Cooper, Kitts Invited to USA U19 National Team Trials

COLUMBIA, S.C. –South Carolina freshmen Talaysia Cooper and Chloe Kitts are two of the 24 athletes anticipated to take part within the 2023 USA Girls’s U19 Nationwide Crew trials Might 12-15 in Colorado Springs, Colo., USA Basketball introduced at the moment. The 12-member staff chosen on the ultimate day will symbolize the U.S. within the 2023 FIBA U19 Girls’s World Cup, which is scheduled for July 15-23 in Madrid.

Cooper and Kitts are among the many eight individuals who competed their freshman yr of faculty in 2022-23. Ten others will play their freshman seasons in 2022-23, and the remaining six are within the Class of 2024. Kitts is among the many 22 individuals who’ve performed on a earlier USA Basketball staff as she helped the U.S. seize gold on the 2022 FIBA U17 Girls’s World Cup.

Cooper and Kitts have been a part of the 2023-23 Gamecock staff that completed the season with a program-record 36 wins and reached the NCAA Closing 4. South Carolina swept the SEC regular-season and match championships and have been ranked No. 1 within the AP Ballot each week of the season. Cooper noticed motion in 24 video games, averaging 8.4 minutes and contributing 2.9 factors, 1.8 rebounds and 1.3 assists per recreation. After becoming a member of the staff in December 2022, Kitts performed in 18 video games for six.9 minutes per recreation so as to add 1.6 factors and 1.6 rebounds per recreation.

The 2023 FIBA U19 Girls’s World Cup options 16 groups. Just lately FIBA introduced that the U.S. drew Group B with Chinese language Taipei, Germany and Mali.

The USA has received the gold medal on the competitors in eight of the final 9 editions, together with the final two. The occasion, now in its 15^th staging, would be the frist FIBA competitors to make use of an revolutionary glass ground courtroom.

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2023 USA Basketball Girls’s U19 Nationwide Crew Trials Roster
KK Arnold, Connecticut
Madison Booker, Texas
Sydney Bowles, Texas A&M
Essence Cody, alabama
Talaysia Cooper, South Carolina
Breya Cunningham, Arizona
Aalyah Del Rosario, LSU
Jadyn Donovan, Duke
Joyce Edwards, Camden Excessive College
Hannah Hidalgo, Notre Dame
Londynn Jones, UCLA
Chloe Kitts, South Carolina
Alyssa Latham, Syracuse
Talana Lepolo, Stanford
Cotie McMahon, Ohio State
Kiyomi McMiller, Life Middle Academy
Courtney Ogden, Stanford
Mackenly Randolph, Sierra Canyon College
Kiki Rice, UCLA
Kennedy Smith, Etiwanda Excessive College
Sarah Sturdy, Grace Christian College
Grace VanSlooten, Oregon
Juju Watkins, Southern Cal
Allie Ziebell, Neenah Hgh College