{"id":874760,"date":"2026-08-31T07:38:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T07:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/874760\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T07:38:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T07:38:17","slug":"4-star-canadian-forward-commits-to-u-of-a-womens-basketball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/874760\/","title":{"rendered":"4-star Canadian forward commits to U of A women\u2019s basketball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Becky Burke and her staff are covering every corner of North America to fill out Arizona\u2019s 2027 recruiting class.<\/p>\n<p>The Wildcats\u2019 latest pickup: four-star forward Ashley Vande Ven of Langley, British Columbia, Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Vande Ven, who\u2019s listed at 6-foot-2, currently plays for Crestwood Preparatory College in Toronto. She also has experience with the Canadian national team.<\/p>\n<p>Vande Ven averaged 8.2 points and 5.2 rebounds in the 2025 FIBA U16 Women\u2019s AmeriCup. She averaged 10.6 points and 7.4 boards in the 2026 FIBA U17 Women\u2019s World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Arizona has a successful history with players from Canada. Guard <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/arizonawildcats.com\/sports\/womens-basketball\/roster\/shaina-pellington\/14549\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Shaina Pellington<\/a> played for the Wildcats from 2020-23, averaging 10.3 points and making the 2023 All-Pac-12 Team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Becky Burke and her staff are covering every corner of North America to fill out Arizona\u2019s 2027 recruiting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":874761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85,12632],"class_list":["post-874760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=874760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/874761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}