Savvy Swords
Canadian basketball player (born 2008)
Savannah Swords (born January 18, 2008) is a Canadian basketball player who attends Long Island Lutheran. She is a five-star recruit and committed to play college basketball at Kentucky,
High school career
Swords attends Long Island Lutheran. During her junior year she averaged 16 points, 13 rebounds, four assists and three steals per game in five games, before suffering a season-ending injury. She tore her ACL in December 2024, and underwent surgery in January 2025.
On June 23, 2025, Swords committed to play college basketball at Kentucky. On February 2, 2026, she was selected to play in the 2026 McDonald's All-American Girls Game.
National team career
Swords represented Canada at the 2023 FIBA Under-16 Women's Americas Championship where she averaged 13.3 points, 5.8 rebounds and 1.8 assists per game and won a silver medal. During the gold medal game against the United States she scored a team-high 22 points.
She represented Canada at the 2024 FIBA Under-17 Women's Basketball World Cup where she averaged 16.3 points, six rebounds, 3.1 steals and 2.3 assists per game, and won a silver medal. During the gold medal game against the United States, she scored a team-high 15 points, along with six rebounds, three blocks and a steal.
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