COLORADO SPRINGS (FIBA U16 Women’s Americas Championship 2017) - USA Basketball named Carla Berube as head coach of their U16 women's national team.

Steve Gomez and Vanessa Nygaard will assist and complete the U16’s National Team Coaching Staff as selected by the USA Basketball Women’s Developmental National Team Committee and approved by the USA Basketball Board of Directors.

“I am incredibly honored and humbled to be the head coach of the 2017 USA Basketball Women’s U16 National Team,” Berube said to USA Basketball’s official webpage. “There is no greater honor as a women’s basketball coach than to represent my country as a USA Basketball coach, and I can’t wait to get out to Colorado Springs in May for the trials and training camp. I had the tremendous experience of working with our country’s most talented girls basketball players as a trials court coach in 2016, and I look forward to building upon that experience later this spring.

“I’m thrilled to be working alongside both Steve and Vanessa,” Berube said of the 2017 USA assistant coaches. “I got to know and work with Steve last year at the trials. He has a great basketball mind, has an awesome passion for the game and brings great energy to the court. Vanessa and I go way back to our AAU days and college when we battled on the court. I have followed her success at Windward over the years from across the country. She does an incredible job preparing her student athletes for college from both an athletic and academic standpoint. Steve and Vanessa have notably different coaching backgrounds, but I see remarkable similarities in their character, leadership and ability to connect with and motivate players, and I am confident in the expertise they bring to the USA Basketball coaching staff,” concluded Berube.

The trials to determine the 12-member roster for the FIBA U16 Women’s Americas Championship 2017 will take place May 25-29 at the United States Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

The FIBA U16 Women’s Americas Championship 2017 will be player from June 7-11 in Buenos Aires, Argentina and will feature the participation of Canada, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Puerto Rico, USA, Venezuela and host Argentina.

The top 4 teams of the continental championship will qualify to the FIBA U17 Women’s World Cup 2018.

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