St. John's Star Kendra Van Leeuwen Verbally Commits to NCAA D1 George Washington

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Brantford St. John's & Tri-County Thunder star Kendra Van Leeuwen has verbally committed to George Washington University, an NCAA Division I school in Washington, DC.

Van Leeuwen, a 5'10" PG, is slated to attend the school starting in the 2016-17 academic year.

The Colonials, a member of the A-10 conference, had a very successful season this past year, being ranked #19 in the NCAA Top 25.  They finished their regular season with a 29-3 mark (A10 champs), and were the #6 seed in their region for the NCAA tournament.

Aside from her exploits at Brantford St. John's, where she has led them to city & CWOSSA championships as well as OFSAA medals, Van Leeuwen has been on the national stage including being a member of Canada's National team at last year's U-17 FIBA World Championships.

At that event, she averaged 8.7 PPG and 4.0 RPG, while also leading Canada in steals with 16 in 7 games.

Once she officially signs with GW, she will make it a clean sweep of members of the Van Leeuwen family to head stateside on an athletic scholarship.  Older sister Kelly just finished her senior season on the basketball team at Niagara University, while older brother Tyler (also at Niagara) just completed his sophomore season as a member of the Men's Cross Country squad.