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Nicole Alexander Spending Summer With USA Basketball
May 31, 2018 | Women's Basketball, Sports Medicine
CHAPEL HILL - Nicole Alexander, staff athletic trainer for the North Carolina women's basketball program, will spend a portion of her summer with the 2018 USA Basketball Women's U17 World Cup Team.
The USA will compete at the FIBA U17 World Cup that will be held July 21-29 at Minsk's Sport Palace and Falcon Club in Minsk, Belarus. The USA qualified for the 2018 FIBA U17 World Cup with a gold-medal finish at the 2017 FIBA Americas U16 Championship last summer.
This marks the second USA Basketball experience for Alexander in recent years. Back in 2015, she was the athletic trainer for the gold-medal winning USA Women's World University Games squad in Gwangju, South Korea.
The official, 12-member roster for the 2018 USA Basketball Women's U17 World Cup Team was announced on May 30. The selected team members will return to Colorado Springs on July 4 to resume training camp.
The USA will open preliminary round play against Italy on July 21 before facing Mali on July 22 and China on July 24. All 16 teams advance to the July 25 round of 16 and winners will advance to the July 27 quarterfinals. Medal semifinals will be held July 28 and the gold medal will be contested July 29.
In addition to host Belarus, nations competing in the 2018 FIBA U17 World Cup are: Angola, Argentina, Australia, Canada, Colombia, France, Hungary, Japan, Latvia, New Zealand and Spain.
The USA will compete at the FIBA U17 World Cup that will be held July 21-29 at Minsk's Sport Palace and Falcon Club in Minsk, Belarus. The USA qualified for the 2018 FIBA U17 World Cup with a gold-medal finish at the 2017 FIBA Americas U16 Championship last summer.
This marks the second USA Basketball experience for Alexander in recent years. Back in 2015, she was the athletic trainer for the gold-medal winning USA Women's World University Games squad in Gwangju, South Korea.
The official, 12-member roster for the 2018 USA Basketball Women's U17 World Cup Team was announced on May 30. The selected team members will return to Colorado Springs on July 4 to resume training camp.
The USA will open preliminary round play against Italy on July 21 before facing Mali on July 22 and China on July 24. All 16 teams advance to the July 25 round of 16 and winners will advance to the July 27 quarterfinals. Medal semifinals will be held July 28 and the gold medal will be contested July 29.
In addition to host Belarus, nations competing in the 2018 FIBA U17 World Cup are: Angola, Argentina, Australia, Canada, Colombia, France, Hungary, Japan, Latvia, New Zealand and Spain.
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