The route Elisa Aguilar took into university basketball
Point guard
Spanish
Athlavia had no involvement with Elisa Aguilar. 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.
One page, on one site. Everything on this page rests on it. 2 cited pages could not be loaded; nothing here rests on them. The only site is Wikipedia — an encyclopaedia, not a primary record.
One of 110 routes documented, covering 108 women. See all of them.
The route
One institution on the record: George Washington University (Washington, D.C.), NCAA Division I. 74 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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George Washington University (Washington, D.C.)
NCAA DINCAA Division I
Conference not established by the sources we read.
1997-2000
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
Madrid; Real Canoe NC from 1994 to 1997, with a senior debut at 16.
What happened, in the sources’ account
Aguilar went from Real Canoe in Madrid to George Washington in 1997 and played three seasons there. She then went straight back into Spanish basketball and built a long domestic career, with a single WNBA season in between, and played for Spain from 1996 to 2013 - 222 caps over seventeen years.
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 fetched source mentions a scholarship, an amount, a percentage or any financial term.
What happened since
Professional career in Spain with Halcon Viajes Salamanca (2000-01), Caja Rural Canarias (2001-02), Ros Casares Valencia (2002-2010) and Rivas Ecopolis (2010-2012), plus WBC Spartak Moscow Region (2012-13). Played 28 games for the Utah Starzz in the WNBA in 2002. With Spain from 1996 to 2013, including the 2004 Olympic Games, World Championship bronze in 2010, and four European Championship medals, retiring with EuroBasket gold in 2013.
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 oldest pathway on the list and the most reassuring one for parents worried that leaving Spain closes doors at home. Three years in the United States did not cut her off from the Spanish league or the national team - she came back and spent the next thirteen years in them, finishing as a European champion.
That note was written for the whole collection rather than for this page. Where it points at other examples — junior-college routes, Division II routes — it means the 108 routes documented here, not anything on this page; where it says what the page should do, it is addressing whoever writes it.
She is an outlier. Read her next to the junior-college and Division II routes rather than as the benchmark.
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 previous draft said she went to two Olympic Games (2004 and 2008) and won six international medals. The Wikipedia article I fetched records one Olympic appearance, a sixth place in 2004, plus World Championship bronze in 2010 and four European Championship medals. Publish only the corrected version, or verify 2008 independently.
- CORRECTED: the previous draft's college figures - roughly 15.7 points per game, 1,322 career points, A-10 Rookie of the Year 1998 - came from a search summary, not a page anyone loaded. The GW Hall of Fame page returns its title only and Sports-Reference returned HTTP 403. Those numbers have been removed. Do not publish them without loading a source.
- CORRECTED: the previous draft said she arrived 'as an unknown and left as one of the programme's leading scorers'. Not sourced. Removed.
What is still unknown
- The Atlantic 10 conference rests on the headline of a GW press release whose body text would not load. The headline does name Elisa Aguilar and the A-10, which is suggestive but thin. Verify before printing the conference, or write 'NCAA Division I' only.
- Her current role in Spanish basketball administration is reported inconsistently across sources and could not be verified. Leave it out.
- No conference could be established for her one stop.
- 2 cited pages could not be loaded. Nothing here rests on them.
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: 80 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, 2 cited but unreadable. 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 | Elisa Aguilar | Wikipedia | en.wikipedia.org | Loaded and re-checked |
| 2 | Elisa Aguilar Named A-10 Women's Basketball Player of the Week | George Washington University Athletics | gwsports.com | Could not be loaded — nothing on this page rests on it. |
| 3 | Elisa Aguilar (2019) - Hall of Fame | George Washington University Athletics | gwsports.com | Could not be loaded — nothing on this page rests on it. |
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The first 6 of 25, in alphabetical order.
- Alanna Smith — Australia · NCAA DI · 1 site
- Amanda Zahui B. — Sweden · NCAA DI · 1 site
- Anna Makurat — Poland · NCAA DI · 1 site
- Artemis Spanou — Greece · NCAA DI · 2 sites
- Blanca Millan — Spain · NCAA DI · 3 sites
- Bridget Carleton — Canada · NCAA DI · 2 sites
Other routes from Spain
The first 6 of 12, in alphabetical order. See all 13 documented routes from Spain.
- Ana Moleon Hidalgo — Spain · NCAA DI → NAIA · 3 sites
- Blanca Millan — Spain · NCAA DI · 3 sites
- Carlota Gomez-Alonso — Spain · Two-year college → NCAA DI → NCAA DII · 2 sites
- Elena Delicado — Spain · NCAA DI → NCAA DIII · 3 sites
- Ines Gimenez Monserrat — Spain · NCAA DII → NCAA DI · 2 sites
- Irene Sanchez — Spain · NCAA DII · 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.