men's, women's, boys and girls, and standing as the current men's and women's champions in the Olympics, men's and women's FIBA World Championships; women’s FIBA U19 World Champions; men's and women's FIBA U17 World Champions; the men's and women's U18 and U16 FIBA Americas champions, and the women’s 3x3 World Champions and 3x3 U18 World Champions, USA teams always have a big target on the back of their jerseys, and the 2013 schedule of events will see USA Basketball facing plenty of challenges. USA teams will have their hands
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full in 2013, with men’s and women’s teams competing in the FIBA U19 World Championships, the World University Games and the FIBA Americas U16 Championships. USA Basketball also will field a men’s Junior National Select Team, which is comprised of top high school players, for the 16th annual Nike Hoop Summit. FIBA 3x3 basketball continued to
develop and in 2013 FIBA will again conduct 3x3 U18 World Championships for men and women. International basketball fans will
also watch the men’s and women’s FIBA World Cup/Championship Qualifying Tournaments that will be utilized to determine each zone’s teams that will qualify for the 2014 FIBA World Cup/Championship.
FIBA U19 World Championship For Men The 2013 FIBA U19 World
Championship for Men will be contested June 27-July 7 in Prague, Czech Republic. The 2013 FIBA U19 World Championship for Men features 16 of the world’s top U19 national teams that will battle for gold, silver and bronze medals. The USA earned its qualifying spot
for the U19 worlds last summer by capturing top honors with a 5-0 record at the FIBA Americas U18 Championship. Approximately 30 athletes,
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anked No. 1 in all five of FIBA's world ranking cate- gories, including combined,
Challenges Abound For USA Basketball Teams In 2013 2013 USA Basketball Event Calendar
April 20 May 16-19 May 23-27
Nike Hoop Summit (Men) Portland, Oregon
USA Basketball U19 National Team/World University Games Trials (Women) Colorado Springs, Colorado
USA Basketball U16 National Team Trials (Women) Colorado Springs, Colorado
May 30-June 7 USA Basketball U16 National Team Training Camp (Men) Colorado Springs, Colorado
June 11-15 June 14-19 TBD
FIBA Americas U16 Championship (Men) Maldonado, Uruguay
USA Basketball U19 National Team Training Camp (Men) Colorado Springs, Colorado
FIBA Americas U16 Championship (Women) TBD
June 25-July 3 USA Basketball World University Games Team Training Camp (Men) Colorado Springs, Colorado
June 27 - July 7 FIBA U19 World Championship (Men) Prague, Czech Republic
July 6-17 World University Games (Men & Women) Kazan, Russia
July 18-28 July 23-27 August 2-4
FIBA U19 World Championship (Women) Panevezys and Klaipeda, Lithuania
USA Basketball National Team Training Camp (Men) Las Vegas, Nevada
USA Basketball 3x3 Open National Tournament (Men & Women) Colorado Springs, Colorado
August 9-11 USA Basketball 3x3 U18 National Tournament (Men & Women) Colorado Springs, Colorado
Sept. 26-29 Oct. 14-17
FIBA 3x3 U18 World Championship (Men & Women) Jakarta, Indonesia
USA Basketball Developmental National Team Mini-Camp (Men) Colorado Springs, Colorado
19-years-old or younger (born on or after 1/1/94), are expected to participate in the team’s training camp which will be held June 14-19 at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo. Player selections for the USA U19 team will be made by USA Basketball’s Junior National Team Committee.
The 16 nations who qualified
include host Czech Republic, and 15 other nations that earned a spot through FIBA’s five zone qualifying tournaments. In addition to the USA (gold medalist), also advancing out of the 2012 FIBA
Americas U18 Championship were Brazil (silver medalist), Canada (bronze medalist) and Argentina (fourth place); FIBA Africa advanced Senegal (gold medalist) and Ivory Coast (silver medal- ist); China (gold medalist), South Korea (silver medalist) and Iran (bronze medalist) earned berths out of FIBA Asia; Australia took FIBA Oceania’s spot after wining a best-of-three series against New Zealand; while FIBA Europe will be represented by Croatia (gold medal- ist), Lithuania (silver medalist), Serbia (bronze medalist), Russia (fourth place)
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