Ali Patberg Will Replace Asia Durr on USA U19 Team

[JavaMan]

Ali Patberg Named To 2015 USA U19 World Championship Team

-- USA U19 Begins Preparing In Defense Of Title On June 30 --
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Originally named as an alternate to the 2015 USA Basketball Women’s U19 World Championship Team on May 17, 2015, incoming University of Notre Dame freshman Ali Patberg (Columbus North H.S./Columbus, Ind.) has been added to the USA U19 roster, USA Basketball today announced.

In addition to Patberg, the 2015 USA U19 World Championship Team features: Kristine Anigwe (Desert Vista H.S./Phoenix, Ariz.); Napheesa Collier (Incarnate Word Academy/O’Fallon, Mo.); Lauren Cox(Flower Mound H.S./Flower Mound, Texas); Crystal Dangerfield (Blackman H.S./Murfreesboro, Tenn.);Mariya Moore (Louisville/Richmond, Calif.); Gabbi Ortiz (Oklahoma/Racine, Wis.); Katie Lou Samuelson (Mater Dei H.S./Huntington Beach, Calif.); Azurá Stevens (Duke/Raleigh, N.C.); Shakayla Thomas (Florida State/Sylacauga, Ala.); Chatrice White (Illinois/Shelby, Neb.) and A’ja Wilson (South Carolina/Hopkins, S.C.).

“I’m really excited to start training camp,” said USA U19 and University of South Carolina head coach Dawn Staley. “We have a big feat ahead of us and the more opportunity we have to prepare, the better. I’m looking forward to working with a star-studded roster. Hopefully we can get everyone meshing sooner than later, but with experience in USA Basketball I know that everybody is willing to do their part for us to be successful.

The USA U19 squad is on a quest to capture a sixth-consecutive gold medal at the 2015 FIBA U19 World Championship, hosted from July 18-26 in Chekhov, Russia, and will train June 30-July 7 at the United States Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado, beginning with a 5 p.m. (all times listed are MDT) practice on June 30. The team will train twice a day, at 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. July 1-3. Practicing just once at 1 p.m. on July 4, the U.S. squad will practice at 8:30 a.m. and scrimmage the USA Pan American Games Team at 5 p.m. on July 5-6. The team’s final domestic practice will be at 1 p.m. on July 7, prior to departing for Europe on July 8.

Traveling to Murcia, Spain, for a round-robin tournament July 12-14 against U19 national teams from Australia, Canada and Spain, the U.S. squad will arrive in Russia July 15 for the 2015 FIBA U19 World Championship.


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[Wbbfan1]

Loss for the U19 team. I know Ali won a POY, but she's not as talented as Asia Durr.