COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – USA Basketball announced Wednesday a total of 34 of the nation's top 19-and-under student-athletes, including Duke University rising sophomore
Azurá Stevens, will participate in the 2015 USA Basketball Women's U19 World Championship Team Trials from May 14-17 at the United States Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
A native of Raleigh, N.C., Stevens averaged 14.1 points, 8.2 rebounds, 1.7 assists and 1.1 steals as a rookie with the Blue Devils. The 6-5 wing received Second Team All-ACC Honors and All-ACC Freshman team accolades this past season. Stevens set Duke freshman records for field goals made (194), rebounds (271), offensive rebounds (120), double-figure scoring games (28), double-doubles (10) and double-figure rebound games (12).
South Carolina's Dawn Staley will lead the U19 World Championship Team along with assistant coaches Kim Barnes Arico of the University of Michigan and Jeff Walz of the University of Louisville.
Stevens will also be considered for the 2015 USA Pan American Games and USA World University Games teams. Trials for those two teams will take place on the same dates, but at different times, as the USA U19 World Championship Team Trials.
The USA squad, which is on a quest to capture a sixth-consecutive gold medal at the U19 Worlds, will compete in the 2015 FIBA U19 World Championship, hosted by Russia from July 18-26 in Chekhov.
The USA team will regroup for training July 1-7 at the USOTC prior to traveling to Alicante, Spain, to compete in a round-robin tournament July 11-13 against U19 national teams from Australia, Canada and Spain prior to arriving in Russia for the 2015 FIBA U19 World Championship.
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