{"id":862345,"date":"2026-08-18T09:22:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T09:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/862345\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T09:22:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T09:22:21","slug":"canadian-women-dunk-senegal-72-57-in-olympic-pre-qualifying-tournament-opener-nanaimonewsnow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/862345\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian women dunk Senegal 72-57 in Olympic pre-qualifying tournament opener | NanaimoNewsNOW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1787044941_0_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Canada Basketball named Nell Fortner as the next head coach of the senior women\u2019s national team on May 5, 2025, signalling the start of a new chapter. (AP Photo\/Stew Milne)<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tAug 17, 2026 | 10:22 PM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>GUADALAJARA \u2014 Kayla Alexander scored a team-high 16 points and hauled in seven rebounds as Canada\u2019s senior women\u2019s national basketball team opened the FIBA Olympic pre-qualifying tournament with a 72-57 win over Senegal on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Syla Swords and Delaney Gibb both chipped in with 13 points for Canada.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s a good start for us. You always want to start with a win,\u201d said Canadian head coach Nell Fortner. \u201cI thought we played really tough and did a good job on the boards. We know Senegal is a very, very good rebounding team and tough to keep off the boards, so it\u2019s nice to win that battle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just nice to get that first win under our belt.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canada Basketball named Nell Fortner as the next head coach of the senior women\u2019s national team on May&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":862346,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[879,49,48,2467,2461,2468,2460,2462,2463,44,2464,2465,2466,82],"class_list":["post-862345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-breaking-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-central-vancouver-island","tag-nanaimo","tag-nanaimo-breaking-news","tag-nanaimo-news","tag-nanaimo-news-now","tag-nanaimonewsnow","tag-news","tag-oceanside","tag-parksville","tag-qualicum","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862345","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=862345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/862346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}