildcats
PositionPoint guard
LeaguePac-12 Conference
Personal information
Born (1999-06-01) June 1, 1999 (age 25)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Listed height5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
Listed weight168 lb (76 kg)
Career information
High schoolDunbarton HS
(Pickering, Ontario)
CollegeOklahoma (2017–2019)
Arizona (2020–present)
Career highlights and awards

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

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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

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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

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Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG TO PPG
2017–18 Oklahoma 31 20 27.3 49.2 0.0 59.1 2.7 2.2 0.8 0.1 2.9 13.1
2018–19 Oklahoma 23 12 23.3 41.1 13.7 60.6 3.6 2.8 1.0 0.2 3.1 13.0
2020–21 Arizona 27 3 15.6 39.5 5.3 45.0 1.9 1.0 0.6 0.1 1.0 5.8
2021–22 Arizona 27 27 24.0 43.7 26.2 64.0 2.5 2.4 1.5 0.0 1.6 11.3
2022–23 Arizona 30 29 27.9 53.7 20.0 63.5 3.0 3.6 1.8 0.3 1.7 13.4
Career 138 91 23.8 46.3 17.1 60.0 2.7 2.4 1.2 0.1 2.0 11.4
Statistics retrieved from Sports-Reference.[7]

Personal life

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She is openly lesbian.[8]

References

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  1. ^ "Canada's Tokyo 2020 women's basketball team announced". www.basketball.ca. Retrieved 2021-07-08.
  2. ^ "Olympic dream comes true for Arizona point guard Shaina Pellington". Arizona Desert Swarm. Retrieved 2021-07-08.
  3. ^ "Basketball - PELLINGTON Shaina". Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 2021-08-29. Retrieved 2021-08-29.
  4. ^ "Canadian women's basketball team remains perfect at AmeriCup".
  5. ^ "Six from Pac-12 at FIBA Women's AmeriCup 2021". Pac-12. 10 June 2021. Retrieved 2021-07-08.
  6. ^ Doss, K. (2021-07-05). "Shaina Pellington ready for 'different role, big shoes to fill' in second season at Arizona". Arizona Desert Swarm. Retrieved 2021-07-08.
  7. ^ "Shaina Pellington College Stats". Sports-Reference. Retrieved April 10, 2024.
  8. ^ "Meet The 13 Gay Women Basketball Players of the Tokyo Summer Olympics". Autostraddle. 2021-07-26. Retrieved 2021-08-03.
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