U19 World Champion Howard Thompkins Proud To Wear U-S-A

Las Vegas, Nev. • July 21, 2010

University of Georgia 6-10 forward Howard 'Trey' Thompkins, a member of the 2009 USA U19 World Championship Team, was asked to return this summer with the USA Select Team.

There was no hesitation, Thompkins was on board and this week joined with two of his teammates from last summer's gold medalist U19 squad to work out with the USA National Team.

USA Basketball caught up with Thompkins, who started five of the USA U19 team's nine games and averaged team second-bests of 10.6 ppg. and 5.0 rpg. in the USA's perfect 9-0 run to gold at the U19s, to find out what he thougth about going up against the 'big guys.'

Check out what he had to say in the video below!