Alleyne Earns USA Basketball Invite
EUGENE, Ore. - Oregon junior forward Jillian Alleyne has accepted an invitation to attend the 2015 USA Basketball Women’s Pan American Games and World University Games Team Trials, the organization announced Wednesday.
The team trials will take place May 14-17 at the United States Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo. The USA Basketball Women’s Junior National Team Committee issued the invitations.
This is the second time Alleyne will compete for a roster spot with USA Basketball. She was invited to the U19 team trials after her freshman year but was not selected for the final roster.
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.
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. A total of 54 players were invited to the team trials.
“We have more than enough talent to field two teams from among this group,” said Jim Foster, chair of the USA Basketball Junior National Team Committee and head coach at UT-Chattanooga. “It will be a very competitive trials as there are a number of very good players with vast USA Basketball experience and a very attractive group of first-time invitees.”
PAN AMERICAN GAMES
The Pan Ams are a multi-sport event featuring teams from North, South and Central American and the Caribbean that are organized by the Pan American Sports Organization (PASO) and played every four years in the year preceding the Olympics (2015, 2019, etc.).?
WORLD UNIVERSITY GAMES
Held every other year, the World University Games is organized by the International University Sports Federation (FISU). The WUGs are a multi-sport competition open to men and women who are between the ages of 17 and 24 (born between 1/1/88 and 12/31/98), who are enrolled as a full-time college student with remaining eligibility for the 2015-16 school year. ?
