2013 WOMEN’S U19 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP “I’m awfully proud. It’s
USA Women Roll To 9-0 Record For Fifth-Consecutive FIBA U19 World Championship Gold Medal
Katie Meier led the 2013 USA Women’s U19 Team to a dominating showing, an impeccable 9-0 record and the gold medal at the FIBA U19 World Championship for Women in Lithuania. Held July 18-28 in Klaipeda and Panevėžys, Lithuania, the gold medal finish was the USA’s fifth- straight at the FIBA U19 World Championship.
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members of the gold-medal winning 2011 USA Basketball Women’s U19 World Championship Team, the 12- member USA team was announced following four days of trials on May 19. Held May 16-19 at the U.S.
Olympic Training Center (USOTC) in Colorado Springs, Colo., the USA U19 trials featured 33 athletes age 19-years-old and younger (born on or after Jan. 1, 1994). The team was selected by the USA Basketball Junior National Team Committee, chaired by UT Chattanooga head coach Jim Foster. Headlining the USA’s U19 team
in 2013 were Alexis Jones (Duke/ Irving, Texas), Breanna Stewart (Connecticut/North Syracuse, N.Y.) and Morgan Tuck (Connecticut/ Bolingbrook, Ill.), all three became the only U.S. athletes to ever repeat on a USA U19 squad. Also named to the squad were five
other USA Basketball gold medalists, including Candice Agee (Penn State/ Victorville, Calif.); Bashaara Graves (Tennessee/Clarksville, Tenn.); Linnae Harper (Whitney Young H.S./Chicago, Ill.); Moriah Jefferson (Connecticut/ Glenn Heights, Texas); and Brianna Turner (Manvel H.S./Pearland, Texas). The 2013 U19 team also featured a talented foursome of newcomers in Nia
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arrying on from where her U18 team left off the previous summer, USA head coach
so much to share it with the others and the
people that were on the journey with you. That’s really the joy of it all.”
USA Head Coach Katie Meier
Left: Brianna Stewart was selected MVP of the FIBA U19 World Championship. Below: Following presentation of the gold medals, USA team members gather for a final team picture.
Coffey (Hopkins H.S./Minneapolis, Minn.); Gabby Green (St. Mary’s College H.S./Oakland, Calif.); Kelsey Plum (La Jolla Country Day/Poway, Calif.); and A’ja Wilson (Heathwood Hall H.S/ Hopkins, S.C.). While Meier, who is head mentor at
the University of Miami, was the USA head coach, collegiate head coaches Nikki Caldwell of Louisiana State University and Kelly Graves of Gonzaga University served assistant coaches. Stewart, who averaged a team-best 16.2 ppg., while adding 6.2 rpg. and
shooting 50.9 percent from the field and a red-hot 58.3 percent from 3-point, was selected MVP of the U19 World Championship. “I was just having fun this tourna-
ment,” said Stewart about earning MVP honors. “I was really looking forward to it. Shots were falling, which is always really nice, but the gold is the most important thing.” “She deserved it,” said Harper. “She
led us throughout the whole tournament. When we needed her, she was there. She’s a good team player and a leader. She
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