Former Golden Eagle Katherine Plouffe to compete at 2024 Summer Olympics

Former Golden Eagle Katherine Plouffe to compete at 2024 Summer Olympics

Former women's basketball player Katherine Plouffe will compete with Team Canada as part of the country's 3×3 basketball team at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.

Plouffe played for the Golden Eagles from 2010 to 2014, securing All-Big East honors as a senior. She was additionally an All-Big East second team member in 2012-13 and an All-Big East freshman team member in 2010-11. She ranks 13th in all-time program history with 1,551 career points and fifth in rebounds with 973.

Plouffe was named the Big East Scholar Athlete of the Year in 2014 and set the program's record for rebounds in a game when she grabbed 26 boards in a WNIT matchup with Indiana State on May 20, 2014.

An Edmonton, Alberta, native, she'll play alongside her twin sister Michelle.

The Canadian team will play at the following times (all times central):

• Tuesday, July 30, vs. Australia at 11 a.m.
• Wednesday, July 31, vs. China at 11 a.m.
• Thursday, Aug. 1, vs. Germany at 2:30 a.m.
• Thursday Aug. 1, vs. France at 3 p.m.
• Friday, Aug. 2, vs. United States at 11 a.m.
• Friday, Aug. 2, vs. Spain at 2 p.m.
• Saturday, Aug. 3, vs. Azerbaijan at 10:30 a.m.

3×3 squads will play each of the other seven countries once in pool play. The top six teams will advance to the knockout rounds.

The 2020 Summer Olympics in Toyko, Japan, marked the first inclusion of 3×3 basketball at the Games. As opposed to traditional basketball, 3×3 is played on a half-court featuring two teams of three players.

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