COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- Maryland volleyball rising sophomore Allegra Rivas was selected for the US Junior National Training Team, USA Volleyball announced Wednesday. 

The US Junior National Training Team, which includes the best players in the nation under the age of 20 will train in Colorado from July 6th-12th. If selected for the team, Rivas will head to Mexico immediately after to compete for Team USA. Rivas is the first Terp to ever make the team. 

The team consists of 20 players from across the country, which will be cut down to 12 to send to compete in the FIVB Women's U20 World Championship in Mexico. Rivas is one of only three liberos on the roster, joining Brooke Nuneviller (Oregon) and Sydney Petersen (Texas). 

Rivas started all 32 matches at libero as a freshman for Maryland, totaling 522 digs and ranking fourth in the Big Ten with 4.58 digs per set. The Texas native earned Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week honors three times, the most times by any Big Ten player this season, and the most times winning the Big Ten DPOW in a single season by any freshman since 2011. Rivas' 522 digs are the fifth most ever in a single season by a Maryland libero and the most by a freshman. The freshman had seven matches with over 20 digs, including three that only went three sets.

The WJNTT athletes will challenge for one of 12 roster spots onto the U.S. Women's Junior National Team (WJNT) that will participate in the 2019 FIVB Women's U20 World Championship July 12-21 in Léon Guanajuato & Aguascalientes, Mexico. The U.S. qualified for the World Championship by winning the 2018 NORCECA Women's U20 Continental Championship.

The WJNTT will hold a training camp July 6-12 at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo. The final selections for the WJNT will be made immediately before leaving for the World Championships.

Rivas is the fourth Maryland player to have a chance to play internationally this summer, with redshirt sophomore playing for the US Collegiate National Team in Japan and juniors: Jada Gardner and Erika Pritchard also going to Japan on tthe Big Ten Foreign Tour.