When the WNBA came to Canada for an exhibition last Saturday, it was hailed in part as an opportunity to show young girls that their basketball dreams are possible.
“If I were to go to a game in Canada, especially just being able to see people that look like me, that I could potentially fill their shoes one day, I would have had those dreams for myself,” said Bridget Carleton, the Chatham, Ont., native who was the lone Canadian to play in the game at Scotiabank Arena.
“And it really wasn’t until like my senior year of college where I thought, ‘Oh,
