Los Angeles Sparks gamers Jantel Lavender, Nneka Ogwumike, and Odyssey Sims were picked to be part of the 2017-20 U.S.A. Basketball National Team Swimming pool which will certainly establish the 2018 USA World Mug Team. Joining them will certainly be 13 Olympic and/or FIBA World Cup gold medalists in addition to other standout WNBA gamers and collegiate 29 participants of the 2017-20 U.S.A. National Team lineup announced in December include: Seimone Augustus; Sue Bird; Tina Charles; Layshia Clarendon; Napheesa Collier; Elena Delle Donne; Skylar Diggins-Smith; Stefanie Dolson; Asia Durr; Sylvia Fowles; Brittney Griner; Tiffany Hayes; Jantel Lavender; Jewell Loyd; Kayla McBride; Angel McCoughtry; Kelsey Mitchell; Maya Moore; Chiney Ogwumike; Nneka Ogwumike; Kelsey Plum; Katie Lou Samuelson; Odyssey Sims; Breanna Stewart; Diana Taurasi; Morgan Tuck; Lindsay Whalen; Courtney Williams; and A'ja , in proceeding its prep work for the 2018 FIBA Globe Mug of Basketball and future USA Basketball Women's National Team events, readily available participants of the United States swimming pool will take part in a minicamp Feb. 9-11, 2018, at the College of South Carolina. It will certainly note the second camp under the instructions of Dawn Staley Sparks Store, 2017-20 U.S.A. Basketball Women's National Team and South Carolina head train."I'm incredibly pleased with the pool of players that compose the 29 and the different experiences that they bring to the group, " claimed Staley, whose Gamecocks presently are 9-1 and rated No. 4/5 nationally. "I'm looking onward to placing my stamp on this training school, because it's new, it's different. Yet, you can offer the 29 members of the swimming pool anything to run, and they're going to make you look good. We simply need to get together to create some chemistry. Much of us have actually been together and collaborated, simply not in this capacity. So, anytime we can obtain the U.S.A. National Team with each other and help a couple of days, it's only going to benefit us over time."Anytime you can construct the most effective players in our nation with each other in one location, it always is an incredible thing. I assume USA Basketball has actually done an excellent job of making things hassle-free for everyone in bringing people together in a location in which, I believe every person that comes will certainly be happily stunned at what Columbia needs to provide and what our university needs to use. It's a significant time that will be spent intelligently, and it'll be satisfying.""This is a very skilled group, from four-time Olympians Sue Bird and Diana Taurasi, to the more youthful players who are intending to contend in their very first U.S.A. National Team competitors, " claimed Carol Callan, USA Basketball Women's National Team supervisor and chair of the U.S.A. Female's National Group Player Option Committee. "As we looked towards the future, the board first had to check out the past. We acknowledged that what has actually made the United States National Team program such a definite success over the previous two years was the means our groups have perfectly mixed young people with experienced management. And due to that, we desired to make certain we proceeded with that said recipe in constructing a group. We can't claim adequate concerning the veterans. We win simply because our best gamers wish to play over and over once more."We are happy to be able to make use of this time around, and I wish to give thanks to the University of South Carolina for allowing us to educate there in February. USA Basketball is honored with a variety of talent, however that implies that our athletes remain in demand worldwide in various specialist leagues. But, that is also an obstacle for us in that we require to be able to find tiny pockets of time to train in order to be fully prepared to safeguard the gold medal at the 2018 FIBA World Mug in Spain. We are wishing to have the ability to get with each other for an additional minicamp prior to the start of the WNBA period, where we will certainly remain to prepare and intend to have even extra professional athletes readily available. We appreciate everyone that is able to join our training camps as we feel it's very useful to every person to come to be more knowledgeable about Dawn's style of mentoring and remain to develop on the group society that has been just one of the trademarks of our success."As held true over the past 3 quadrenniums, the 2017-20 U.S.A. National Group roster will certainly be fluid. It is anticipated that the