Chelsea Aubry

Chelsea Aubry, raised in Kitchener, achieved success at the international level of women’s basketball. Her childhood years were centred on physical movement, whether in dance class or the soccer pitch. As a student at Grand River Collegiate Institute, she expanded her athletic pursuits on the Renegades’ teams and mastered multiple sports including volleyball and rugby. It was on the basketball team, where she played power forward, that her athletic career started to take shape. She was named Athlete of the Year in both her junior and senior years.

Chelsea was selected as one of the country’s 72 top players to attend the Nike All-Canada Camp in Toronto, and was also tapped as one of the top five high school players in Ontario. She worked at improving her game as a member of the Waterloo Wildhawks, the regional basketball house league. Its programming is dedicated to skills development and teamwork, and with Chelsea on their team, were provincial champions.

In 2002-2003, Chelsea played for the Canadian U20 National Team, and the Canadian World University Games.

Chelsea was scouted as a top recruit for US College Basketball and was accepted by several colleges. She chose the University of Nebraska(UN)-(National Collegiate Athletic Association Division 1) and in 2003, her freshman year, she was the first Canadian to play for the UN Huskers.

In her four years at UN, playing both offence and defence, she scored 898 points and had 539 rebounds. In her senior year she averaged 8.4 points and 4.5 rebounds per game. Chelsea started in 90 games including 78 straight to end her career. In her senior year, as team captain, she led her team to its first NCAA Tournament appearance since 2000.

Among Chelsea’s many on-court achievements while at Nebraska are Second-team Academic All-Big 12 Conference (2005, 2007), NCAA Leadership Conference Participant (2005), Nebraska Team Captain (2005, 2006, 2007), NCAA Student-Athlete Advisory Committee Representative, and still managed to make the Big 12 Commissioner’s Academic Honor Roll. Chelsea graduated with International Business and Ethnic Studies degrees.

Chelsea competed at two FIBA World Championships in 2006 (Brazil) and 2010 (Czech Republic) with Canada Basketball at the International Federation of Basketball (FIBA) World Championship for Women. FIBA is the worldwide governing body that regulates and oversees international competitions.

In 2012, Chelsea, team captain of the Canada Basketball Senior Women’s National Team, helped secure them a berth, on Canada Day no less, at the London Olympic Games. Canada advanced to the quarter finals.

Chelsea played for Canada Basketball for 12 years and captained the Canadian Senior Women’s National Basketball team for 6 years. During Chelsea’s playing career with the Canadian Sr Women’s National Team, the team went from 22nd to 8th ranked team in the world.

Launching her professional career in Europe, she played in Slovakia for a season and then in Australia for seven seasons with Bendigo Spirit. Chelsea helped Bendigo Spirit claim back to back championships in the Australian Women’s National Basketball League National Championship.

Chelsea retired from playing in 2015, but post career, was involved for three years with the local Rising Stars basketball program as a Senior Coordinator and Project Manager. As a LEAD Programs Instructor and Facilitator, she coordinated programs in both the athletics and education divisions. Chelsea was a major contributor to the Rising Stars’ collection of innovative programs for youth, students and athletes. Chelsea joined the Kitchener-Waterloo Basketball Officials Association starting her officiating in 2024-2025.

Chelsea currently lives in Cambridge with her husband Shane and two children, Matilda age 6, and Brooks, age 4.