COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado (April 15, 2024) – USA Basketball announced today that 17 athletes are expected to participate in the 2024 USA 3×3 Women’s National Team training camp. The participants were selected by the USA Basketball 3×3 Women’s National Team Committee and will be considered for future USA 3×3 national team assignments.
The camp features athletes who bring a combination of USA Basketball (5-on-5, 3×3), professional and collegiate experience.
Participating athletes include Azana Baines, Cameron Brink, Cierra Burdick, Christina Dalce, Blake Dietrick, Allisha Gray, Dearica Hamby, Linnae Harper, Rhyne Howard, Lexie Hull, Kelsey Mitchell, Lucy Olsen, Katie Lou Samuelson, Madison Scott, Hailey Van Lith, Mikaylah Williams and Camille Zimmerman.
Training camp will feature 2020 Olympic 3×3 gold medalist Gray and all four members of the gold-medal-winning 2023 FIBA 3×3 Women’s World Cup Team, which includes Brink, Burdick, Harper and Van Lith.
USA Basketball will host training camp April 17-20 in Springfield, Massachusetts. The committee will evaluate participating athletes for national team opportunities including the 2024 USA 3×3 Women’s National Team, which will compete at the 2024 Paris Olympics; the 2024 USA 3×3 U23 Women’s National Team; and teams that will compete on the 2024 FIBA 3×3 Women’s Series.
Camp will be run by 2024 USA 3×3 National Team head coach Jennifer Rizzotti and assistant coach Tammi Reiss.
As previously announced, USA Basketball will host the opening event of the 2024 FIBA 3×3 Women’s Series from April 23-24 at the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield. The USA will have two entries to the event, with athletes being selected to participate following training camp. The event marks the first time a 3×3 Women’s Series event will be hosted in the United States since the Series’ inception in 2019.
Different than 5-on-5, 3×3 is played on a half-court with a 10-minute game clock and 12-second shot clock. Play is continuous, as teams “clear” the ball behind the 2-point line following a made basket, defensive rebound or steal. The first team to score 21 points via 1-point field goals or 2-pointers behind the arc is victorious; or if time expires then the team leading wins.
USA 3×3 Women’s National Team Camp Participant Highlights
• Baines made her USA Basketball debut at the 2023 FIBA 3×3 U23 Nations League Americas conference, helping the team qualify for the FIBA 3×3 U23 Nations League Final (finished fourth). She also played two events as a member of USA U24 on the 2023 FIBA 3×3 Women’s Series.
• Brink was named MVP of the 2023 FIBA 3×3 Women’s World Cup after helping USA to the gold medal. Brink also competed in two 2023 FIBA 3×3 Women’s Series stops as a member of USA U24, finishing second in both Montreal and Quebec. A USA Basketball participant since 2017, she also owns 5-on-5 gold medals from the 2018 FIBA U17 Women’s World Cup and 2019 FIBA U19 Women’s World Cup.
• Burdick has been a member of the USA Basketball family since 2009, with extensive 3×3 and 5-on-5 experience. Highlights include winning 3×3 gold medals at the 2023 Pan American Games, 2023 FIBA 3×3 Women’s World Cup and 2014 FIBA 3×3 Women’s World Cup. She added three 5-on-5 gold medals as a member of USA junior national teams from 2009-2011.
• Dalce made her USA Basketball debut in 2023 and won gold at the 2023 FIBA 3×3 U23 Nations League as a member of the USA U21 squad.
• Dietrick, who has played competitive 3×3 since 2016, made her USA Basketball debut in 2021 and owns gold medals from the 2023 Pan American Games and 2021 FIBA 3×3 Women’s AmeriCup. She recorded three top 3 finishes on the 2023 FIBA 3×3 Women’s Series and played in the Women’s Series Final, finishing fourth.
