Thursday, September 26, 2013

Elite Company

Current UConn women’s basketballs standouts Sr. C Stefanie Dolson, Sr. G Bria Hartley, Jr. W Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis and So. F Breanna Stewart have received and accepted an invitation from USA Basketball to attend the 2013 Women’s National Team mini-camp from October 4-6 at the Cox Pavilion practice gym on the campus of UNLV in Las Vegas. The Husky Quartet comprise 4 of the 7 collegiate players who accepted invites to this camp. They are joined by their UConn Head Coach Geno Auriemma who decided to return as USAB's Women's National Team Head Coach this month as well as former UConn Greats and Olympic Gold Medalists Sue Bird (Seattle Storm), Tina Charles (Connecticut Sun), Maya Moore (Minnesota Lynx) and Diana Taurasi (Phoenix Mercury) who are among the 33 invitees. The camp will be used to identify players for the USA National Team pool, from which the 2014 USA World Championship Team will be selected. Invitations to attend the training camp were issued by the USA Basketball Women’s National Team Player Selection Committee.

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