The route Chatilla van Grinsven took into university basketball
Power forward
Dutch
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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
Colorado State University (Rams)
NCAA DINCAA Division I
Mountain West Conference
2008-2011 (left in January 2011)
Same level
2Saint Joseph's University, Philadelphia (Hawks)
NCAA DINCAA Division I
Atlantic 10
2011-2013 (sat out 2011-12 under the NCAA transfer rules of the time)
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 Eindhoven, Netherlands. Before moving to the United States she played in the Netherlands on a team that included professional players - the reason the NCAA later made her sit out four games as a freshman.
What happened, in the sources’ account
She arrived at Colorado State in 2008 and was made to sit out four games because she had played on a Dutch team with professionals. After two and a half seasons she left in January 2011, transferred to Saint Joseph's, and then sat out a full season under the NCAA transfer rules then in force. In her one eligible season there, 2012-13, she played 32 games and averaged 14.9 points and 10.4 rebounds, and was named First Team All-Atlantic 10 and Big 5 Player of the Year.
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.
A source does state a financial term for her. It states no sum of money: no amount, no percentage and no duration. The quotation is below.
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.
A source states a financial term. It states no sum of 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 only scholarship-adjacent statement in any source is that in January 2011 she asked for and received a release from her scholarship at Colorado State. No amount, percentage or financial term is published anywhere I read, and none should be inferred. Do not upgrade this into a claim about a full scholarship or its value.
What happened since
Undrafted in the 2013 WNBA draft; signed with the Connecticut Sun. Played professionally in France (Bourges 2013-14, Arras Pays d'Artois 2015-16), Turkey (Ormanspor 2014-15, Osmaniye 2016-17, Galatasaray 2017), Spain (Uni Ferrol 2018-19) and the Czech Republic (KP Brno 2019-20).
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.
Her US career contained two lost stretches - four games of ineligibility for having played alongside professionals at home, and a full transfer sit-out season - and the payoff came only in her final year. It shows that eligibility rules around European club basketball are a concrete obstacle a family must plan for, and that a first university is not always the right 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: her 2012-13 averages are 14.9 points and 10.4 rebounds in 32 games, not 15.0 and 10.5.
- REMOVED as unverified: that she led Saint Joseph's to the Atlantic 10 title and an NCAA tournament place; that she was 'nominated for the NCAA Woman of the Year award' (the source describes a conference-level Woman of the Year award, which is not the same thing); that Arras won the Coupe de France in 2014 (the source dates her Arras spell to 2015-16); and that she was a Dutch senior international from 2010 or in national programmes from 2006. None of these appear in the source I read.
What is still unknown
- SINGLE SOURCE (Wikipedia), and it is the weakest sourcing in this set. Corroborate the college years and the 2012-13 season against Saint Joseph's and Colorado State athletics records before publishing. If you cannot, consider dropping her.
- NCAA transfer rules have changed since 2011-12. Do not present her sit-out year as the rule today.
- The 'played with professionals' point is about her eligibility record, not a judgement about her. Keep it factual.
Our own summary above carried her date of birth. It has been taken out: it is on no route, it explains nothing about one, and it is the most identifying thing in our file about a living woman who did not ask to be in it. Nothing else in those paragraphs has been changed.
Researcher’s own rating: 68 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 | Chatilla van Grinsven | Wikipedia | en.wikipedia.org | Loaded and re-checked |
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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.
- Ana Barreto — Portugal · NCAA DI → NCAA DI · 1 site
- Charlisse Leger-Walker — New Zealand · NCAA DI → NCAA DI · 2 sites
- 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 Netherlands
- Emese Hof — Netherlands · NCAA DI · 3 sites
- Frode Flos van der Schans — Netherlands · NCAA DI → NCAA DI · 3 sites
- Laura Cornelius — Netherlands · 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.