Cass Prosper’s comeback from a chronic lower-leg injury will finally move into the public eye — and on a grand stage.
On Tuesday, the Notre Dame rising junior guard was named to the 12-player Olympic women’s basketball roster for Team Canada, putting her on track to compete in the upcoming Olympic Games in Paris.
Former Notre Dame standout and current WNBA star Natalie Achonwa also made the team — and made history. The 31-year-old forward is the first four-time Olympian in Canadian women’s basketball history.
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In 2009, she became the youngest player to make the Canadian senior team to play in international competition at age 16. She played in her first Olympics three years later.
Achonwa is a 2014 graduate of Notre Dame and native of Ontario. She was an AP third-team All-American in 2015. She had a career field-goal percentage of 56.2, eighth in Irish history. Her 970 career rebounds rank fifth, and her 1,546 career points 17th all-time.
Prosper has yet to play a full season for the Irish. In December of 2022, she cut her high school senior season short to join the Irish roster as an early enrollee. Last season the Montreal native averaged 8.2 points, 4.2 rebounds and 1.8 steals over the five games in which she saw the court before sitting out the rest of the season with her injury and logging a medical redshirt year.
One of those games was ND’s season-opening loss to eventual national champ South Carolina, a game played in Paris, at Halle Georges Carpentier Arena.
The quarterfinals, semis and medal games for the upcoming Olympics will all be staged in Paris, but at Accor Arena. The round-robin group play for these Olympic games will be staged in Lille. Canada, one of 12 teams in the competition, opens group play July 29 against host France. Australia and Nigeria are also in Canada’s group.
The gold medal game is set for Aug. 11.
Two former Notre Dame players and current WNBA stars, guards Jewell Loyd and Jackie Young, were previously named to Team USA’s Olympic roster.
Group play starts July 28, with Team USA’s opener coming July 29 against Japan.
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