MIAMI (USA) ¬ Following their trials at the University of South Carolina, USA basketball has chosen 13 finalists for their FIBA Women’s AmeriCup 2021 team roster. The 13 players will meet once again on the 1st of June for training camp, and the official 12-person roster will be named before leaving for San Juan, Puerto Rico.

The team has many USA Basketball gold medal players named as finalists such as Aaliyah Boston, who has won four gold medals with the USA while Naz Hillmon, Rhyne Howard and Diamond Miller all have two golds representing USA.

Haley Jones, Sedona Prince and NaLyssa Smith, who all have one gold medal playing with USA, were named as part of the final 13 players as well.

Grace Berger and Veronica Burton, who made their first appearance for USA basketball at the trials, were also named as two of the 13 players selected.

USA will be looking to defend their FIBA Women's AmeriCup 2019 title, a 6-0 run led by Dawn Staley, who will also be USA's head coach this June.

"It's safe to say that we got some of the very best college players that we had available to us, and we're looking forward to training camp and also looking forward to competing at the AmeriCup," Staley told USA basketball.

USA Basketball junior and senior national team committees, that feature names like Geno Auriemma, Kara Lawson, Curt Miller and Katie Smith, are the ones who determine not only the coaching staff for the FIBA Women's AmeriCup but also the athletes who are invited to the final camp.

Joining Staley as coaching staff are Adia Barnes and Jennifer Rizzotti, who agreed that the camp was very competitive in nature and that those who were named as finalists did so by making themselves stand out during the four-day camp.

"It was one of the most competitive trials I've been a part of," Rizzotti told USA basketball, "I'm just so impressed with the level of play of these 20 female athletes."

The FIBA Women’s AmeriCup 2021, taking place from 11 to 19 of June in San Juan, Puerto Rico, will feature ten nations: United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Venezuela.

The top four finishers from the FIBA Women’s AmeriCup 2021 will earn spots in the 2022 FIBA Women's World Cup Qualifying Tournaments, in which they will compete again for one of 12 spots in the 2022 FIBA Women's World Cup.

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