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Savvannah Swords' date of birth is January 18, 2008, she is U16 age, a little embarrassing that the Basketball Canada site displays the wrong date of birth. They made the mistake of repeating the same date as Marie Grace Talle. The best way to find out a player's date of birth is to type her name into a search engine and complete it with
FIBA Profile. If she took part in a FIBA event, you're sure to get the right date. As for Savvy Swords, she should be with the U17 team at this summer's world championship.
There are two notable absentees for Canada,
Syla Swords and
Avery Howell, who is currently training with the senior team. You're right about Toby Fournier, she was born in 2005, as was Delaney Gibb (#77 ESPN class 2024). On the American side, the best players in the ESPN 2024 class who were born in 2005 and are not eligible are: Jaloni Cambridge, Allie Ziebell, Morgan Cheli, Maskenly Randolph and Olivia Olson. I couldn't find the dates of birth of Mikayla Blakes and Justice Carlton.
We're led to believe that if an athlete is in the same class as a player present at the championship, so are the others in the same class. The classes we have in the ESPN rankings are those of their entry into university, on the FIBA side its age on January 1st, in the case of this year's U18 the oldest players who can play at the Americas Championship were born on January 1st 2006. The best example of how this can be misleading is Sidney Douglas, who is in the class of 2028, yet she is the same age less than ten days behind Olivia Vukosa and Jerzy Robinson, yet when Sidney Douglas starts her freshmen season, the other two will be entering their third year.
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she might have a double double before the half at the rate she’s going.