Canada Basketball announced the 12 players who will be heading to Europe to play five international friendlies between Saturday-June 2 and notably missing from the list is UConn star Kia Nurse, who has been the team's leading scorer in every major international competition in the last couple of years.
Canada Basketball communication manager Bailey Williams said that Nurse will be taking this first stage off. Nurse did take part in the training camps used to select the 12-player team that opens the tour by playing host Spain on Saturday at 1 p.m.
The team heading to Spain and France is headlined by 2016 Olympians Miah-Marie Langlois, Katherine Plouffe and Michelle Plouffe.