The route Ana Barreto took into university basketball
Guard (6'1")
Portuguese
Athlavia had no involvement with Ana Barreto. 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.
No photograph. Roster images belong to the universities and photographers who made them.
2 pages, all on queensathletics.com. Treat that as one source, not 2.
One of 110 routes documented, covering 108 women. See all of them.
The route
Two stops, both NCAA Division I. The line is flat because the level did not change, not because nothing happened. 14 of the 108 women documented here followed the same sequence of levels.
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 stops, as the sources record them
Printed as written. The drawing above compresses these; this list does not, because every caveat in the research lives inside these sentences.
- 1
Ball State University
NCAA DINCAA Division I
Conference not established by the sources we read.
2022-23 and 2023-24
Same level
2Queens University of Charlotte
NCAA DINCAA Division I
ASUN Conference (Atlantic Sun) - confirmed from the Queens athletics site
2024-25 and 2025-26
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
Lisbon, Portugal. Her Portuguese club is not stated on the roster page we read.
What happened, in the sources’ account
Barreto's second year at Ball State was sparse: 34 games, 3.6 points, 1.0 rebound and 0.4 assists a game, with a career-high 14 points against Miami (Ohio). She transferred to Queens University of Charlotte and immediately became a regular - 29 games, 8.3 points and 2.9 rebounds a game, including a career-high 21 points with 12 rebounds and 6 assists against Gardner-Webb in December 2024. She returned to Queens as a senior for 2025-26.
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 source we fetched states any scholarship, amount, percentage or financial term for Barreto. The Queens roster page records playing history and statistics only.
What happened since
Nothing published. The only source we could fetch is her 2025-26 Queens roster page; it records no professional signing.
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.
Playing a bit part for two years at a mid-major is a common and rarely-discussed outcome, and transferring is now a normal correction rather than a failure. Moving to a smaller programme turned a reserve into a regular starter with a 21-point, 12-rebound game to her name. Families should plan for the possibility that the first school is not the last one.
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
- CORRECTED from the previous draft: the freshman-year figures ('17 games and 1.6 points per game') are not supported by anything we fetched and have been removed. Her Ball State record here is the 2023-24 season only, as summarised on her Queens bio.
- CORRECTED: '27 starts' at Queens in 2024-25 and 'five three-pointers against USC Upstate' are not supported by what we read and have been removed.
- CORRECTED: the Mid-American Conference was asserted for Ball State in the previous draft. No source we fetched names it. Leave it blank or verify with a Ball State page.
What is still unknown
- Queens' ASUN and NCAA membership is confirmed from footer branding on the Queens athletics site; the division number itself is not printed on the page, though ASUN is a Division I conference. Queens moved up from NCAA Division II relatively recently - re-check before printing a division for her first Queens season.
- Her Portuguese club and her major are not published - do not fill these in.
- 1 of her 2 stops carries no conference we could establish.
2 further notes in our file are 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: 72 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
2 pages 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 | Ana Barreto - 2025-2026 Women's Basketball roster bio | Queens University of Charlotte Athletics | queensathletics.com | Loaded and re-checked |
| 2 | Queens University of Charlotte women's basketball (team page, used only to confirm ASUN and NCAA affiliation) | Queens University of Charlotte Athletics | queensathletics.com | Loaded and re-checked |
These 2 pages come from 1 site, so some of them share one. The strip at the top of this page counts sites, not links.
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Routes through the same sequence of levels (14 of the 108 women documented here)
The first 6 of 13, in alphabetical order.
- Charlisse Leger-Walker — New Zealand · NCAA DI → NCAA DI · 2 sites
- Chatilla van Grinsven — Netherlands · NCAA DI → NCAA DI · 1 site
- Dorka Juhasz — Hungary · NCAA DI → NCAA DI · 1 site
- Esmery Martínez — Dominican Republic · NCAA DI → NCAA DI · 1 site
- Frode Flos van der Schans — Netherlands · NCAA DI → NCAA DI · 3 sites
- Jessika Schiffer — Germany · NCAA DI → NCAA DI · 3 sites
Other routes from Portugal
- Ticha Penicheiro — Portugal · 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.