• Gray won the first Olympic 3×3 gold medal in 2020 in Tokyo alongside teammates Stefanie Dolson, Kelsey Plum and Jackie Young. She was the 2021 USA Basketball 3×3 Female Athlete of the Year Additionally, Gray has participated in various USA 5-on-5 senior national team training camps, exhibitions and competitions.
• Hamby made her USA Basketball debut as a member of the 2022 USA World Cup Qualifying Team (2022). In her first 3×3 experience, she was named MVP of the 2023 FIBA 3×3 Women’s AmeriCup after leading the USA to gold with averages of 6.6 ppg and 7.0 rpg.
• Harper has represented USA Basketball on a dozen teams across 5-on-5 and 3×3. The winner of six medals (four gold, one silver, one bronze), she most recently won gold at the 2023 FIBA 3×3 Women’s World Cup and finished fourth at the 2023 FIBA 3×3 Women’s Series Final.
• Howard has more extensive 5-on-5 USA Basketball experience but won a silver medal at 2019 USA Basketball 3x Nationals as a member of Drive. She is a 5-on-5 gold medalist at the 2021 FIBA Women’s AmeriCup, 2019 FIBA U19 Women’s World Cup and 2018 FIBA U18 Women’s Americas Championship. She most recently attended the April 2024 USA Women’s National Team minicamp and competed at the 2024 FIBA Women’s Olympic Qualifying Tournament in February.
• Hull began her USA Basketball career at the 2016 USA Women’s U17 National Team Trials. As a 3×3 national team member, Hull won a pair of medals in 2022 – silver at the FIBA 3×3 U23 Women’s World Cup and bronze at the FIBA 3×3 Women’s AmeriCup. She added a gold medal at the 2023 Pan American Games.
• Mitchell’s USA Basketball career began in 2016 as she has represented the country in both 3×3 and 5-on-5. Last year, Mitchell won her first gold medal at the 2023 FIBA 3×3 Women’s AmeriCup.
• Olsen, in her first year with USA Basketball, won a gold medal at the 2023 FIBA 3×3 U23 Nations League as a member of USA U21. In addition to her Nations League experience, she also competed at the 2023 FIBA 3×3 Women’s Series stop in Edmonton, placing sixth with USA U24. She was also 2019 USA Women’s U16 National Team trials participant (5-on-5).
• Samuelson has more than a decade of USA Basketball experience dating back to 2013 when she won three gold medals at the FIBA Americas 3×3 U18 Championship, FIBA 3×3 U18 World Cup and FIBA Americas U16 Championship (5-on-5). Since then, she has won four more gold medals, most recently at the 2023 FIBA 3×3 Women’s AmeriCup. Samuelson was named to the 2020 USA 3×3 Women’s Olympic Team but was unable to compete after testing positive for COVID-19.
• Scott was a member of the 2023 USA Basketball 3×3 U23 Nations League Team, which won the FIBA 3×3 Nations League Americas conference. She also appeared at three 2023 FIBA 3×3 Women’s Series stops with the USA U24 squad.
• Van Lith owns five USA Basketball gold medals in 3×3 and 5-on-5. She was a member of the quartet that won gold at the 2023 FIBA 3×3 Women’s World Cup. Also last year, she competed at the FIBA 3×3 Women’s Series stops in Montreal and Quebec, finishing second in both, and won the 3×3 U23 Nations League Americas conference.
• Williams is a three-time and reigning FIBA 3×3 U18 Women’s World Cup champion and MVP as well as two-time USA Basketball 3×3 Athlete of the Year (2023 2022). Her 5-on-5 experience also includes a gold medal at the 2022 FIBA U17 Women’s World Cup and an appearance at the 2023 Nike Hoop Summit.
• Zimmerman began her USA Basketball 3×3 career in 2021. She has a pair of FIBA 3×3 Women’s AmeriCup medals – gold in 2023 and bronze in 2022. She aided the USA to a fourth-place finish at the 2023 FIBA 3×3 Women’s Series Final.