{"id":498211,"date":"2026-02-25T08:59:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T08:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/498211\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T08:59:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T08:59:13","slug":"canada-west-names-oss-athlete-of-the-week-following-historic-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/498211\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada West names Oss Athlete of the Week following historic win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                     CALGARY \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/godinos.com\/sports\/womens-basketball\/roster\/kourtney-oss\/16830\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"16830\" target=\"_blank\">Kourtney Oss<\/a> of the University of Calgary Dinos has been named the Canada West BioSteel Women&#8217;s Basketball Athlete of the Week, the league office announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>In what was the epitome of a team win, the fourth-year guard played a huge role in the Dinos 61-58 upset win at No. 1 Saskatchewan in the Canada West semifinals.<\/p>\n<p>Oss finished with 11 points and tied for a game-high 11 rebounds for her second double-double of the postseason and her seventh of the year. As part of a suffocating defensive performance by the Dinos team, Oss also helped frustrate the Huskies all night long. She added two steals to go with two highlight-reel blocks, as the Dinos became the first team to defeat the top-ranked Huskies in 2025-26.<\/p>\n<p>The Dinos now head to Saturday&#8217;s Canada West Final, where they will take on UBC in Vancouver. Tipoff is scheduled for 3 p.m. MT.<\/p>\n<p>-UC-<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; CALGARY \u2013 Kourtney Oss of the University of Calgary Dinos has been named the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":498212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-498211","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}