TTT Riga signs NCAA champion from storied UConn program

Basketball club TTT Riga announced on Monday, August 17, that it has signed American player Aubrey Griffin (188 cm, born November 6, 2001) to a one-season contract. Griffin hails from Ossining, a small town on the Hudson River near New York City, where she won the "Miss New York Basketball" title in high school and led her team to the state championship.

In 2018, just before turning 17, Griffin committed to UConn, the most decorated program in college basketball history. Her career was marked by injuries — back problems kept her out for the entire 2021-2022 season, and a torn ACL in her left knee in January 2024 sidelined her for a full year. Despite this, Griffin became the first player in UConn history to represent the program across six seasons, reaching the NCAA Final Four four times and winning the national championship in 2025 alongside future top WNBA draft picks Paige Bueckers and Azzi Fudd.

Path to professional basketball

In the 2025 WNBA draft, Griffin was selected in the third round by Minnesota Lynx, but soon after underwent knee arthroscopy surgery. In 2026, she took part in the Lynx's preseason training camp but was waived in early May. She then signed a short-term hardship contract with the New York Liberty and, at the end of June, joined the women's 3x3 basketball series 3XBA.

Griffin comes from a basketball family — her father Adrian Griffin played in the NBA for a decade across several teams and served as head coach of the Milwaukee Bucks in 2023-2024, in addition to winning an NBA championship as a Toronto Raptors assistant coach in 2019. On the weekend of August 22-23, Griffin will host a two-day basketball camp in Westchester, near the New York Knicks' training facility.