Vernon basketball player suits up for Canada in 3\u00d73 play in Tokyo<\/p>\n
Published 10:00 am Friday, July 31, 2026<\/p>\n
A Vernon basketball player will spend the August long weekend overseas representing her country.<\/p>\n
Cassandra Brown has been named to Canada\u2019s roster for the FIBA (Federation of International Basketball Association) 3 x 3 Women\u2019s Series stop in Tokyo Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 1 and 2.<\/p>\n
Returning to the roster are Brown, Paige Crozon (Humboldt, Sask.), Katherine Plouffe (Edmonton), and Merissah Russell (Ottawa), the same quartet that helped Canada finish runner-up at the Marseille stop in France July 4. <\/p>\n
Canada lost 15-9 to Neftchi SOCAR of Azerbaijan in the Marseille final.<\/p>\n
Crozon, Plouffe and Russell all finished among the tournament\u2019s top-five in player value, while Brown played a key role in Canada\u2019s semifinal win over France, shooting a perfect 100 per cent from the field. <\/p>\n
The group will look to build on that performance and make another run to the final in Tokyo.<\/p>\n
Canada enters the tournament in Japan as the No. 2 seed and has been drawn into Pool B alongside Mitsubishi Electric (JPN) and Romania. <\/p>\n
Round-robin play begins Saturday, August 1, against Romania at 12:50 a.m. PT, followed by Mitsubishi Electric (JPN) at 2:50 a.m. PT. <\/p>\n
All games will be streamed live on CBC Gem and FIBA 3\u00d73\u2019s YouTube channel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vernon basketball player suits up for Canada in 3\u00d73 play in Tokyo Published 10:00 am Friday, July 31,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":838663,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":["post-838662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838662","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=838662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/838663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}