The route Alanna Smith took into university basketball
Centre / power forward (6ft 4in)
Australian
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One page, on one site. Everything on this page rests on it. The only site is Wikipedia — an encyclopaedia, not a primary record.
One of 110 routes documented, covering 108 women. See all of them.
The route
One institution on the record: Stanford University, NCAA Division I. 74 of the 110 routes documented here include a stop on that row. The rows above and below are the frame of reference, not places she was.
Left to right is the order the sources place her stops in. It is not a time axis: 54 of the 181 stops recorded across this site carry a bare pair of dates and the rest are prose, so the years are printed as written, in the list below.
The rows are the NCAA’s own three divisions, plus two dashed rows for everything outside them. NAIA and U SPORTS are separate associations rather than a lower NCAA tier, and nothing in these records ranks them against it; the two-year colleges sit at the foot because a junior college is an institution players transfer on from, which the records do say. The shaded bar behind each row is how many of the 110 routes documented here include a stop at that level.
The institution on the record
Printed as written. The drawing above compresses these; this list does not, because every caveat in the research lives inside these sentences.
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Stanford University
NCAA DINCAA Division I
Pac-12 Conference
2015–2019
What these levels are, and what money can exist at them
These are facts about rulebooks. They apply to everyone at that level, and none of them is a statement about her.
NCAA Division I
This association permits athletic scholarships. Whether any particular player received one, and how much of one, is not published.
Where she was before she left
Born in Hobart, Tasmania, 10 September 1996. Attended Wesley College in Melbourne, Victoria.
What happened, in the sources’ account
Smith went from a Melbourne secondary school to four seasons at Stanford, one of the strongest combinations of academic and basketball reputation in US college sport. She completed all four years before turning professional, and was taken eighth overall in the 2019 WNBA draft.
What is known about money
Athletic scholarships are permitted at every level on this route. That is a fact about the rulebook, not about her.
No source we fetched states what she received, if anything.
6 of the 110 routes documented here have a source stating any financial term at all. The other 104 do not, and that is normal rather than a gap in the research: a university announces a signing as a roster addition, and what a player was offered stays between her and the programme. Read silence as silence.
No source states anything about money.
Copied without editing. Like the checking notes further down, some of these sentences are instructions to the person writing this page rather than statements about her.
Nothing in the source we fetched states a scholarship, its value or its terms. Do not describe her Stanford place in financial language.
What happened since
Drafted 8th overall by Phoenix Mercury in 2019. WNBA career with Phoenix (2019–2021), Indiana Fever (2022), Chicago Sky (2023), Minnesota Lynx (2024–2025) and Dallas Wings (from 2026). Co-winner, with A'ja Wilson, of the 2025 WNBA Defensive Player of the Year award, and 2025 All-Defensive First Team. Olympic bronze medallist with Australia at Paris 2024 and named to the FIBA All-Star Five.
No retrieval date is stored against these sources, so treat anything time-sensitive — a current club, a current roster — as needing a fresh check.
Athlavia’s note on this route
Everything above is drawn from the sources. This is our editorial judgement about why the route is worth showing, and it is the only opinion on this page.
Included for recognition, and as the honest top end of the range. Almost no one takes this route. Read it alongside the junior-college and Division II examples on this page rather than as the benchmark: for every Alanna Smith there are many more Cheyann Ashworths and Nyidier Riaks, and those are the realistic comparisons.
That note was written for the whole collection rather than for this page. Where it points at other examples — junior-college routes, Division II routes — it means the 108 routes documented here, not anything on this page; where it says what the page should do, it is addressing whoever writes it.
She is an outlier. Read her next to the junior-college and Division II routes rather than as the benchmark.
This set has not been through the balancing pass, so it may over-represent Division I.
What we could not confirm
These are the checking pass’s own notes, copied without editing. They address the person writing this page, which is why some are phrased as instructions. They are published because a list of what we removed is worth more than an assurance that we checked.
What is still unknown
- Single fetched source (Wikipedia). Her Stanford year-by-year statistics were not verified and should not be published.
- The Pac-12 label for Stanford during 2015–2019 is correct for that period but predates conference realignment; do not carry it forward to the present.
- Recent professional details (2026 Dallas Wings) come from the same single source; treat as provisional.
Researcher’s own rating: 85 out of 100. This is the checking agent’s self-assessment, not a measurement. Across the 110 records it runs from 62 to 93, so the source count above it tells you more.
Sources
1 page fetched and re-checked. Found by one researcher and re-checked by a second whose instruction was to fetch every cited URL and delete whatever the page did not support.
| # | Title | Publisher | Site | Loaded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alanna Smith | Wikipedia | en.wikipedia.org | Loaded and re-checked |
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Routes through the same sequence of levels (26 of the 108 women documented here)
The first 6 of 25, in alphabetical order.
- Amanda Zahui B. — Sweden · NCAA DI · 1 site
- Anna Makurat — Poland · NCAA DI · 1 site
- Artemis Spanou — Greece · NCAA DI · 2 sites
- Blanca Millan — Spain · NCAA DI · 3 sites
- Bridget Carleton — Canada · NCAA DI · 2 sites
- Edel Thornton — Ireland · NCAA DI · 4 sites
Other routes from Australia
- Amelia Hassett — Australia · Two-year college → NCAA DI · 2 sites
- Carly Boag — Australia · NAIA · 2 sites
- Cheyann Ashworth — Australia · Two-year college → NCAA DII · 2 sites
- Ieva Nagy — Australia · NCAA DI → NCAA DII · 1 site
- Nyidier Riak — Australia · Two-year college · 1 site
- Tegan Cunningham — Australia · Two-year college → NCAA DI · 1 site
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This set has not been through the balancing pass, so it may over-represent Division I.
110 routes, 44 countries, 32 through a junior or community college, 36 never played NCAA Division I — so you can see whether this record is typical of the set or unusual within it.