The route Jessica Eadsforth-Yates took into university basketball
Not stated in the sources we fetched
British (England)
Athlavia had no involvement with Jessica Eadsforth-Yates. 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.
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4 pages across 2 sites.
One of 110 routes documented, covering 108 women. See all of them.
The route
Two stops: Two-year college, then NCAA Division II — from a two-year college to a four-year one. 6 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
Cochise College (Arizona), then Georgia Highlands College (Georgia)
Two-year collegeJunior college (listed by Hoopsfix under the JUCO heading)
Conference not established by the sources we read.
Cochise from 2017-18 as a freshman; Georgia Highlands before 2019-20
Our file records 2 colleges in this one entry, with a single division, a single conference field and a single span of years covering both. It is drawn above as one stop because nothing in the record separates them.
From a two-year college to a four-year one
2Davis & Elkins College (Elkins, West Virginia)
NCAA DIINCAA Division II
Mountain East Conference
from 2019-20, listed that season as a junior arriving from Georgia Highlands
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
Cochise College (Arizona), then Georgia Highlands College (Georgia)
Her sources do not name the association Cochise College (Arizona) and Georgia Highlands College (Georgia) played in, so we cannot say which scholarship rules applied to them.
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
Played for Leicester Riders as a teenager and at Charnwood in the Women's Elite Academy Basketball League (WEABL), losing the 2017 WEABL championship game to CoLA; represented Great Britain at the Under-18 European Championships in 2016.
What happened, in the sources’ account
Eadsforth-Yates came through a British academy programme rather than an American high school, started her US career at junior-college level across two schools, won silverware there, and then transferred up to a Division II college in West Virginia. She returned to England and signed for a professional WBBL club.
What is known about money
Athletic scholarships are permitted at NCAA Division II, where she played. That is a fact about the rulebook, not about her.
Her sources do not name the association Cochise College (Arizona) and Georgia Highlands College (Georgia) played in, so we cannot say which scholarship rules applied to them.
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 mentions a scholarship, an award, or any financial terms at either junior college or at Davis & Elkins.
What happened since
Signed for Newcastle Eagles in the Women's British Basketball League (WBBL) for the 2021-22 season, alongside Anna Popovic.
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 close to the median realistic pathway: academy basketball at home, junior college as the entry point, Division II as the destination, then a return to the domestic professional league. Nobody in this story was a top-100 recruit.
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 'graduating 2020'. The 2019-20 Hoopsfix list records her as a JUNIOR at Davis & Elkins that season, so a 2020 graduation is contradicted. Do not state a graduation year at all.
- CORRECTED. The previous draft said the order of Cochise and Georgia Highlands could not be established. It now can: the 2017-18 list has her as a freshman at Cochise, and the 2019-20 list records her as arriving at Davis & Elkins from Georgia Highlands. Cochise first, then Georgia Highlands.
- REMOVED. The previous draft said she 'has also played in Greece according to database profiles we could not open'. An unopened database is not a source. Dropped.
- REMOVED. The previous draft gave her position as guard on the strength of a profile that returned 403. Do not state a position.
What is still unknown
- Her Davis & Elkins roster page is JavaScript-rendered and could not be fetched.
- 1 of her 2 stops carries no conference we could establish.
- Her playing position is not stated in the sources we read.
- The association her two-year college played in is not named in any source we read.
- Our file holds Cochise College (Arizona) and Georgia Highlands College (Georgia) as a single entry, so it cannot tell you what she did at each of them separately, and the drawing above shows one stop where the sources describe 2.
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: 84 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
4 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 | Anna Popovic, Jessica Eadsforth-Yates to join Newcastle Eagles | Hoopsfix | www.hoopsfix.com | Loaded and re-checked |
| 2 | Female British Basketball Players in US Colleges 2017-18 (Cochise College, JUCO, freshman) | Hoopsfix | www.hoopsfix.com | Loaded and re-checked |
| 3 | Female British Basketball Players in US Colleges 2019-20 (Davis and Elkins College, NCAA Division 2, junior, from Georgia Highlands) | Hoopsfix | www.hoopsfix.com | Loaded and re-checked |
| 4 | Davis & Elkins College (NCAA Division II, Mountain East Conference, Elkins, West Virginia) | Wikipedia | en.wikipedia.org | Loaded and re-checked |
These 4 pages come from 2 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 (6 of the 108 women documented here)
- Barbora Fronkova — Czechia · Two-year college → NCAA DII · 2 sites
- Cheyann Ashworth — Australia · Two-year college → NCAA DII · 2 sites
- Julia Salmio — Finland · Two-year college → NCAA DII · 1 site
- Nerea Baena — Spain · Two-year college → NCAA DII · 1 site
- Patricija Peric — Croatia · Two-year college → NCAA DII · 2 sites
Other routes from United Kingdom
- Anna Popovic — United Kingdom · NCAA DI → NCAA DII · 1 site
- Cheridene Green — United Kingdom · Two-year college → NCAA DI · 1 site
- Holly Winterburn — United Kingdom · NCAA DI · 2 sites
- Johannah Leedham — United Kingdom · NCAA DII · 1 site
- Temi Fagbenle — United Kingdom · NCAA DI → 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.