SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Santa Clara women's basketball has added three transfers to their signing class for the 2022-23 season.
Ayzhiana Basallo | G | 5-5 | San Francisco, Calif. | St. Ignatius | Arizona State
Basallo played last year at Arizona State where she got into 24 games and averaged 4.8 ppg. She shot 37.9-percent from downtown and 86.9-percent from the charity stripe.
In 2019-20, Basallo helped San Jose State to 19-12 record after just six wins in the previous season (the best win total improvement in all of Division I). She concluded the season as a Her Hoop Stats Becky Hammon Mid-Major Player of the Year semifinalist and was also named to the All-Mountain West Team for a campaign that included back-to-back Mountain West Player of the Week awards.
Basallo started her college career at Cal Poly where she earned the Big West Conference Sixth Player of the Year award for a freshman campaign in which she averaged 7.6 points and shot 41-percent both from the floor and beyond the arc and 81-percent from the line.
As a senior point guard for St. Ignatius Prep, Basallo helped lead the Wildcats to the regional semifinals of the Division III CIF State Championship Tournament, following a run to the consolation final in the Central Coast Section Open Division playoffs. That year she averaged 15.0 points, 2.7 assists and 1.3 steals en route to a second consecutive San Francisco Chronicle All-Metro honor and All-West Catholic Athletic League First Team accolade. She played her freshman and sophomore years at Lick-Wilmerding High School, during which the Tigers went 43-12, won two Bay Counties West League titles and made back-to-back North Coast Section Division IV quarterfinals appearances. In 2015, she was also chosen as the SF Chronicle's Sophomore of the Year and BCWL Player of the Year after averaging 24.3 points and 4.5 assists.
Jayde Cadee | G | 5-11 | Melbourne, Australia | Ivanhoe Girls Grammar School | UC Irvine
Cadee spent the last three seasons at UC Irvine where she appeared in 87 games.
Last season Cadee started 14 of the 32 games she played and averaged 6.2 ppg with 2.1 rpg. She finished second on the team with 51 3-pointers made.
During the 2020-21 season, Cadee started in five of the Anteaters' 24 games while averaging 5.0 ppg and 1.9 rpg. That year she ranked second with 36 3-pointers and was named to the Big West All-Academic Team.
She appeared in 31 games as a true freshman and averaged 6.1 ppg, 1.9 rpg, and 0.8 apg while finishing first on the team in 3-pointers made (59) and 3-point field goal percentage (35.3).
Cadee won the Girls Sport Victoria's State Championship Tournament while at Ivanhoe Girls Grammar School.
She was also a member of the Vitoria Metro State team that won the U-18 Australian National Championship. During the tournament she averaged 9 ppg while going 21-for-52 from beyond the arc.
Cadee was also selected to the U-17 Australian squad of 22 that was preparing for the 2018 FIBA World Cup.
Playing for Bulleen Club, Cadee won state titles in 2014, '16, and '18 and earned all-state honors her final season.
Olivia Pollerd | F | 6-3 | Melbourne, Australia | Lake Gininnderra College | Washington
Pollerd spent last season at Washington, getting into five games.
She has represented the state of Victoria at the Australian Junior Championships level and helped her Victorian team win the 2020 U-20 nationals.
She starred during Australia's dominant run to the 2019 FIBA U-17 Oceania Championship, averaging a team-high 23.4 minutes and finished second in scoring with 13.2 points per game. She was also one of the youngest players for Australia at the FIBA U-19 Asian Cup where she earned a gold medal at the FIBA U-17 Oceanic Championships.
Pollerd also participated in the Basketball Without Borders Global Camp at the 2020 NBA All-Star game.
She signed as a 15-year-old to be a development player for the Deakin Melbourne Boomers in the WNBL.
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