eligibility for the 2012-13 school year.
The 2013 World University
Games is being contested July 6-17 in Kazan, Russia. Trials for the USA Women’s
World University Games Team will be conducted May 16-19 at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo. Player selections will be made
by the USA Basketball Women’s Junior National Team Committee. USA Basketball women's teams
have participated in 16 prior World University Games and collected a record eight golds, six sil- vers and one bronze medal. Further, since 1973, the first year the USA women competed in the WUGs, the United States has compiled a 95-15 record. In 2011 the USA, led by 2012
NCAA National Player of the Year nominees Elena Delle Donne, Skylar Diggins and Nneka Ogwumike, posted a perfect 6-0 slate en route to the gold medal.
FIBA Americas U16 Championship For Men USA Basketball will invite
approximately 30 athletes, 16-years-old or younger (born on or after 1/1/97), to the USA U16 National Team training camp that will be conducted May 30- June 7 at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo. Members of the USA U16 Team will be selected by USA Basketball’s Developmental National Team Committee. The 2013 FIBA Americas U16
Championship, which is scheduled to be held June 11-15 in Punta del Este, Uruguay, will feature eight national teams from North, South and Central America and the Caribbean. Including host Uruguay, also qualified are Canada and the United States as the North American entries; while Puerto Rico (gold medalist), Mexico (silver medalist) and Bahamas (bronze medalist) qualified through the 2012 Centrobasket U15 Championship; and Argentina (gold medalist) and Chile (bronze medalist) qualified through the 2012 South American U15 Championship. The top three finishing teams will
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Shabazz Muhammad made his USA Basketball debut at the 2012 Nike Hoops Summit and didn’t disappoint fans when he scored a Nike Hoop Summit record 35 points.
qualify for the 2014 FIBA U17 World Championship. The 2014 U17 Worlds will have an expanded field - from 12 to 16 teams - and FIBA has yet to announce which zones will receive an extra berth. Traveling to Mendoza, Argentina,
for the inaugural FIBA Americas U16 Championship in 2009, the U.S. squad was flat out impressive. Scoring an average of 113.0 points a game, the USA team won its five games by an average of 33.8 points a game to claim the competition's first gold medal. Things weren’t much different in
2011 as the U.S. squad dominated its opponents by an average margin of 42.2 points per contest en route to a perfect 5-0 mark and the gold medal.
FIBA Americas U16 Championship For Women Approximately 30 athletes, 16-
years-old or younger (born on or after 1/1/97), will be invited by USA Basketball to the USA U16 National Team Trials which will be conducted in May 23-27 at the U.S. Olympic Training
Center in Colorado Springs, Colo. Members of the USA U16 Team will be selected by the USA Basketball Women’s Developmental National Team Committee. The 2013 FIBA Americas U16
Championship will feature eight nation- al teams from North, South and Central America and the Caribbean. Including the host country which
is to be determined, Canada and the United States are the North American entries; Puerto Rico (gold medalists), Mexico (silver medalists) and Coasta Rica (bronze medalists) qualified from the 2012 U15 Centrobasket Championship; and Brazil, Venezuela and Argentina qualified from the 2012 South American U15 Championship. The dates and site of the 2013 FIBA Americas U16 Championship are to be announced. The 2009 USA Women’s U16
National Team cruised undefeated through the tournament and won its five games by an average of 70.0 points a game. The 2011 U.S. squad was not
much different, knocking off its oppo- nents in Merida, Mexico, by an aver-
age margin of 43.2 points per contest en route to a perfect 5-0 mark, the gold medal and the USA's 2012 U17 World Championship berth.
Nike Hoop Summit The 16th annual Nike Hoop Summit
will undoubtedly continue to expand on the incredible legacy of the event. The 2013 Nike Hoop Summit will
again be played at the Rose Garden, home of the Portland Trail Blazers, on Saturday, April 20, 4 p.m. PDT. The Nike Hoop Summit is the
country's premiere annual basketball game and the only game featuring America's top male high school senior players taking on a World Select Team comprised of the world's top players who are 19-years-old or younger. The game is played under international rules. The 2013 USA Basketball Junior
National Select Team roster will be selected by the USA Basketball Men's Developmental National Team Committee. The USA enjoys an 11-4 series
advantage in the Nike Hoop Summit, but 17
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