2014 YOUTH OLYMPIC GAMES
U.S. Youth Olympic Women’s Team Captures First 3x3 Basketball Youth Olympic Games Gold Medal
al Youth Olympic Games 3x3 Women’s Basketball competition, the USA women proved unbeatable and rolled to a perfect 13-0 mark to capture the gold medal at the 2014 Youth Olympic Games that was held Aug. 16-28 in Nanjing, China.
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competition at the 2014 Youth Olympic Games was played in a 3x3 format organized by the International Olympic Committee and FIBA. The 2014 Youth Olympic Games included 20 men's teams and 20 women's teams. Each 3x3 national team was comprised of four players, and athletes eligible for the competi- tion had to be between 17-18 years old (born between 1/1/1996 and 12/31/1997).
our years after finishing third in the inaugur-
“At first I was really nervous with the Netherlands game, but I was so confident in our girls, and I knew they would come on strong in the end. I’m just so proud of them.”
Dori Oldaker USA Head Coach
finished runner-up at the 2013 USA Basketball 3x3 National Championship and finished second at the 2013 USA Basketball 3x3 U18 National Championship. Opening play Aug. 18, the U.S. was
without Samuelson who was recovering from an ankle sprain. Despite being shorthanded, behind 11 points and an 11-of-12 shooting effort by Collier, the USA opened preliminary play with a 21-3 victory over Romania. The USA improved to 3-0 after
The 2014 U.S. Youth Olympic Women’s Basketball Team went 13-0 over the nine day competition to capture the gold medal in the 3x3 competition at the 2014 Youth Olympic Games.
The USA team was led by head
coach Dori Oldaker (Mt. Lebanon H.S., Pa.), and featured four USA Basketball veterans: De’Janae Boykin (Charles H. Flowers H.S./ Springdale, Md.), Napheesa Collier (Incarnate World Academy/O’Fallon, Mo.), Arike Ogunbowale (Divine Savior Holy Angels H.S./Milwaukee, Wis.) and Katie Lou Samuelson (Mater Dei H.S./Huntington Beach, Calif.).
Boykin, Ogunbowale and
Samuelson were fresh off helping lead the USA to a gold medal at the 2014 FIBA U17 World Championship in the Czech Republic, and last summer the trio helped lead the USA to a gold medal at the 2013 FIBA Americas U16
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Championship. Collier was part of the 2014 USA Basketball U18 National Team that won gold at the FIBA Americas U18 Championship.
Boykin, Collier and Ogunbowale
were members of Defend, which rolled through the 2014 USA Basketball Women’s 3x3 U18 National Championship with a 6-0 record to claim the title. Additionally, Ogunbowale and
Samuelson claimed gold as members of the 2013 USA 3x3 U18 World Championship Team that went 8-1 to win the FIBA 3x3 U18 World Championship in Jakarta, Indonesia. They also were members of Defend that won the 2013 USA Basketball Women’s 3x3 U18 National Championship. In 2013, Collier’s Primus team
convincing wins of 21-2 versus Indonesia and 21-6 over Egypt. Collier again led all scorers, finishing with 12 points against Indonesia and 11 versus Egypt. Ogunbowale netted six against Indonesia and seven versus Egypt, while Boykin added three points in each game.
Day three of the competition saw the
USA’s winning way continue and the Americans won their fourth straight game, comfortably defeating Thailand 21-5. For the fourth-consecutive outing Collier lead all scorers with 13 points, while Ogunbowale scored the remaining eight points for the U.S. Facing what on paper was consid-
ered its toughest opponent to that point, the U.S. had no difficulty taking care of business against previously undefeated Belgium, 21-6, and then defeated winless Andorra 22-5 on Aug. 22, to finish as the competition’s lone undefeated team and secure its status as the top team in Group B.
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