It's official now, Chatham's Bridget Carleton will be going to the Olympics in Paris this summer.
She was named to the final roster for Canada's women's basketball team on Tuesday by Canada Basketball and the Canadian Olympic Committee.
The athlete's named to the 2024 roster include:
Natalie Achonwa (Guelph, Ont.)
Kayla Alexander (Milton, Ont.)
Laeticia Amihere (Mississauga, Ont.)
Bridget Carleton (Chatham, Ont.)
Shay Colley (Brampton, Ont.)
Aaliyah Edwards (Kingston, Ont.)
Yvonne Ejim (Calgary, Alta.)
Nirra Fields (Montreal, Que.)
Sami Hill (Toronto, Ont.)
Kia Nurse (Hamilton, Ont.)
Cassandre Prosper (Montreal, Que.)
Syla Swords (Sudbury, Ont.)
This is the second time Carleton will represent Canada at the Olympics. She, Laeticia Amihere, Aaliyah Edwards, and Kia Nurse competed in Tokyo 2020. Nurse also played for Canada eight years ago in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 2016.
"We're excited about the team we’ve built to proudly represent Canada this summer in Paris," said Víctor Lapeña, the Head Coach of Canada's Senior Women's National team. "After finishing fourth in the last World Cup, we're looking to take that next step as a program."
This is the fourth straight Olympic games that the senior women's national team has successfully qualified for and will be the eighth appearance since the women's tournament debuted at the Olympics in 1976. Canada's best Olympic result in women's basketball was a fourth-place finish in 1984.
It will be the first time in 24 years that Canada's women's and men's basketball teams will compete together at an Olympic Games.
