Lynx Guard Renee Montgomery Added to USA Fall Training Camp Roster
Published on September 29, 2009 under Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA)
Minnesota Lynx News Release
MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL - USA Basketball today announced that Lynx rookie guard Renee Montgomery has been added to its 19-player fall training camp roster, joining fellow Lynx teammates Seimone Augustus and Candice Wiggins on the roster. Additionally, Jennifer Gillom will be an assistant on head coach Geno Auriemma's staff through the 2010 FIBA World Championship, giving the Lynx four representatives on the training camp roster.
A 2009 WNBA All-Rookie Team selection, Montgomery was a member of the 2006 USA Basketball U20 National Team that recorded a perfect 5-0 mark to capture gold at the 2006 FIBA Americas U20 Championship for Women in Mexico City, Mexico. Montgomery averaged 6.8 ppg., while dishing a team-leading 2.2 apg., as the U.S. qualified for the 2007 FIBA U21 World Championship.
Selected by the Lynx with the fourth overall pick in the 2009 draft, Montgomery appeared in all 34 games of her first WNBA season, including nine starts, while logging 22.5 mpg. The five-foot-seven guard finished the 2009 season fifth among rookies in scoring (9.0 ppg), fourth in assists (2.1 apg) and fifth in steals (0.74 spg), while leading all first-year players in three-pointers made with 42. The Charleston, West Virginia, native shot 40.8 percent from the field, 34.7 percent from beyond the arc (fourth among rookies, 25th in the WNBA) and 83.3 percent from the free-throw line (third among rookies, 22nd in the WNBA).
The USA Basketball Women's National Team will begin training for the 2010 FIBA World Championship with a six-day training camp in Washington, D.C., which begins tomorrow, Wednesday, Sept. 30.
Following the six-day domestic training camp, selected players will travel to Ekaterinburg, Russia, where the USA will compete in the 2009 UMMC Ekaterinburg International Invitational. In addition to the Russian professional team UMMC Ekaterinburg, also competing in the tournament will be Euroleague professional teams MKB Euroleasing Sopron from Hungary and USK Praha from the Czech Republic.
As was the case over the last quadrennium, the USA team will be fluid and athletes will be added progressively to the 2009-12 USA National Team. It is expected that the official 12-member 2010 USA World Championship and 2012 U.S. Olympic teams, should the USA qualify for the Olympics, will be comprised of players from the 2009-12 USA National Team.
The USA Basketball Women's National Team will compete in the 2010 FIBA World Championship (Sept. 23 - Oct. 3 in the Czech Republic); if necessary the 2011 FIBA Americas Olympic Qualifying Tournament (dates and site TBD); and if the USA qualifies, the 2012 Summer Olympic Games (July 26-Aug. 12 in London, England), as well as additional USA training camps and exhibition games.
The USA Basketball Women's National Team Player Selection Committee is comprised of WNBA representatives Reneé Brown, Chief of Basketball Operations and Player Relations; Dan Hughes, head coach and General Manager of the San Antonio Silver Stars; and Chief Operating Officer/General Manager of the Indiana Fever Kelly Krauskopf; athlete representative and five-time Olympian Teresa Edwards; and USA Basketball Women's National Team Director Carol Callan.
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