COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Maryland women’s basketball trio Lexie Brown, Brionna Jones and Shatori Walker-Kimbrough all accepted invites to the USA Basketball Women’s Pan American Games and World University Games Team Trials, which will take place May 14-17 at the United States Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
The USA Basketball Women’s Junior National Team Committee issued invitations to 54 of the best college players in the country. Trials will be used to determine the rosters for the 2015 U.S. Pan American Women’s Basketball Team and the 2015 USA Women’s World University Games Team. The 12 members of each squad, or finalists for each team, will be announced on the morning of May 17.
Maryland is one of just three schools with three players invited. Ohio State and Stanford each had three invitees.
Brown is one of 16 players invited that have won a gold medal with USA Basketball. She won gold with the U.S. Under-18 Team at the FIBA World Championships in 2012. She led the team in assists with 163 and steals with 80, while averaging 13.3 points per game. She was named to the All-Big Ten First Team and an Associated Press Third Team All-American.
This is the first USA Basketball invitation for Jones and Walker-Kimbrough. Jones led the team with 8.9 rebounds per game and shot 60.1 percent from the field (184-306) on the year to average 12.4 points per game. She was also named to the All-Big Ten First Team by the league’s media.
Walker-Kimbrough shot 51.3 percent from the field for 13.3 points per game with 5.3 rebounds and 55 steals this season as she helped the Terps to their second straight Final Four. Walker-Kimbrough was an All-Big Ten First Team honoree and made the Associated Press Honorable Mention All-America Team.
Players eligible for the 2015 U.S. Pan American Games and USA World University Games teams must be U.S. citizens who currently are enrolled as full-time college students with remaining eligibility for the 2015-16 school year.
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