Mendonca Signs for basketball with Notre Dame de Namur

College of the Redwoods sophomore Aubrey Mendonca will continue her education and basketball playing career at Notre Dame de Namur University next year. Mendonca led the Corsairs to a second place finish in the Golden Valley Conference this season.  She was selected to First Team All-Golden Valley Conference (GVC) after a season in which she averaged 21.4 points per game, second highest in the GVC and fourth highest in the state.  The 5’ 5” guard also hit 34.8% of her shots beyond the 3-point arc and averaged three assists per game. 

Mendonca has carried a 3.87 grade point average at Redwoods and has qualified for the President’s Honors List in both of her two semesters at the college.  She is a graduate of West Valley High School in Cottonwood near Redding and transferred to Redwoods from Oregon Institute of Technology (OIT) in Klamath Falls.  She had participated in basketball as a freshman at OIT. 

Notre Dame de Namur, located in Belmont just south of San Francisco, is a private Catholic university.  The Argonauts compete in the Pacific West Conference (Pac West) in NCAA Division II.  The Pac West includes universities in Hawaii, California and Utah.