The route Johannah Leedham took into university basketball
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British
Athlavia had no involvement with Johannah Leedham. 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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2 pages, all on en.wikipedia.org. Treat that as one source, not 2. 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: Franklin Pierce University (Rindge, New Hampshire), NCAA Division II. 23 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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Franklin Pierce University (Rindge, New Hampshire)
NCAA DIINCAA Division II
Northeast-10 Conference
2006-2010
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 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
Grew up in England. Before college she attended Cheshire Academy, a preparatory school in Cheshire, Connecticut, where she was named New England Prep School Player of the Year in 2005.
What happened, in the sources’ account
Leedham did not go straight from an English club into a big American programme. She first went through a US preparatory school in Connecticut, then spent four years at Franklin Pierce University, a small NCAA Division II school in rural New Hampshire that competes in the Northeast-10 Conference. Wikipedia states that by the end of those four years she had become the all-time leading scorer in NCAA Division II with 3,050 points.
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 read states any scholarship amount, percentage, or any financial term. We make no claim about what, if anything, her studies cost or who paid for them.
What happened since
Selected 27th overall (third round) by the Connecticut Sun in the 2010 WNBA draft. Professional clubs listed by Wikipedia: Gorzow Wielkopolski, Poland (2010); Bulleen Boomers, Australia (2011-2012); CJM Bourges Basket, France (2013-2017); ESB Villeneuve-d'Ascq, France (2017 onwards). Represented the Great Britain national team, including at the 2012 Olympic Games.
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.
A Division II school was enough to build a full international career. Families often assume that anything below Division I is a dead end; Leedham was drafted by a WNBA team, played professionally in Poland, Australia and France, and played at an Olympic Games, all from a Division II starting point. Note also that her route ran through a US prep year first, which is a real and commonly used step rather than a shortcut.
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
- VERIFIED: both cited URLs load and support the claims made. Franklin Pierce is confirmed as NCAA Division II, Northeast-10 Conference, Rindge, New Hampshire.
- CORRECTED: the previous draft stated she signed a rookie contract with the Connecticut Sun in February 2013 and was waived in May 2013. Nothing we fetched supports that, so it has been removed. Only the draft selection itself is retained.
What is still unknown
- The 3,050-point Division II scoring record rests on a single encyclopaedia article. We could not reach a Franklin Pierce athletics page or an NCAA records page to cross-check it, and the record may have been surpassed since. Attribute it to the source, or drop the superlative and simply say she was a prolific Division II scorer.
- Her club-by-club professional record comes from the same encyclopaedia article and may not be current.
Researcher’s own rating: 85 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
2 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 | Johannah Leedham | Wikipedia | en.wikipedia.org | Loaded and re-checked |
| 2 | Franklin Pierce Ravens | Wikipedia | en.wikipedia.org | Loaded and re-checked |
These 2 pages come from 1 site, 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 (4 of the 108 women documented here)
- Dayshalee Salamán — Puerto Rico · NCAA DII · 2 sites
- Irene Sanchez — Spain · NCAA DII · 1 site
- Sara Jorgensen — Sweden · NCAA DII · 1 site
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
- Jessica Eadsforth-Yates — United Kingdom · Two-year college → NCAA DII · 2 sites
- 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.