Shaina Pellington

Shaina Pellington

Personal information
Born	(1999-06-01) June 1, 1999 (age 26) Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Listed height	5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
Listed weight	168 lb (76 kg)
Career information
High school	Dunbarton HS (Pickering, Ontario)
College	Oklahoma (2017–2019) Arizona (2020–present)
Position	Point guard
Number	1
Career highlights
Pac-12 Most Improved Player of the Year (2023) All-Pac 12 Defensive Team (2023) All-Pac 12 Team 2023) Big 12 Freshman of the Year (2018) Big 12 All-Freshman Team (2018)

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

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
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

She is openly lesbian. ^[8]

References

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.

External links

• Arizona Wildcats bio