The route Kadri-Ann Lass took into university basketball
Guard / forward (6'3")
Athlavia had no involvement with Kadri-Ann Lass. 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
One institution on the record: Duquesne University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), 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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Duquesne University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
NCAA DINCAA Division I
Atlantic 10
2015-16 (freshman) through 2018-19 (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.
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
From Tallinn, Estonia. Her Duquesne bio lists her high school as Audentese Spordigümnaasium (Audentes Sports Gymnasium). She was named Best Forward by Eurobasket.com for the 2014 FIBA U18 European Championship.
What happened, in the sources’ account
Lass went from an Estonian sports gymnasium straight into a mid-major Division I programme and stayed all four years. She made the Atlantic 10 All-Rookie team and the A-10 All-Championship team as a freshman, was a programme-record seven-time A-10 Rookie of the Week, and was twice named to the A-10 All-Defensive team. She left as Duquesne's all-time shot block leader and holds the programme record for blocks in a game with eight against Massachusetts. Her Duquesne bio lists her major as environmental science and records her on the Director of Athletics' Honor Roll.
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.
Nothing published in the sources we fetched. Her Duquesne bio and the Wikipedia article cover her playing record, honours, hometown and major, and state no scholarship, aid figure or financial term of any kind.
What happened since
Professional in Europe: Wisła Can-Pack Kraków (Poland, August 2019 to 2020), UNI Győr (Hungary, 2020-21), CB Bembibre (Spain, August 2021 to May 2022) and IDK Euskotren (Spain, August 2022 to January 2023). Estonia senior international since 2015, including a 3x3 silver medal at the 2019 European 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 mid-major, non-headline programme gave her four uninterrupted years, a conference-level playing record and a named science degree subject, and a professional career followed anyway. For families weighing the degree as heavily as the basketball, she is the clearest case that you do not need a famous university for either part to work.
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 URLs load. The Duquesne bio confirms guard/forward, 6-3, Tallinn, Audentese Spordigümnaasium, environmental science major, 2015-16 through 2018-19, all-time shot block leader, seven-time A-10 Rookie of the Week, A-10 All-Rookie, All-Defensive team, Director of Athletics' Honor Roll.
- REMOVED as unsupported: the figure of 282 career blocks, the claim that she led the conference in blocks as a junior, and the U18 averages of 12.0 points and 12.9 rebounds. None appears in the sources we fetched. Say 'Duquesne's all-time shot block leader' without a number.
- CORRECTED: the researcher said she 'graduated with a degree in environmental science'. The bio lists environmental science as her major; it does not state that she graduated. Word it as a major.
- CORRECTED: A-10 All-Defensive team is listed by Wikipedia for 2018 and 2019 (two selections), not a single junior-year selection.
What is still unknown
- Her professional club years come from Wikipedia only. Re-check against a league or FIBA source if they are to be stated precisely in the published piece.
Our own summary above carried her date of birth. It has been taken out: it is on no route, it explains nothing about one, and it is the most identifying thing in our file about a living woman who did not ask to be in it. Nothing else in those paragraphs has been changed.
Researcher’s own rating: 90 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 | Kadri-Ann Lass - Women's Basketball player bio | Duquesne University Athletics | goduquesne.com | Loaded and re-checked |
| 2 | Kadri-Ann Lass | Wikipedia | en.wikipedia.org | Loaded and re-checked |
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Routes through the same sequence of levels (26 of the 108 women documented here)
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 Estonia
- Johanna Teder — Estonia · Two-year college → NCAA DI → NCAA DI · 2 sites
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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.