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Olympic Games

Rank	Event	Year	Location
7	Women	2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA

World Cup

Rank	Event	Year	Location
5	Women	2014	Turkey
7	Women	2018	Santa Cruz de Tenerife, ESP

AmeriCup

Rank	Event	Year	Location
1	Women	2017	Buenos Aires, ARG

Kay (Twitter profile, 27 Apr 2020)

Music, running, movies, spending time with friends. (basketball.ca, 01 Apr 2020)

Athlete, Coach

University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA

English

New York Liberty [USA] / University of Canberra Capitals [AUS] since 2018 [Liberty] / 2019 [Capitals]

Walt Hopkins [Liberty]; Paul Gorris [Capitals]; Lisa Thomaidis [national], CAN

Guard (basketball.ca, 01 Apr 2020)

Her father Richard played American football in the Canadian Football League with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats. Her mother Cathy [nee Doucette] played basketball for McMaster University. Her brother Darnell plays ice hockey in the National Hockey League with the Edmonton Oilers. Her sister Tamika played basketball for the University of Oregon and Bowling Green State University and represented Canada at the U19 level. Her aunt Raquel played basketball for Syracuse University and is married to former National Football League quarterback Donovan McNabb. Her cousin Sarah Nurse has represented Canada in ice hockey and competed at the 2015 4 Nations tournament in Sweden. (thestar.com, 16 May 2015; courant.com, 11 Nov 2014; hwcdsb.ca, 01 Jan 2014; morenews-stm.com, 01 Mar 2012)

2013 for Canada Against Czech Republic (basketball.ca, 01 Jun 2016)

WNBA [USA] / Women's National Basketball League [AUS] (elitesportsny.com; 07 Mar 2020; basketball.ca, 01 Apr 2020)

She began playing basketball at age four in Hamilton, ON, Canada. (morenews-stm.com, 01 Mar 2012)

Her mother and her older sister played basketball. (olympic.ca, 01 Jan 2015)

To win a medal at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (cbc.ca, 12 Nov 2019)

Her older sister Tamika, US basketball player Maya Moore. (sportsnet.ca, 01 Sep 2018; theuconnblog.com, 24 Feb 2016)

"Respect all, fear none." (olympic.ca, 01 Jan 2015)

In 2020 she won the Suzy Batkovic Medal as Most Valuable Player [MVP] in Australia's Women's National Basketball League [WNBL]. (wnbl.basketball, 14 Feb 2020)

She was named MVP at the 2015 Americas Championship in Edmonton, AB, Canada. (basketball.ca, 01 Jun 2016)

She was flag bearer for Canada at the closing ceremony of the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto, ON, Canada. (thestar.com, 30 Jun 2016)

In 2014/15 she was named American Athletic Conference Freshman of the Year while attending the University of Connecticut in the United States of America. (uconnhuskies.com, 05 Apr 2016)