COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Duke University rising redshirt sophomore
Rebecca Greenwell is one of 54 student-athletes heading to the United States Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo., from May 14-17 for the 2015 USA Basketball Women's Pan American Games and World University Games Team Trials
Trials will be used to determine the rosters for the 2015 U.S. Pan American Women's Basketball Team and the 2015 USA Women's World University Games Team. The 12 members of each squad, or finalists for each team, will be announced on the morning of May 17.
Players eligible for the 2015 U.S. Pan American Games and USA World University Games teams must be U.S. citizens who currently are enrolled as full-time college students with remaining eligibility for the 2015-16 school year.
Greenwell, a three-time medalist with USA Basketball, is coming off an impressive season as a redshirt freshman for Duke. The 6-1 guard from Owensboro, Ky., made an immediate impact with the Blue Devils averaging 14.0 points, 5.5 rebounds, 2.1 assists and 1.9 steals as she started all 34 contests. She drained a Duke freshman record 72 three-pointers and attempted a school-record 202 treys. Greenwell hit a team-best 78.9 percent from the free throw line as well and was named to the All-ACC Academic Team as a rookie.
A two-time USA Basketball gold medalist, Greenwell led the 2012 U17 World Championship Team and the 2011 U16 National Team to gold medals in back-to-back summers. She was also a part of the 2011 3X3 Youth World Championship Team.
The University of Iowa's Lisa Bluder will lead the 2015 U.S. Pan American Women's Basketball Team, along with assistant coaches Michelle Clark-Heard of Western Kentucky University and Scott Rueck of Oregon State University.
Northwestern University head coach Joe McKeown will be head coach of the 2015 USA Women's World University Games Team, with assistant coaches Holly Warlick from the University of Tennessee and Tanya Warren from the University of Northern Iowa.
The Pan American Games and World University Games team trials will take place on the same days as the 2015 USA Women's U19 World Championship Team Trials, although at different times. Several U19 participants, because they have played a year of college basketball, are eligible for the Pan American and World University Games competitions.
The selected U.S. Pan American Women's Basketball Team players and coaches will return to Colorado on July 3 for the start of training camp and will depart for the competition in Toronto, Canada, on July 8. The 2015 Pan American Games women's basketball competition will take place July 16-20.
The selected USA players and coaches for the 2015 USA World University Games Team will return to Colorado Springs for training camp on June 18-July 2, before departing for the event. The 2015 World University Games women's basketball competition will be held July 4-13 in Gwangju, South Korea.
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