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Nirra Fields

Nirra Fields
Nirra Fields 2016.jpg
Free agent
Position Point guard
Personal information
Born (1993-12-03) December 3, 1993 (age 23)
Vancouver, British Columbia
Nationality Canadian
Listed height 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)
Career information
High school Mater Dei (Santa Ana, California)
College UCLA (2012–2016)
WNBA draft 2016 / Round: 3 / Pick: 32nd overall
Selected by the Phoenix Mercury
Playing career 2016–present
Career history
2016 Phoenix Mercury

Nirra Fields (born 3 December 1993) is a Canadian professional basketball player, who is a free agent. She last played for the Phoenix Mercury of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). Fields represents the Canadian national team internationally, where she participated at the 2014 FIBA World Championship.

Fields started high school at Lakeside Academy in Montreal in 2007. The following year she spent at Regina High School 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 High School 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 SS 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.

Fields played for Canada in the 2010 FIBA 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 FIBA 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.


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