2013 MEN’S U19 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
USA Men Reclaim FIBA U19 World Championship Gold, Win Nine Games By An Average Of 39.6 Points A Game
“I feel very, very honored my country asked me to coach this team. I think USA Basketball could have picked a lot of coaches who would have done a wonderful job... It was a special team and I just feel honored that I could be a part of it.”
USA Head Coach Billy Donovan
the 16 U19 national teams, the USA ranked No. 1 in 12 of the 18 team statistical categories. The 12-man USA Basketball
U19 World Championship Team roster was announced June 17
and featured eight players with prior USA Basketball experience includ- ing five players from last summer’s USA U18 Americas Championship Team that captured gold. Selected for the USA U19
Above Top: After earning a hard fought 82-68 victory over Serbia in the gold medal game, the USA U19 World Championship Team, with gold medals in hand, celebrated its golden achievement. Above: There was nothing but joy when the USA U19 Team stepped on the gold medal podium.
States battled to a perfect 9-0 mark and claimed the U19 gold medal in Prague, Czech Republic. University of Florida head coach
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Billy Donovan returned to coach the 2013 squad after qualifying the USA for the U19 World Championship by leading the U.S. to a 5-0 mark and the gold medal at the 2012 FIBA Americas U18 Championship.
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or the second time in the last three FIBA U19 World Championships the United
The 2013 U.S. coaching staff
also returned assistant coach Shaka Smart (Virginia Commonwealth University) and added former USA Basketball player and successful colle- giate coach Tony Bennett (University of Virginia) to the coaching staff. Winning all nine of its games by an
average of 39.6 points a game, the U.S. established five USA team competition records, three individual competition records, tied one individual game record and tied one team game record. Among
World Championship Team were Michael Frazier (University of Florida/Tampa, Fla.); Aaron Gordon (Archbishop Mitty H.S./San Jose, Calif.); Jerami Grant (Syracuse University/Bowie, Md.); Montrezl Harrell (University of Louisville/ Tarboro, N.C.); Jahlil Okafor
(Whitney Young H.S./Chicago, Ill.); Elfrid Payton (University of Louisiana/ Gretna, La.); Marcus Smart (Oklahoma State University/Flower Mound, Texas); Jarnell Stokes (University of Tennessee/ Memphis, Tenn.); Rasheed Sulaimon (Duke University/Houston, Texas); Mike Tobey (University of Virginia/Monroe, N.Y.); Nigel Williams-Goss (Findlay Prep/ Happy Valley, Ore.); and Justise Winslow (St. Johns H.S./Houston, Texas). Grant was unable to participate
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