Aaliyah Edwards

[4] As a senior, Edwards was selected first-team All-Big East and second-team All-America after UConn made the final four of the 2024 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament.

[12] On October 29, 2024, it was announced that Edwards would appear and play in the inaugural 2025 season of Unrivaled, a women's 3x3 basketball league founded by Napheesa Collier and Breanna Stewart.

In a 1v1 tournament, Edwards defeated Stewart, Allisha Gray, and Arike Ogunbowale before losing in the best-of-three finals to Collier.

[13] Edwards made her international debut with the Canadian junior national team at the 2017 FIBA Under-16 Women's Americas Championship, where she won a silver medal.

[1] In 2019, at the age of 16, Edwards made her senior national team debut at an exhibition tournament in Belgium and later that summer, she helped Canada secure a silver medal at the 2019 FIBA Women's AmeriCup.

[16][17] In the Olympic tournament, Edwards played only 31 seconds across two group stage games, as Canada failed to advance to the quarterfinals.

She wears purple and yellow braids to pay homage to the Los Angeles Lakers and Kobe Bryant, and her late brother Jermaine.

Edwards with the UConn Huskies in 2023