{"id":660,"date":"2010-06-25T10:22:45","date_gmt":"2010-06-25T16:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nsr-inc.com\/\/?p=660"},"modified":"2010-06-25T10:22:45","modified_gmt":"2010-06-25T16:22:45","slug":"alexis-jones-usa-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/alexis-jones-usa-squad\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexis Jones Makes USA Junior Squad"},"content":{"rendered":"

NSR Prospect Picked to Represent USA<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

When the invitation arrived from the USA Junior National Basketball Team Committee<\/strong>, NSR <\/strong>basketball prospect, Alexis Jones<\/strong> from McArthur High in Irvine, Texas, knew she desperately wanted to make the 16U squad.\u00a0 A rising junior at McArthur, the 5\u20199\u201d guard wanted to compete with the best. \u00a0Given a chance to try out for the 16\u2019s last summer, Alexis had failed to make the team.\u00a0 This year, she vowed, would be different.<\/p>\n

At the tryouts held at the U.S. Olympic Training Center<\/strong> (USOTC) in Colorado Springs, CO, Alexis thought she was competitive with the other girls, but she was pulled aside and given the news that she would not be a candidate for the 16U team.\u00a0 Instead, Alexis was informed that she was being pulled up to compete for a spot on the 18U squad, a jump few players have ever made.<\/p>\n

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Alexis Jones is excited to represent U.S.A<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The USA Junior National Team Committee<\/strong> is chaired by Sue Donohoe<\/strong>, the NCAA\u2019s<\/strong> vice president for Division I women\u2019s basketball. \u00a0\u00a0Members of the committee itself are Joanne Boyle<\/strong> (University of California head coach), Coquese Washington<\/strong> (Penn State University head coach), Connie Yori<\/strong> (University of Nebraska head coach) and Beth Cunningham<\/strong> (1999 USA Pan American Games Team member) who is the \u201cathlete representative.\u201d<\/p>\n

From June 8-11, 27 players battled during three days of trials for the USA U18 National Team, and 36 additional athletes competed in the USA U17 World Championship Team Trials<\/strong>. \u00a0The USA Junior National Team Committee chose 16 finalists \u2013 12 from the U18 trials and four from the U17 trials \u2013 to vie amongst each other for the 12 USA U18 National Team<\/strong> roster spots over four more trials sessions, which culminated with selections which were announced Sunday, June 13.<\/p>\n

Alexis had made the 18U team and would represent her country. \u00a0\u00a0When asked to comment, Alexis said, \u201cI was surprised that they were going to let me try out for the 18s. I was real shocked but happy.\u201d<\/p>\n

The FIBA Americas U18 Championship for Women<\/strong> tournament format features eight teams divided into two preliminary round groups: \u00a0Canada, Chile, Costa Rica and Mexico in Group A; and Argentina, Brazil, Puerto Rico and the USA in Group B. \u00a0Preliminary round play will be held June 23, 24 and 25, and each team will play the other three teams in its preliminary group. \u00a0The top two finishing teams in each preliminary round group will then advance to the June 26 medal round semifinals and play for 1st-4th places. \u00a0Teams placing third and fourth in each preliminary round group will advance to the June 26 consolation semifinals and play for 5th-8th places. \u00a0The FIBA Americas U18 Championship for Women finals will be held Sunday, June 27.<\/p>\n

The top four finishing teams in this year\u2019s FIBA Americas U18 Championship will earn berths in the 2011 FIBA U19 World Championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NSR Prospect Picked to Represent USA When the invitation arrived from the USA Junior National Basketball Team Committee, NSR basketball prospect, Alexis Jones from McArthur High in Irvine, Texas, knew she desperately wanted to make the 16U squad.\u00a0 A rising junior at McArthur, the 5\u20199\u201d guard wanted to compete with the best. \u00a0Given a chance … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}