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[QUOTE="UConnCat, post: 4688281, member: 15"]
No, that was the 2015 Pan Am games that were played in Canada.  The Pan Am games are played every 4 years and include many of the same AmeriCup teams.  There was a time when the US sent professional players to the Pan Am games but beginning in 2003 Team USA's rosters have been made up of college players. The other countries typically send their senior national teams.  Brazil defeated Team USA in 2019.  The 2023 Pan Am games are in November but I'm not sure if Team USA will be participating.

Team Canada and Kia Nurse also won the AmeriCup in 2015 but the US did not participate that year.  Under the old FIBA rules, the US did not have to participate in the AmeriCup because they earned automatic berths in the Olympics and World Cups by winning those events.  FIBA rules changed beginning in 2019 and now Team USA must participate despite having earned an automatic berth for either the Olympics or World Cup.  In 2019 Team USA's roster was mostly professional players, including Tina Charles and Sylvia Fowles, while in 2021 the team was exclusively college players.  Team USA won gold in both 2019 and 2021.
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