Jada Shanice Stinson (born September 28, 1999) is a Puerto Rican basketball player.

Jada Stinson
No. 0 – Illinois State Redbirds
PositionGuard
LeagueMVC
Personal information
Born (1999-09-28) September 28, 1999 (age 24)
Fayetteville, North Carolina, U.S.
NationalityPuerto Rican
Listed height5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
Career information
High schoolElizabethtown
(Elizabethtown, Kentucky)
College
Medals
Women's basketball
Representing  Puerto Rico
FIBA Women's AmeriCup
Silver medal – second place 2021 San Juan
Centrobasket
Gold medal – first place 2021 San Salvador

Stinson plays for the Puerto Rican national team. She participated at the 2021 Centrobasket Women's Championship.[1] Stinson played for the Puerto Rican team at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics for the team's debut Olympics appearance.[2][3]

Life edit

Stinson is a native of Fayetteville, North Carolina.[4] She attended Elizabethtown High School in Elizabethtown, Kentucky.[2]

She plays college basketball for the Illinois State Redbirds.[5] She previously played for the Memphis Tigers and Arkansas State Red Wolves.

References edit

  1. ^ "Jada Shanice STINSON at the Centrobasket Women's Championship 2021". FIBA.basketball.
  2. ^ a b Benson, Jada (11 July 2021). "EHS grad ready for Olympic experience". The News-Enterprise. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
  3. ^ "Basketball - STINSON Jada Shanice". Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 2021-08-06. Retrieved 2021-08-06.
  4. ^ "Jada Stinson to Represent Puerto Rico in Belgium". Illinois State University Athletics.
  5. ^ "Women's Basketball Signs Jada Stinson". Illinois State University Athletics.

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