The route Juliana Haddad took into university basketball
Forward, 5-10
Athlavia had no involvement with Juliana Haddad. 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 across 2 sites.
One of 110 routes documented, covering 108 women. See all of them.
The route
Three stops: Two-year college, then NCAA Division I — from a two-year college to a four-year one, then NCAA Division I — same level. 7 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
Eastern Florida State College
Two-year collegeNJCAA junior college (Florida)
Conference not established by the sources we read.
2024-25 (16 games)
From a two-year college to a four-year one
2Northern Illinois University
NCAA DINCAA Division I
Mid-American Conference
2025-26 (12 games)
Same level
3University of North Dakota
NCAA DINCAA Division I
Not printed in the article text fetched
announced June 2026 for 2026-27
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
Eastern Florida State College
Which NJCAA division Eastern Florida State 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 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
Pohjois-Haaga Yhteiskoulu, a school in the Helsinki area; home town Espoo, Finland. She played for Finland at the 2019 FIBA U16 and 2022 FIBA U18 Women's European Championships.
What happened, in the sources’ account
Haddad left Finland for one season of junior college at Eastern Florida State, appearing in 16 games. She then moved up to Northern Illinois in the Mid-American Conference, where she played 12 games as a sophomore, made her debut against SIUE and scored her first two career points at Iowa State. In June 2026 North Dakota announced she would join them for 2026-27.
What is known about money
Athletic scholarships are permitted at NCAA Division I, where she played. That is a fact about the rulebook, not about her.
Which NJCAA division Eastern Florida State 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, amount, percentage or financial term. The North Dakota release explicitly contains no information about scholarship or financial terms; NIU's roster page is a bio only. Describe this as a transfer addition, nothing more.
What happened since
as our sources stood when they were read
Still an active college player, due at North Dakota for 2026-27. She has represented Finland at FIBA U16 and U18 European Championship level.
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 what the ordinary version of the route actually looks like: a modest junior-college season, then a mid-major Division I roster spot, then another move. She was not a headline recruit and her published playing time is small, yet the pathway kept opening. It also shows that a first four-year school is not always the last 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
- VERIFIED: both cited URLs loaded and independently support the Finland to Eastern Florida State to Northern Illinois to North Dakota chain, the game counts and the high school.
- CORRECTED from the earlier draft: the Summit League affiliation for North Dakota was not printed in the article text we fetched. Do not name the conference for the North Dakota leg.
What is still unknown
- The NJCAA division level of Eastern Florida State's women's programme was not stated in either page we read. Write 'junior college', not 'NJCAA Division I'.
- 1 of her 3 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.
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: 92 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 | Juliana Haddad - Women's Basketball roster bio | Northern Illinois University Athletics | niuhuskies.com | Loaded and re-checked |
| 2 | Women's Basketball Set to Welcome Juliana Haddad for 2026-27 | University of North Dakota Athletics | fightinghawks.com | Loaded and re-checked |
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Routes through the same sequence of levels (7 of the 108 women documented here)
- Alexandra "Alex" Bolozova — Slovakia · Two-year college → NCAA DI → NCAA DI · 2 sites
- Catarina Ferreira — Brazil · Two-year college → NCAA DI → NCAA DI · 1 site
- Fatou Pouye — Senegal · Two-year college → NCAA DI → NCAA DI · 2 sites
- Johanna Teder — Estonia · Two-year college → NCAA DI → NCAA DI · 2 sites
- Maite Lara Garcia — Spain · Two-year college → NCAA DI → NCAA DI · 2 sites
- Raiane Dias Dos Santos — Brazil · Two-year college → NCAA DI → NCAA DI · 1 site
Other routes from Finland
- Julia Salmio — Finland · Two-year college → NCAA DII · 1 site
- 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.