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It is not every year here in Canada, where two players at the same position, with similar skill, size and ability top the chart. Add to it, that both of the players in question are rated at 5-stars, and there is the brewing of a contentious debate, which could very well last the length of both of their high school and may not still even be conclusive. It is not since the Kia Nurse/Shay Colley debates that took place as both had emerged on the scene with an eye on graduating in the Class of 2014, has a similar ‘too close to call’ comparison required this type of scrutiny.
Enter the era of Sarah Te-Biasu and Shayeann Day-Wilson.
Both have shown that they are able to put their teams on their back, while playing against competition that are years older than them, each with a toolkit of skill well beyond their years.
But there can only be one, and looking at her body of work, the nod had to go to Te-Biasu. With a look at her body of work which included a strong finishes in provincial play with L-P, a stand out performance at FIBA Americas with the Canadian National team it was hard not to. Add to that a Canada Games that was capped off with a 23-point performance in the Gold Medal game at the U17 level, and that begins to describe just a fraction of what tilted the scales in her favour.
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