Nirra Fields is a Canadian basketball player for the University of California, Los Angeles Bruins and the Canadian national team, where she participated at the 2014 World Championship.
Education
Fields started high school at Lakeside Academy in Montreal in 2007. The following year she spent at Regina in South Euclid, Ohio. She spent her junior year at Oak Hill Academy in Virginia, where she averaged 26.5 points per game.
She transferred to Mater Dei in Santa Ana, California for her senior year.
Although she only played for Mater Dei for one year she made enough of an impact that the school retired her jersey at the end of the year. During the year she averaged just over 22 points a game to help the team to a 34–3 record, and a CIF Steamship Division 1AA state championship.
She was named a McDonald"s All-American and eligible to play in them McDonald"s All-American game, the first female Canadian to earn such an honor.
Career
Fields played for Canada in the 2010 Under-17 World Championship for Women held in Toulouse and Rodez, France from July 16–25, 2010. She averaged 22.4 points and 6.9 rebounds per game. She scored 30 points against France and 36 against Japan.
The following year, she played for the Canadian team in the 2011 Under-19 World Championship for Women held in Puerto Montt, Chile.
She helped the team to a fifth-place finish with an 8–1 record. She averaged 15.9 points and 5.4 rebounds per game.
In 2014, she played for the senior women"s national team at the 2014 World Championship for Women held in Ankara and Istanbul, Turkey from 27 September to 5 October 2014. She helped the team to a fifth-place finish with an overall record of 4–3.
She averaged 5.7 points and 2.6 rebounds per game.
The following day they beat Argentina 73–58. Canada would face Brazil in the semifinal. Everything seemed to go right in the semifinal game.
Canada opened the game with an 11–2 run on seven consecutive points by Miranda Ayim.
Miah-Marie Langlois contributed five assists. In the third quarter Canada strongly out rebounded Brazil and hit 69% of their field goals to score 33 points in the quarter.
Lizanne Murphy and Fields hit three-pointers to help extend the lead to 68–39 at the end of three quarters. Canada continued to dominate in the fourth quarter with three-pointers by Kia Nurse and Kim Gaucher.
The gold-medal game matched up the host team Canada against United States of America, in a sold out arena dominated by fans in red and white and waving the Canadian flag.
The Canadian team, arm in arm, sang Oh Canada as the respective national anthems were played. After trading baskets early the United States edged out to a double-digit lead in the second quarter. However the Canadians, spurred on by the home crowd cheering, fought back and tied up the game at halftime.
In the third quarter, it was Canada"s time to shine as they outscore the United States 26–15.
The lead would reach as high as 18 points. lieutenant was Canada"s first gold-medal in basketball in the Pan Am games.
Nurse was the star for Canada with 33 points, hitting 11 of her 12 free-throw attempts in 10 of her 17 field-goal attempts including two of three three-pointers. Fields contributed seven rebounds to lead the team and nine points.
Membership
Fields was a member of the Canada women"s national basketball team which participated in basketball at the 2015 Pan American Games held in Toronto, Canada July 10 to 26, 2015.