Stanford standout Candice Wiggins (left) helped guide two USA Basketball teams to gold medal finishes this summer and was among five players added Friday to the 2007-08 USA Basketball Women’s Senior National Team. The USA Women?s Senior National Team begins training Friday at 6:00 p.m. (EDT) at John Jay College in New York to begin preparing for the 2007 FIBA Americas Championship. (Photo: Daniel Anaya)
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Sept. 7, 2007)—Five internationally experienced players, including Rebekkah Brunson (Sacramento Monarchs), Asjha Jones (Connecticut Sun), Kara Lawson (Sacramento Monarchs), Loree Moore (New York Liberty) and Candice Wiggins (Stanford University / San Diego, Calif.), have been added to the 2007-08 USA Basketball Women?s Senior National Team, USA Basketball announced today.
The USA Women?s Senior National Team begins training tonight at 6:00 p.m. (all times EDT) at John Jay College in New York to begin preparing for the 2007 FIBA Americas Championship. During the USA?s pre-FIBA Americas Championship training camp, the U.S., defending Olympic gold medalists, will take on 2006 World Championship gold medalist Australia in a pair of exhibition contests. The first will be held on Sept. 16 (1:00 p.m. EDT) in Trenton, N.J., and the squads will meet up again on Sept. 19 (7:00 p.m. EDT) at the Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, Conn.
“The USA Basketball Women?s Senior National Team Committee had kept the pool open and felt strongly about adding players to the pool,” said Committee chair Rene? Brown, WNBA chief of basketball operations and player relations. “The four WNBA players had terrific seasons and have played internationally, while Candice is one of the top collegiate players in the country. The Committee feels that each of them will make our pool stronger and our future decisions tougher.”
“These five players all add to the depth of our USA Basketball National Team pool,” said USA and Seattle Storm head coach Anne Donovan , a three-time U.S. Olympic Team member and an assistant to the 2004 U.S. Olympic Team. “Since each has a unique skill to offer, the talent on our overall roster will give the committee solid options to continue to build our Senior National Team. The four WNBA additions have all had remarkable seasons in the WNBA this summer. I am excited to see them blend with the other players competing for USA. I can?t say enough about Candice?s commitment to USA Basketball. She played six weeks this summer, including for Dawn (Staley) at the Pan Am Games, and I?m really looking forward to seeing what she can do in camp against the professional players. I think all five of them will fit into the team and style of play we?re looking for.”
The 2007-08 USA squad now lists a total of 27 players on its roster, including eight Olympic gold medalists, five World Championship gold medalists and all 12 members of the 2006 USA World Championship Team.
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