2011 USA Basketball Women's World University Games Team Features
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2011 USA Basketball World University Games Team Features |
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Most people look at a cross-country flight as a long travel day. That doesn’t even come close to what the 2011 USA Basketball World University Games Teams did over almost a 30-hour span. Story |
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The old cliché that you don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone rang strikingly true for Elena Delle Donne, not once, but twice during her first year of college.It wasn’t until she left the two things she loved most that she realized how much a part of her they were and how much she needed them. Story |
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Jacki Gemelos is a name that was on every team’s radar five years ago, being the No. 1 high school prospect in 2006. But after five knee surgeries and nearly four years of not playing, she is just now reaching her full potential, trying to make the most out of her final opportunities. Story |
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Odyssey Sims has had quite a basketball journey since picking up the ball for the first time at age five. She went from starting in AAU to a high school All-American and the Full Court Press 2011 National Freshman of the Year. Next up on her journey through the hoops world is a trip to China.. Story |
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When Lynetta Kizer leaves with her USA teammates for Shenzhen, China, next week to compete in the 2011 World University Games, she will be one of five players on this year’s U.S. roster who knows what it feels like to win a gold medal. Kizer competed with USA Basketball in the 2008 FIBA Americas U18 Championship, averaging 8.6 ppg. and 4.0 rpg. for the 5-0 Americans, and admitted the thrill of winning gold was the most memorable moment of her life. Story |
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The final roster for the 2011 USA Basketball Women’s World University Games team is chock full of talent, with multiple NCAA Final Fours and multiple All-America honors found up and down the list of 12 players who will represent their country Aug. 14-21 in Shenzhen, China, but the two with the most international experience, Skylar Diggins and Nnemkadi Ogwumike, will prove invaluable to the team's quest for gold. Story |
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Natalie Novosel, an incoming senior at Notre Dame and member of the 2011 USA World University Games team, says it was always her choice whether or not she wanted to play basketball. Really, though, she had no choice. She was born to love and excel at the sport. Story |
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More than two months have passed since the 14 finalists for the 2011 USA Women’s World University Games roster were announced, which seems like forever for a group of young athletes who are eager to take the next step in preparing for a gold medal.The time has finally come, though, as training camp began on Sunday. Story |
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As they are at Stanford, Nneka and her sister Chiney Ogwumike are on the floor together in this week's 2011 USA Basketball Women's World University Games Team Trials at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo., where 35 of the nation's top college athletes are vying for just 12 roster spots. Story |
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Keisha Hampton may not be among the two NCAA Champions on the floor in this evening's first trials session for the 2011 USA Basketball Women's World University Games Team, or one of the two-time USA gold medal winners, but no matter, like all of the 35 participants in this year's trails, the 6-2 forward from DePaul has compiled her own long list of impressive accomplishments. Story |
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