Kia Nurse, Aaliyah Edwards Named to Canada 2024 Olympic Roster

TORONTO – UConn women's basketball alumnae Kia Nurse '18 and Aaliyah Edwards '24 were named to the 12-player roster that will represent Canada at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games this summer, Canada Basketball and the Canadian Olympic Committee announced Tuesday.

This is Nurse's third Olympic appearance after representing Canada at Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020.

Edwards was drafted by the Washington Mystics in April, graduated from UConn in May and will make her second Olympic appearance in July.

Canada Basketball's senior women's national team successfully qualified for their fourth consecutive Olympic Games by finishing third in one of four FIBA Women's Olympic Qualification Tournaments this past February. Paris 2024 will be Team Canada's eighth appearance in the Olympic women's basketball tournament since it debuted at Montreal 1976. It will be the first time in 24 years (Sydney 2000) that Canada's women's and men's basketball teams will compete together at an Olympic Games.

Canada's best Olympic result in women's basketball was a fourth-place finish at Los Angeles 1984. Currently fifth in the FIBA rankings, Canada also finished fourth at the most recent FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup in 2022.

The women's basketball tournament will take place from July 27 to August 11 (Day 1 to 16). Pierre Mauroy Stadium in Lille will host the preliminary phase before the final phase shifts to Paris and Bercy Arena.  Canada's first tournament game will be on July 29 (11:15 a.m. ET / 9:15 a.m. MT) against host France.