VCU Rams’ Asare makes Team Canada
Fred Jeter | 7/13/2023, 6 p.m.
Mary-Anna Asare plays basketball for VCU but will represent Canada July15-23 in the FIBAU-19 Women’s World Cup in Madrid.
Asare, a 5-foot-7 sophomore guard from Ontario, is one of five native Canadians on Coach Beth O’Boyle’s Rams roster.
She will play basketball for Team Canada in Spain. The United States has won the 16-nation, every-other year event eight of the past nine times. Canada was third in 2017.
In Madrid, Canada will play in Group D with Egypt, China and the Czech Republic.
VCU has a pipeline to Canada.
Asare is joined on the Rams roster by fellow Canadians Sarah Te-Biasu, Janika Griffith-Wallace, Keowa Walters and Samantha Robinson.
VCU has some history with Canadian men’s players, too. Sherman Hamilton, from Toronto, was the Rams’point guard 1994 to 1997, under Coach Sonny Smith, and later played on the 2000 Canadian Olympic team.
