The Saskatchewan Huskies are 2025 U SPORTS women's basketball champions. Photo: Rich Lam/UBC Athletics Photo

By Ryan Flaherty

mission accomplished

Huskies win third national championship

Mar 16, 2025 | 9:32 PM

The Saskatchewan Huskies are back on top of the mountain. The Huskies women’s basketball team captured its third national championship with an 85-66 win over the Carleton Ravens on Sunday in Vancouver, avenging a loss to the Ravens in last year’s title game and reclaiming the Bronze Baby Trophy.

U SPORTS Player of the Year Gage Grassick was spectacular in the victory, scoring a career-high 35 points and adding seven rebounds, seven assists and three steals in the statement win. The fourth-year point guard from Prince Albert was especially lethal from long range, burying seven threes, another career best. Her scoring output is the sixth-highest point total ever recorded in the title game.

In typical Huskies fashion, however, several players came up big in the final. Téa DeMong, playing on an injured left ankle that put her playing status in doubt for both the Huskies semifinal win over UBC and the championship game, put up 13 points and two assists in a gritty performance.

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One night after matching her own career high with 19 points against UBC, Andrea Dodig tallied 12 points, all in the first half. The lone potential graduate on the team is the only remaining holdover from the Huskies last national title win in 2020, and still has a year of eligibility left, leaving the door open for a return next season.

Fourth-year forward Ella Murphy Wiebe, who has battled injuries throughout her Huskies career and missed the first half of this season, delivered another solid playoff effort, notching nine points and seven rebounds in 24 strong minutes off the bench.

In a fitting bit of symmetry, the 2025 championship game victory is also the 25th career win at the national tournament for head coach Lisa Thomaidis, who has been on the bench for all ten of Saskatchewan’s Canada West titles and all three national triumphs.

Through all of their accomplishments in the Thomaidis era, the one thing the Huskies have yet to do is win back-to-back national titles. But with virtually the entire roster returning next season, they’ll have a great opportunity to check that box, too.

But right now, it’s time to celebrate. The Huskies will fly back to Saskatoon on Monday before hosting a championship rally at the Physical Activities Complex on Wednesday at noon.

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