The route Bisera Peshkova took into university basketball
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Athlavia had no involvement with Bisera Peshkova. 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.
5 pages across 3 sites.
One of 110 routes documented, covering 108 women. See all of them.
The route
Three stops: Two-year college, then NCAA Division I — from a two-year college to a four-year one, then NCAA Division II — down a division, in the NCAA's own numbering. 2 of the 108 women documented here followed the same sequence of levels.
This route includes a move to a higher-numbered NCAA division. Every move is drawn in the same weight and the same colour, whichever way it went, because the graphic does not rank the levels it draws. 9 of the 110 routes documented here include a move to a higher-numbered division. This drawing carries no reason for any move; where her sources give one, it is in the account below.
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
Central Arizona College (Coolidge, Arizona)
Two-year collegeNJCAA junior college (listed among NJCAA Division I schools)
Conference not established by the sources we read.
2011-12 (one year; her CSUSB bio says the team went 31-3 and reached the National Tournament Final Four)
From a two-year college to a four-year one
2Northern Arizona University
NCAA DINCAA Division I
Big Sky Conference
2013-14 (11 games, 0.6 points per game)
Down a division, in the NCAA's own numbering
3California State University, San Bernardino
NCAA DIINCAA Division II
CCAA (California Collegiate Athletic Association)
2014-15 and 2015-16
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.
Two-year college
Central Arizona College (Coolidge, Arizona)
This NJCAA division permits athletic scholarships.
NCAA Division I
This association permits athletic scholarships. Whether any particular player received one, and how much of one, is not published.
NCAA Division II
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
Hometown listed as Varna, Bulgaria. Played at Barking Abbey HS in England, whose team won the English championship in 2011, and for the Haringey Angels club. Represented Bulgaria's U18 national team at the 2010 European Championship in Romania.
What happened, in the sources’ account
Peshkova left Varna for a basketball school in England, then a junior college in Arizona where she took an Associate of Arts with honours, then Division I at Northern Arizona - where she played 11 games and averaged 0.6 points - and finally moved down to Division II at Cal State San Bernardino, where she played two seasons largely off the bench and earned CCAA All-Academic and NCAA Division II Athletics Directors Academic Achievement recognition. Her listed major was business.
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, aid amount or financial term. The academic awards named on her page are honours, not financial aid. Do not conflate them.
What happened since
Not published in the sources we fetched. Her CSUSB bio ends with the 2015-16 season.
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 one contains the step recruitment marketing never shows: she moved down a division, from Division I to Division II, and that is where she got a stable two-year role and academic honours. Moving down is a normal outcome, not a failure. Note also that the degree came first - she had an honours associate degree in hand before she ever reached Division I.
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: the order is now confirmed. Central Arizona College came first (2011-12), then Northern Arizona (2013-14), then CSUSB. Her presence on the 2013-14 NAU roster is confirmed on a first-party page we loaded, listing Central Arizona as her previous school.
What is still unknown
- There is an unexplained gap between 2011-12 and 2013-14 in the published record. Do not fill it in.
- Barking Abbey is a school in England, not a professional club. Describe it as a school.
- 1 of her 3 stops carries no conference we could establish.
Researcher’s own rating: 92 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
5 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 | Bisera Peshkova - Women's Basketball roster bio | Cal State San Bernardino Athletics | csusbathletics.com | Loaded and re-checked |
| 2 | 2013-14 Women's Basketball Roster (Peshkova, #32, G, 5-11, So., Varna, Bulgaria / Central Arizona Community College) | Northern Arizona University Athletics | nauathletics.com | Loaded and re-checked |
| 3 | Northern Arizona Lumberjacks (NCAA Division I, Big Sky Conference) | Wikipedia | en.wikipedia.org | Loaded and re-checked |
| 4 | Cal State San Bernardino Coyotes (NCAA Division II, CCAA) | Wikipedia | en.wikipedia.org | Loaded and re-checked |
| 5 | List of NJCAA Division I schools (Central Arizona College, Coolidge) | Wikipedia | en.wikipedia.org | Loaded and re-checked |
These 5 pages come from 3 sites, 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 (2 of the 108 women documented here)
- Carlota Gomez-Alonso — Spain · Two-year college → NCAA DI → NCAA DII · 2 sites
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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.