official, 12-member 2018 U.S.A. Globe Cup and 2020 united state Olympic groups, must the USA qualify to compete in Tokyo, will certainly be consisted of players from the 2017-20 United States National USA will certainly train at 10 a.m. everyday Feb. 9-11 at the Carolina Coliseum, and the last roster of minicamp individuals will be introduced at a later participants of the 2017-20 United States squad, Collier, Durr, Kelsey Mitchell, Samuelson and Wilson, in addition to those competing skillfully in Asia, which currently includes Fowles, Loyd and Stewart, will be inaccessible to participate in the 29 professional athletes possess prior USA Basketball worldwide experience. Integrated, the professional athletes own 100 gold medals, 2 silver medals and four bronze medals in main junior and senior degree five-on-five competitions, in addition to seven gold medals in worldwide 33 occasions. The checklist of U.S.A. National Staff member is underscored by an overall of 25 Olympic and 19 FIBA World Mug gold of the athletes are Olympic champions: Bird and Taurasi are four-time Olympic gold champions; Augustus and Fowles have earned three Olympic golds apiece; Charles, McCoughtry, Moore and Whalen have captured 2 Olympic gold medals; while 2016 marked the very first Olympic gold for Delle Donne, Griner and have actually claimed FIBA Globe Mug gold: Bird listings as a four-time United States World Cup Staff member and owns three gold medals and one bronze medal at the event; Taurasi has two gold medals and one bronze medal; Charles, McCoughtry, Moore and Whalen assisted the U.S.A. catch the past two Globe Cup gold medals; Augustus has one gold medal and one bronze medal; Fowles gained gold in 2010; and Griner, Nneka Ogwumike, Sims and Stewart were members of the 2014 USA Globe Mug Team that returned home with gold USA Basketball Female Athlete of the Year recipients: Augustus, Charles, Moore, Stewart, Taurasi and WNBA MVPs: Charles, Delle Donne, Fowles, Moore, Nneka Ogwumike and Taurasi Nineteen WNBA All-Stars: Augustus, Bird, Charles, Clarendon, Delle Donne, Diggins-Smith, Dolson, Fowles, Griner, Hayes, Lavender, McBride, McCoughtry, Moore, Chiney Ogwumike, Nneka Ogwumike, Stewart, Taurasi and WNBA champs: Augustus, Bird, Fowles, Griner, Lavender, Moore, Nneka Ogwumike, Taurasi and Basketball Female's National TeamMembers of the United States Basketball Women's National Team will contend in the 2018 FIBA Globe Mug and, if the USA certifies, the 2020 Summer Season Olympic Gamings, in addition to added U.S.A. training school and event U.S. and Staley initially will certainly seek to capture the title at the 2018 FIBA Female's World Mug of Basketball, with an automatic berth to the 2020 Olympic Gamings being granted to the gold medalist. Must the U.S. not finish with the gold medal in 2018, it would certainly have two extra chances to get approved for the Olympics: the 2019 FIBA AmeriCup and the 2020 FIBA Globe Olympic Qualifying enhancement to Callan, the U.S.A. Basketball Women's National Group Player Option Board consists of three-time Olympic and two-time World Mug gold champion Katie Smith as the professional athlete agent; representing the WNBA is Connecticut Sun head trainer Curt Miller and Los Angeles Sparks general supervisor Penny Toler; and College of Connecticut head coach Geno Auriemma, who coached United States teams to gold medals at the previous two Olympics and FIBA World Cups, functions as a special Globe Mug of BasketballThe United States possesses a document nine gold medals, one silver medal and two bronze medals in FIBA Globe Cup play, while compiling an all-time 103-21 document at the occasion. In 2014, the most current World Cup, the U.S. took the gold medal, while Spain captured silver and Australia won certified for two of the 16 World Cup ports are host Spain and the U.S.A. as defending Olympic from the Africa Zone are Nigeria and Senegal; Australia, China, Japan and South Korea certified out of Asia; Argentina, Canada and Puerto Rico certified out of the Americas; while Belgium, France, Greece, Latvia and Turkey qualified out of 18th FIBA Globe Cup format will include a round-robin competition in preliminary round have fun with four groups included 4 teams each. Complying with the preliminary round, the first-place team in each group will progress straight to the quarterfinals, while the second- and third-place teams in each team will contend in quarterfinal play-in video games. Quarterfinals winners will advance to the semifinals, and the gold medal game will certainly be played on Sept. 30.