The route Julia Salmio took into university basketball
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Finnish
Athlavia had no involvement with Julia Salmio. 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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One page, on one site. Everything on this page rests on it.
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.
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North Idaho College
Two-year collegeNJCAA (junior college)
Conference not established by the sources we read.
Two years before Nova Southeastern; the source dates her all-region season to 2011-12, so approximately 2010-11 and 2011-12
From a two-year college to a four-year one
2Nova Southeastern University
NCAA DIINCAA Division II
Sunshine State Conference
2012-13 (junior) and 2013-14 (senior)
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
North Idaho College
Which NJCAA division North Idaho College played in is not established by her sources, so we cannot say which of the three rulebooks applied. Divisions I and II permit athletic scholarships; Division III does not.
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
Maekelaenrinne Sport High School, Helsinki; three years with the club HNMKY; selected 2010 Player of the Year for the Finnish U19 national team.
What happened, in the sources’ account
Salmio left Finland for two years at North Idaho College, a junior college that won the NJCAA National Championship at 32-3 in her freshman season. She averaged 10.4 points and 5.9 rebounds there, was an all-region first-team pick in 2011-12 and earned NJCAA Academic All-America accolades. She then transferred to Nova Southeastern in Florida for her junior and senior years in NCAA Division II, averaging 2.6 points in 21 games as a junior and 3.0 points and 1.8 rebounds across 31 games as a senior, and matching her career high with 19 points against Albany State in the NCAA South Region Tournament.
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.
Which NJCAA division North Idaho College played in is not established by her sources, so we cannot say which of the three rulebooks applied. Divisions I and II permit athletic scholarships; Division III does not.
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 states any scholarship, aid amount, percentage or financial term for her. Her roster page says nothing about how her studies were funded.
What happened since
Her Nova Southeastern profile states she was pursuing a degree in business administration. We found no published record of a professional playing career or any post-college outcome, so we claim none.
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 classic two-step route and probably the most realistic one on this list: junior college first, then a four-year NCAA programme. She was a bench contributor at Nova Southeastern, not a star, and she still got two junior-college years plus two years of a US degree out of it. The juco years are where she built the record that earned the transfer.
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.
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: the cited URL loads and supports every claim above, including the NJCAA Academic All-America honour, the all-region first team, the 32-3 national title season and the Albany State game.
What is still unknown
- Single-source: everything here comes from her Nova Southeastern roster bio. The North Idaho College period is described second-hand and we could not load an NJCAA or North Idaho source to confirm it independently.
- Her conference at North Idaho College is not stated in the source, so we name none.
- Junior-college enrolment dates are inferred from her class years and the bio's statement that she attended North Idaho for two years. Present them as approximate.
- 1 of her 2 stops carries no conference we could establish.
- The NJCAA division is not stated for her two-year college, and the three divisions differ on athletic scholarships.
Researcher’s own rating: 88 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 | Julia Salmio - Women's Basketball - Nova Southeastern University Athletics | Nova Southeastern University Athletics | nsusharks.com | Loaded and re-checked |
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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
- Jessica Eadsforth-Yates — United Kingdom · Two-year college → NCAA DII · 2 sites
- Nerea Baena — Spain · Two-year college → NCAA DII · 1 site
- Patricija Peric — Croatia · Two-year college → NCAA DII · 2 sites
Other routes from Finland
- Juliana Haddad — Finland · Two-year college → NCAA DI → NCAA DI · 2 sites
- Lilli Hakkarainen — Finland · NCAA DI → 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.