The route Alina Jahnke took into university basketball
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Athlavia had no involvement with Alina Jahnke. She has not used this product, is not connected to it and has not endorsed it. Everything on this page about her is drawn from the published sources listed at the foot, and cited so you can read the originals. The sentences about what an association’s rules permit are ours; they are statements about a rulebook, they are marked as such where they appear, and they are not about her.
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One page, on one site. Everything on this page rests on it.
One of 110 routes documented, covering 108 women. See all of them.
The route
One institution on the record: Trinity International University (Deerfield, Illinois), NAIA. 17 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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Trinity International University (Deerfield, Illinois)
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Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference (CCAC); the programme also competed in the NCCAA
2018-19 to 2021-22 (four seasons, freshman through senior)
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.
NAIA
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
Kooperative Gesamtschule Rastede, a secondary school in Lower Saxony; hometown given as Borkum, Germany. Her university biography lists the Gesamtschule as her high school, with no intervening club or American prep school named, so on the published record she went to the USA from the German school system.
What happened, in the sources’ account
Jahnke left a German comprehensive school for a small NAIA university outside Chicago and played four full seasons there. She finished her career with 1,266 points, 712 rebounds, 164 assists, 76 steals and 274 blocked shots, the last of these a programme record. She was named CCAC Honorable Mention in 2021-22, an NAIA Scholar-Athlete twice (2019-20 and 2020-21) and a three-time CCAC All-Academic selection.
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.
No published source we read states what financial aid, if any, she received. Her university biography lists only athletic and academic honours. We make no claim about her funding.
What happened since
Not published in the source we read. Her Trinity International biography ends with the 2021-22 season and we found no verified record of a professional or national-team career.
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.
This is the pathway most families will never hear about and the one most likely to be available to them. A player nobody outside her region had heard of went to a small NAIA school, played four full seasons, set a programme record and collected academic honours. No professional career, no national team, no famous university - just four years of real basketball and a degree. NAIA schools are not a consolation prize; they are a route.
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 the second pass removed or corrected
- VERIFIED: page loads and supports every fact above, including the career totals and the block record.
- CORRECTED: the previous draft gave senior-season averages of 12.7 points, 7.2 rebounds and 2.3 blocks and said she started every game as a senior. Those specifics were not visible in the page as we loaded it, so they have been removed. Do not print them.
What is still unknown
- All career detail comes from a single official source, her own university biography. We found no independent journalism about her.
- What she did after 2022 is unknown to us. Do not imply she plays professionally.
One further note in our file is not published here. A note is withheld when it states a date of birth or an age, names a relative, or is an internal editorial instruction about which records to keep.
Researcher’s own rating: 90 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 | Alina Jahnke - Women's Basketball roster biography | Trinity International University Athletics (official) | tiutrojans.com | Loaded and re-checked |
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Routes through the same sequence of levels (8 of the 108 women documented here)
The first 6 of 7, in alphabetical order.
- Carly Boag — Australia · NAIA · 2 sites
- Dominique Stephens — New Zealand · NAIA · 2 sites
- Frida Schmidt — Germany · NAIA · 1 site
- Josephine Owino — Kenya · NAIA · 1 site
- Marieme Lo — Senegal · NAIA · 2 sites
- Melissa (Mellissa) Akullu — Uganda · NAIA · 3 sites
Other routes from Germany
- Frida Schmidt — Germany · NAIA · 1 site
- Jessika Schiffer — Germany · NCAA DI → NCAA DI · 3 sites
- Paulina Geyrhalter — Germany · NCAA DIII · 1 site
- Toni (Antonia) Niebler — Germany · NCAA DI → NCAA DII · 1 site
Athlavia had no involvement with Alina Jahnke. We did not advise, represent or place her, and we do not know her.
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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.