The route Catarina Ferreira took into university basketball
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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 I — same level. 7 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
Eastern Arizona College
Two-year collegeNJCAA Division I (junior college)
Conference not established by the sources we read.
two seasons (she is described as finishing her sophomore JUCO season there); calendar years not stated
From a two-year college to a four-year one
2Baylor University
NCAA DINCAA Division I
Big 12 Conference
two seasons (the source refers to 'two starts in as many seasons with Baylor'); calendar years not stated
Same level
3Oregon State University
NCAA DINCAA Division I
West Coast Conference
arrived as a graduate student; 2024–25, then returned for 2025–26 after an NCAA eligibility waiver, her sixth year of college basketball
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
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
São Paulo, Brazil.
What happened, in the sources’ account
Ferreira took the junior-college road: two seasons at Eastern Arizona College, then a transfer to Baylor in the Big 12, then Oregon State as a graduate student. She was named West Coast Conference Tournament MVP in 2025, and won a silver medal with Brazil's senior national team at the 2025 FIBA Women's AmeriCup, appearing in all seven games off the bench. She announced her return to Oregon State for 2025–26, her sixth year in US college basketball.
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.
The source we loaded states nothing about a scholarship, an amount, or any financial term.
What happened since
Brazil senior national team — silver medal at the 2025 FIBA Women's AmeriCup in Santiago, playing all seven games off the bench. Returned to Oregon State for 2025–26. Nothing after that season is verified by us.
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.
Two things families should notice. First, she reached a major conference through a junior college, not around it. Second, her path was long and non-linear — six years, three institutions, a spell of limited minutes at Baylor with only two starts in two seasons — and it still ended in a conference tournament MVP award and a senior national-team medal. Staying long enough to graduate and use graduate eligibility is part of the story, not a detour from it.
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, IMPORTANT: the prior draft said ONE season at Baylor with 38 games and a 2024 Sweet 16 run. The Portland Tribune article says 'two starts in as many seasons with Baylor' — two seasons. The 38-game figure and the Sweet 16 detail were not in any source we loaded and have been removed.
- CORRECTED: the prior draft's claim that she arrived knowing only a handful of words of English came from an Oregon Live profile that our tools cannot load. It is removed. Do not publish the language-barrier framing for her; it is unverified.
- REMOVED CITATIONS: the Oregon Live URL could not be loaded, and the Sports Reference page returns HTTP 403. Neither is cited here. This example now rests on a single fetched source.
- CORRECTED: the prior draft's '18 points and 9.3 rebounds across that tournament' for the WCC tournament is unverified. Removed.
What is still unknown
- Calendar years for Eastern Arizona and Baylor are NOT stated in the source. Only the season counts and the Oregon State years are documented. Do not print a year range for the first two schools.
- There is a Portuguese tennis player of the same name on Wikipedia. Do not link to that page.
- Her 2025–26 season and anything after it are unverified by us. Check her current status before publication.
- 1 of her 3 stops carries no conference we could establish.
- 2 of her stops carry no calendar year at all in the years the sources give.
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: 74 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 | Oregon State guard's Team Brazil path paved by love, confidence | Portland Tribune | portlandtribune.com | Loaded and re-checked |
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- Fatou Pouye — Senegal · Two-year college → NCAA DI → NCAA DI · 2 sites
- Johanna Teder — Estonia · Two-year college → NCAA DI → NCAA DI · 2 sites
- Juliana Haddad — Finland · Two-year college → NCAA DI → NCAA DI · 2 sites
- Maite Lara Garcia — Spain · Two-year college → NCAA DI → NCAA DI · 2 sites
- Raiane Dias Dos Santos — Brazil · Two-year college → NCAA DI → NCAA DI · 1 site
Other routes from Brazil
- Raiane Dias Dos Santos — Brazil · Two-year college → NCAA DI → NCAA DI · 1 site
- Stephany Gonçalves — Brazil · Two-year college → NCAA DI · 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.